Petitioning In Church on Ash Wednesday

I couldn't believe the woman on the phone who called to tell me that a few of the 52nd District State Representative Democratic candidates were petitioning in Church on such a Holy day as Ash Wednesday.

She said they weren't standing on the sidewalk or on the steps, but right INSIDE the church!

I had to see it with my own eyes, this just couldn't be true, so I left work on my lunch break (I work for a living, I can't petition during the day like the career politicians can) and drove past the churches that the kind woman told me about.

And lo and behold, there she (it was a woman candidate) standing inside the door soliciting people as they entered the church to worship.

I was so ashamed, that I almost crashed as I hung my head. I wasn't the only one, there was a lot of people leaving the church with red faces from embarrassment and anger for the woman candidate.

All, I could think of was that Bible story that we learned as children about Jesus upsetting tables and throwing the people out as they hawked their goods inside the church.

But, what this woman (and a man at another church) was doing, was 100 times worse.

There is no way that I would ever solicit a signature inside a church, even if it was my church, which I have attended since I was 8 years old. That is just a disgrace and a slap in the face to all good God fearing people every where.

I will be sure to say a prayer for the 2 that I saw soliciting in Church and hope that they never do that again, because there were many many upset church members today.

Not only did it cost them some votes, but I am sure it cost them a lot more in God's eyes!

Until Next time....God bless and have a Great Day!