Gulfstream: 31 July 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/us/30pastor.html

An article on the pastor of an evangelical megachurch who preaches that the church should stay out of politics has (predictably) got NY Times readers all excited: it’s currently the most emailed story on the site.

[Boyd] said he first became alarmed while visiting another megachurch’s worship service on a Fourth of July years ago. The service finished with the chorus singing “God Bless America” and a video of fighter jets flying over a hill silhouetted with crosses.

“I thought to myself, ‘What just happened? Fighter jets mixed up with the cross?’ ” he said in an interview.

(Did the church play a positive role in the civil rights movement, as a critic suggests?)