Matt Staver Warns Pastors, Silence is Not an Option
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Mon Jun 30, 2014 at 04:05:32 PM EST
Liberty Universities' Matt Staver, apparent new spokesman for Jerry Falwell's University, mailed out a DVD to encourage "pastors & patriots."  Matt is head of Liberty U.'s legal arm known as Liberty Counsel.  The late Jerry Falwell boasted he never went anywhere without a group of lawyers near him.  The school's social activism, once dominated by a monthly magazine, now centers on the Liberty school of law
     Matt's DVD begins with the message we need to "restore the rule of law."  This will happen when true patriot pastors take up anew what the founding pastors of the nation did.  That is engage directly in political activity.  
     The lawyer defines churches as different from other nonprofits which means they do not fit the profile of legal opinion we have always believed.  The 1992 Pierce Creek Church is a splendid example according to Matt.  This church did not actually lose its tax exemption.  In legal vernacular, Staver gave his interpretation of this law.  He says each day is a new day and the church can cease from doing unlawful things and be innocent on the next day.  In lawyer speak this means if I break the law today, tomorrow is a new beginning and I am free from consequences.
     Matt delivers the old well worn reminders about what past