Public graduations in religious buildings

[Jon Estes]

What are people so afraid of? Are we living in an over sensitive time and if so, where/how does it end?

[Sandy]

At the last SBC church I served in Houston, we hosted two public high school graduation ceremonies every year. There was a cross, with a background of illuminated stained glass in the baptistery. It was a high ceiling, and the baptistery was highly visible above the choir loft, all the way up to the peaked ceiling. There wasn't a curtain or a door closing it off. Both schools wanted us to turn on the lights and illuminate the cross during their ceremony. There was also a cross on the pulpit, which they used to make speeches. They rented the facility at the rate we quoted. We provided a sound system operator, custodial service that included opening and closing, help with parking, and with exiting the parking lots, and use of the fellowship hall for the receptions. We had hymnals and Bibles in the racks, left up all of the wall decorations and notices, and never had a problem.

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

[Dave Roberts]

I hate to say it, but my experience of late is that Todd Starnes reports anything that he thinks will upset people of faith and keep them hooked on the FOX line. We need to know what kind of contracts churches may have signed to be used in these community ways and what they are being paid. We also need to know the terms of those contracts.

[JE Pettibone]

[Dave Roberts]

[Sandy]