Rev. Donald Moss #fundie

Rev. Donald Moss #fundie blog.nj.com

Mossa is part of a group of pastors from eight Hanover churches that is asking township officials to ban sports games on Sunday mornings.

The group, called the Hanover Township Interreligious Council, approached the township committee last month for help in "restoring sacredness to the Sabbath." The holy day, the group contends, is crucial during a time when divorce rates and substance abuse appear to be on the rise.

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Around the same time, in Prospect Park, officials enforced a ban on Sunday work and play activities for nearly a century until the early 1990s, when the American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit alleging that the law was unconstitutional because it violated the separation of church and state.

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Mossa, who now plays on the Whippany fire department softball team, said even if banning Sunday sports does not bring back churchgoers, he hopes families can at least spend a quiet day together.

"We're not against sports. We're really in favor of trying to provide a time of rest for this culture," he said. "How are you going to bring families back together?"

The township committee has asked the pastors to meet with local sports leagues to discuss the ban. A meeting date is being scheduled, Mossa said.

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We're really in favor of trying to provide a time of rest for this culture,

That's nice, force rest on the people (like I really believe that excuse anyway). They choose to sign their kids up for those sports games. They can just as easily choose not to and do not need you people taking away their free choice.

How are you going to bring families back together?

Am I crazy or aren't families who bring their kids to games and cheer them on, already together? It's been awhile since I was a kid playing sports, but I never knew anyone to just be dropped off and left there by their parents (that only happened during practice). Unless the game took place during the week, both parents were usually always there and in my experience parents who are willing to sit in the stands for their kid's stupid sports activities are the type who care enough to be involved in many different ways. You're barking up the wrong tree here. If anything you should be trying to encourage families to get their kids involved in activities, not teach them that it's good to sit on their ass, either at home or in a pew. Plus, I don't know how you envision families being together if they stay home on Sundays, but most kids without somewhere to go will lock themselves away in their rooms or sit in front of the tv/compter.

old comment by Beeblebrox

"How are you going to bring families back together?"

I would have thought having mom and dad sitting in the stands watching junior burn a line drive toward third base would have been a building block in bringing families closer together.

The holy day, the group contends, is crucial during a time when divorce rates and substance abuse appear to be on the rise.

Nothing beats sitting in a room silently, not acknowledging the other person, and feeling that knot of tension in your stomach like a clenced fist for bringing couples closer. Plus that extra rest time means more opportunities to drown one's sorrows in one's drug of choice.

This is America in the 21st century, Moss. Your assertion that compelling others to respect your religious beliefs will bring families closer together is fallacious. If you somehow manage to get a law passed that forbids sports on Sunday nothing will really change. Nature abhors a vacuum and families will find other activities to fill the void.

I guess the kids will play video games online with their friends; moms will probably go out to get a spa treatment; dads will probably get together with their buddies to watch sports on TV. All you'll accomplish is the addition of just a little more fundie horses*** to the steaming mound you've already put on our dinner plate.

A**hole.

old comment by anon

'Ya wanna see what these idiots think the sabbath ought to be, go to the library and check out Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Farmer Boy", the book she wrote about her husband's childhood. Read the chapter about Sunday in HIS household as a child. Hell read one of the books about her own childhood, "Little House in the Big Woods", where kind old Pa spanked her around age 5 or 6 for running in the house on Sunday. That ain't the kind of fucking Sunday I want these fundie dipshits legislating for the rest of us. Fuck you, if I want to shoot hoops all goddamned Sunday morning I'll do it, and I doubledogdareyou to try and stop me. '

Fuckin' A+++! I'm with you man!

And nobody should trust these fundy assholes with this - give them an inch & they'll take a mile. Next they'll want drinking banned, then driving cars banned, then...who knows? There are LONG lists of various things fundies disapprove of & would like to man - including music, dance, parties, Christmas trees, basically everything.

old comment by tmr

Now that I've thought about this a bit, I'd like to see what these fundies say after attending a church service here in Wisconsin during football season.

There are prayers offered up for the Pack. A whole group of church's in Green Bay that made their services Packer Sunday the week before the Packers played their last playoff game in January, where priests and pastors wore Packer gear and the congregation did as well. And, they all "tailgated" after services.

Separating religion from the rest of the world's activities is a sure way to limit religious participation. Allowing religion to be part of life is a sure way to allow people to continue participation.

There was even a church in Milwaukee that opened its doors and brought in a tv on the night of the playoff game and the congregation gathered to watch it together.

Somehow, I don't think these people have thought anything through. They've passed judgment and are running with it, with no clue as to what they're really asking.