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Bob, you seem really challenged when it comes to history. The lunch counter stuff was in the early 1960s, and I have had the opportunity to meet one of the leaders of the sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro. He is now a Republican activist and I have met him at a number of GOP meetings including one Beaufort County Republican convention, where he was appearing for the Frederick Douglas Foundation, a black Republican organization.

No, in 1971, the social gospel stuff was mostly welfare state promotion. Some of us in our Methodist Youth group, which was where I first encountered it, called it "socialIST gospel" in those days.

Further, religion is not inherently political, although it is a target for takeover by the left, and social gospel is one of their means to try to do so.

Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 9:31 am By: Steven P. Rader

Never make assumptions. It explains why you think trump won.

Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 9:05 am By: Big Bob

This is a totally sleazy way to run a campaign with such smears. Brinson is as dirty as Berger when he goes along with it. We do not need dishonorable people like that representing us.

Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 8:32 am By: Bubba

Social gospel in 1971. Let me guess, African Americans wanted to be served at the lunch counter?

Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 7:22 am By: Big Bob

All six of them.
Every single one of you knows a woman who has had an abortion. Lets not go overboard.

Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 7:19 am By: Big Bob

Phil Berger started off as a conservative, but he went over to the dark side soon after Roy Cooper was elected governor. Some thought Cooper must have something on Berger like an obscene photo of Berger and farm animals or something, but it is more likely that he just played upon Berger's growing greed for power and money. Cooper has not needed Democrats when he had Phil Berger to put the key items of his liberal agenda through the legislature. It is arranged so the liberal special interests that benefit from Cooper's agenda keep Berger supplied with money to keep Berger in power.

It is the old Marc Basnight system resurrected by Berger who still tries to call himself a "Republican" even when he goes so far as to publcly endorse a liberal Democrat judge as he did last election. The scheme is to try to concentrate power at the top and use special interest money to try to intimidate those who don't like it. The thought of a principled conservative leader like Mike Speciale coming to the Senate scares the crap out of Berger because he has seen what Speciale did in the House to successfully stand up to the backroom establishment.

There are conservatives in the Senate who are unhappy with the liberal Berger dictatorship, but nobody willing to put their head up and lead. As former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Speciale has the street cred to step up and do that even as a freshman senator and he has the proven backbone to do it. That is what conservatives badly need in the Senate, not another yes-man like Brinson.

Speaking of puppies, the money Berger has spent in this district would give Berger ownership of Bob Brinson if he ever got to Raleigh, and make Brinson little more than Berger's lap puppy. Brinson seems to be so anxious for a stepping stone on his ambition to run for Congress that he does not care. It is all about maximizing power and money for Berger, and Brinson is just a pawn, a useful idiot, for him.

Commented: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 6:59 am By: Rino Hunter

Sad to see Randy and Carolyn caught up in this controversy, but as a former Methodist myself, I was pleased to see the emergence of the Global Methodist Church and proud that Washington's own First Methodist joined it. I myself bailed out of the United Methodist Church back in 1971 over the "social gospel" when I went away to college. I had grown up active in the Methodist Church, and our own congregation and minister were great, but in high school I became aware of the impact of social gospel on the overall church organization. I was going to have to join a new church in a new location anyway, and due to the social gospel decided it would not be a United Methodist Church. My family was historically Lutheran from the time they settled in North Carolina in the 1740s until my parents decided to join a Methodist church many of their friends and neighbors were members of, so I researched the Lutheran Church and found way too much social gospel in its dominant branch, so I ended up joining the traditionalist Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, which met my expectations. If the Global Methodist Church had been an option in 1971, that is probably where I would have gone.

Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 7:30 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The leadership of both parties do not represent middle class citizens. On the Republican side think censored Thom Tilli$, think woke Catherine Truitt, think sell outs Berger and Moore, think corrupt State Republican Chairman Whatley, think hateful, self-serving BC Republican Party with their canceling conservatives antics.

This latest example (Tilli$ endorsing Truitt) of elitist insiders and their opportunistic friends circling the wagons is just one more situation where the GOP establishment is doubling down in their brazen opposition to grassroots citizens. These people are NOT our friends, and they DO NOT CARE what we think.

The primary election recommendations on this site are a public service for those of us that have been betrayed by these people working overtime to destroy us for their own rotten gains.

Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 5:34 pm By: Van Zant

It is good to know the basis and the facts for this story going around in our community. As always when things get told from mouth to mouth, there are embellishments, and this post gives the factual background on what did happen without those added embellishments. That gives the citizne a much better perspective on how to evaluate what the Walkers did or did not do. That link to why the Global Methodist Church borke away from the United Methodist Church was particularly useful and sheds a lot of light on the situation.

Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 11:43 am By: Victoria

Big Bob: For anyone that still supports the Idiot President at this point, I can well understand that analysis from that individual.

Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 12:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Jesus was woke, you know that right?

Commented: Monday, February 12th, 2024 @ 11:52 am By: Big Bob