Harvest Baptist Church Pulls Obama/Kratovil Signs

Joe - thanks for featuring us on your site. We're happy to make our facility available as a service to the public. We're trying to keep the site neutral, and the campaign workers are not getting the message.

Feel free to post these if you like. thanks again for the press.

Keith

Harvest Baptist Church

Guidelines Concerning Political Signs and Activities
July 2008


Harvest Baptist Church is a religious institution and not a political organization. While we encourage our people to vote, to be active in social causes, and to take interest in the activities of the government, we do not endorse political candidates as a church.

We exist to know Jesus Christ and to make Him known. We are primarily focused on sharing the good news that all who come to trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior can have a free gift of God's righteousness which removes guilt for sin and brings fellowship and peace with God.

We do not identify with any political party, and have no desire to create any idea in the mind of any person that we are associated with any party or candidate. To that end, we have decided to prohibit any political signs. We ask that campaign workers please respect this decision and not stake signs in our landscape, bring trailers onto our property, or park vehicles decorated with campaign material into our lot.

If there is a situation that is not covered in these guidelines, we would appreciate being consulted before a campaign makes decisions about how to promote their candidate on our property. We will apply our decisions across the board, without respect for parties or candidates. We would appreciate being consulted for clarification on our policies if that is necessary.

We respect the principle of freedom of speech, and so we welcome campaign workers to distribute literature within the bounds of the law on our property. We ask that they respect the legal limits and remain 100 feet from the entrance to the polling place. Campaign workers should not give any impression that they are associated with Harvest Baptist Church or attempt to represent the opinions or thoughts of the church.

We are glad to provide the resources which God has blessed us with here at Harvest for the good of our community and the promotion of the democracy of this great nation. We ask that all would respect our decisions in this area, as we seek to respect our political process and seek to aid it any way we can.

Sincerely,

Keith Myer

Pastor

In Him,
Keith Myer
pastorkeith@pobox.com
http://keithmyer.blogspot.com

I want everyone to know the following. While the McCain/Harris Campaign chose not to place signs at unlawful locations and the Kratovil/Obama Team did, the Elections Office contacted the McCain Headquarters and told them it was now OK to put up signs there, so they did. We then came to learn through Pastor Keith this was NOT what they had desired and they removed ALL of the Campaign Signs.

It looks as if the Elections Office needs to get their heads on straight and STOP folding to the Democrats. The rules are the rules and Frank Kratovil knows the law/rules and broke it anyway.

Thank You Pastor Keith for clearing this issue up and forwarding Salisbury News the rules for this election.