It's Sunday Morning and a 911 dispatcher receives a call from a Baptist pastor who says a former member came to church, "And we need to, um, have her out A.S.A.P."
Why was the pastor so afraid of a 71 year old church going grandma with two artificial knees and a double hip replacement? Apparently, she criticised the pastor and claimed that he didn't follow the church bylaws. She was expelled. The other members were told to shun her and the pastor had her arrested when she returned to church.
Please read this article at the Wall Street Journal Website. It provides fascinating details about disciplinary practices at some conservative Protestant churches. I'm not saying that all church discipline is wrong, but it can easily turn abusive and trample on human rights. I enjoyed reading about how that grandmother stood her ground and eventually won a moral victory against the intolerant pastor.
