Texas Pastor Deals With Election Issue
Eliezar Bonilla, a Church of God pastor in San Antonio, Texas, was featured in an article in the San Antonio Express-News addressing crucial issues in the Hispanic community on Election Day.
(NOTE: The following article appeared in My SA News online on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. To finish reading the article, click on the link or copy and paste it in to your browser):
Boycott vote? Abundantly not, reverend says
By Veronica Flores-Paniagua
The Rev. Eliezer Bonilla will cast his ballot today with the deliberation and care of a man who’s studied the candidates and who, quite literally, will be voting his conscience. As pastor of San Antonio’s Abundant Life Church of God, it is the only path he knows. And it’s one that he advocates to his church’s 2,000 members when the subject turns to politics.
Yes, at Abundant Life, church and politics do mix, even as a large Latino clergy group is calling on Latino voters to boycott voting today for congressional candidates. U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle of Nevada would be so lucky.
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