In his sermon Sunday, Pastor Allen told the story of a FEMA photographer who asked two volunteers helping the clean up efforts after a tornado in Mississippi to remove their Salvation Army T shirts because he didn't want "anything faith-based" in the photographs. In one news report, it was revealed that the second shirt the ladies put on, which had the name of a local church, was also unacceptable to the photographer.
Eventually word got back to U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper, who happened to be a member of one of the sponsoring churches. Rep. Harper contacted FEMA administrator Craig Fugate (above), who has now apologized to the sponsoring church, the Salvation Army, and to Harper as well.
Since yesterday's blog was about the Manhattan Declaration, I'll point out that one of its tenets is that Christians should be given religious liberty (at least as much as, say, a Muslim woman wearing the head covering her faith requires). In this vein, we should congratulate the two ladies for going to the congressman to get this straightened out.
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