Struthers Memorial Church and the practice of banning | |||
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Clearly some churches as a bottom line have an exclusion policy which applies when people have committed criminal offences or have a proven history of violence or dealing in drugs, and their continued presence in church meetings may prove a danger to members. Other than in such extreme cases, banning people from attending public meetings run by a charity is a very difficult thing to justify. There also needs to be policies in place to ensure that if it is practiced, it is done openly and with great care and concern for the person being dealt with.
Otherwise it can very easily become a convenient way for the leadership to get rid of people they find awkward or time consuming; who are only guilty of asking questions, seeing things differently from what the leaders would wish, or talking about things going on in the church that other people know they are not supposed to talk about.
As a publicly accountable Scottish charity with "the benefit of the public" in their charity objectives, we would invite the SMC leadership to answer the following questions: | |||
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