A British Anglican priest is encouraging his poverty stricken parishioners to go out and steal from high end stores.

In his Sunday sermon, the Rev Tim Jones told his parishioners that ‘stealing from successful shops was preferable to burglary, robbery or prostitution.’ I wonder if he knows that burglary, robbery and stealing are one and the same?

I’ve heard of black pastors asking to see W2 forms to prove that members of their congregation work enough overtime to fill the pastor’s Bentleys with gas. But for a Priest to ask his church to go out and steal? It just seems ungodly.

He told parishioners it would not break the eighth commandment ‘thou shalt not steal’ because it ‘is permissible for those who are in desperate situations to take food that they might not starve’.

‘My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift,’ he told his stunned congregation at St Lawrence and St Hilda in York.

‘I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.

‘I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices. Read More…

The police and, naturally, local business owners were not too happy with the Priest’s sermon as you can imagine.

It looks like times are as bad overseas as it is right here in the good ol’ US of A. We have a president who seems to care more about his legacy than about the 10% (really 16%) unemployment. But at least Barack Obama isn’t encouraging the poor to go out and steal.

Obama just looks the other way when Democrats like Harry Reid brazenly take bribes right under his nose! Or he pretends not to notice that the Dems health care bill is loaded with payoffs to Senators.

By the way, that health care bill goes before the Senate for a vote on Thursday. And if it passes (and the GOP’s bill is merged and signed by Obama) you will begin paying out of your noses for healthcare that doesn’t take effect until 2014 — 2 years after Obama is voted out of office. Oh, and the biggest winners will be the insurance companies.

How is that for Change?