{"id":17286,"date":"2012-07-11T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=17286"},"modified":"2012-07-12T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:25:09","slug":"take-action-email-phoenix-govt-for-jailingfining-12180-home-church-pastor-salman-contact-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/07\/take-action-email-phoenix-govt-for-jailingfining-12180-home-church-pastor-salman-contact-info.html","title":{"rendered":"TAKE ACTION: Email Phoenix Gov’t For Jailing\/Fining $12,180 Home Church Pastor Salman (contact info)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watchwoman’s Comments: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>Just remember, today it is Pastor Salman, tomorrow it could be your Pastor, and this could be you the next day! The hostility towards Christians is mounting daily and it’s mounting exponentially! The longer Obama and his crew of sodomites and Christian-haters are in power, the more evil and bolder they are becoming! If we Christians don’t take action now, tomorrow it will be too late. If you don’t like the thought of sleeping on a thin mattress cot with an open toilet in your cell, you had better take action now before you won’t be able to! Remember, the $12,180 fine and 60 days in jail is not the end. He is on probation for 3 years so anything he does will be subject to worse fines and jail time. \u25ac <\/span><\/span><\/span>Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a> \u25ac Wednesday, July 11, 2012<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Send An Email To Phoenix Arizona Government For Jailing\/Fining Home Church Pastor Michael Salman
\n<\/strong><\/a>Posted <\/strong>07\/11\/2012 | JoeClarke.Net<\/small> | <\/strong>Wed Jul 11 2012 <\/strong>by joeclarke<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/small><\/h2>\n

Pastor Michael Salman<\/a> of Phoenix, Arizona has just been sentenced to 60 days in jail and fined over $10,000 for conducting home church services with about 20 people on weekends. He did refuse to apply for “dozens” of permits in order to hold such services. If you care to do anything proactive, send the Phoenix City Government a message that you are outraged. The email addresses for the Phoenix Mayor and City council are here. Just copy and paste them in your email BCC:<\/p>\n

mayor.stanton@phoenix.gov; council.district.1@phoenix.gov; council.district.5@phoenix.gov; council.district.2@phoenix.gov; council.district.6@phoenix.gov; council.district.3@phoenix.gov; council.district.7@phoenix.gov; council.district.4@phoenix.gov; council.district.8@phoenix.gov<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Note – Depending on your email program, you might have to change the semi-colon separators ; to a comma , ]<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

SAMPLE<\/strong>
\nDear Honorable Member Of Phoenix Government:<\/p>\n

I am disgusted after reading the national reports about Phoenix, Arizona jailing and fining a Christian minister for having worship services in his home, where 30 or 40 Christians could gather, just as much as his neighbors could have regular poker parties – on their private property.<\/p>\n

According to news reports, you have demanded that Pastor Salman<\/a> apply for “dozens” of city permits before he be allowed to worship on his property. These actions performed by Phoenix – including the jailing and fining of the minister – are certainly a blemish, a stain, and shameful.<\/p>\n

(Reword to fit your own experience)<\/em> I have been to Phoenix, once, and have friends in the area, and I will avoid doing business with, or traveling to Phoenix for this outrageous action. And, I notice that you have just proudly given some sort of extra benefit to gay partners, as well as display, in your local museum, a city sponsored art exhibit titled, “Day Of The Dead” – how fitting.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Your Name
\nAddress
\nCity, State Zip
\nPhone No.<\/p>\n

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Information compiled that Watchwoman found in a Phoenix newspaper item from <\/span>Thursday, Jan 17 2008 and some additional comments:<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>Salman, is called by his neighbors, a “religious fanatic,” who believes in creation, not evolution.\u00a0 According to county records he paid $707,000 for the property that is in dispute.\u00a0 Being a pastor isn’t his full-time job.\u00a0 Salman works at a family-owned credit-card processing company; his wife, in addition to raising four kids (in 2008), is a licensed real estate agent.\u00a0 Currently, according to the most recent news item I found, from June, 2012, Salman is the owner of Mighty Mike\u2019s Burgers \u2014 as well as being an ordained pastor,<\/a> which he studied for in prison and where he got his ordination papers. <\/strong>He and his wife have been hosting Bible studies on their 4.6 acre property since 2005.\u00a0 One of Salman’s neighbors dug up his past and found that he had spent time in prison for a drive-by shooting and got his other neighbors aroused enough to sign a petition against him and offers everyone they can find information on every thing that they consider outrageous that he has ever done or said.\u00a0 In prison he was saved by the Lord Jesus Christ in his cell while in solitary confinement.\u00a0 He was no angel in prison and was accused of selling drugs.\u00a0 He was also in trouble (a misdemeanor charge) for impersonating a police officer when he dressed up like one to tell an older man to keep away from one of the children of his “parishioners” at the request of the girl’s parents — even after he had been a pastor.\u00a0 Salman wasn’t always a pastor; in fact, in my observation about him, he reminds me of having the zeal of a ministry that ministers to those in prison and who are on the streets because like the harlot in the Bible who was forgiven of so much they have an ardor far beyond the goodie-two-shoes who grew up in a church all their lives and got saved from never having committed very many sins.\u00a0 It reminds me of the type of the Nicky Cruz’s, who have been saved by the likes of the Pastor David Wilkerson’s in his ministry to New York City gang members.\u00a0 Wilkerson successfully changed through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, many gang-bangers from the wrong side of life to God’s Side of the Law that was written about in a book, “The Cross and the Switchblade,” and later a movie, starring Pat Boone<\/a> as David Wilkerson and Erik Estrada<\/a> (in his screen debut) as Nicky Cruz<\/a>.\u00a0 Cruz was a very evil gang-banger in New York City, a teen gang member whose life was transformed by Wilkerson’s ministry. The book was written in 1962 and was made into a movie in the 1970’s.\u00a0 Before Salman’s current troubles, he was a very troubled youth, a real gang banger, but after he got saved, he got on fire for the Lord and has been scrapping with the law since, but for a much different cause.\u00a0 Also, it sounds like Pastor Salman may have gotten involved with a group like the “Freemen,” because in 1994, Salman had filed paperwork claiming that he belonged to the Embassy of God. That meant, the document claimed, that he didn’t need to follow United States law.\u00a0 For the rest of the January 17, 2008\u00a0 story, go to … http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2008-01-17\/news\/michael-salman-wants-to-build-a-church-in-his-backyard-his-neighbors-aren-t-buying-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I also found this …
\nON THE INTERNET – A YEAR AFTER IT ALL STARTED – DATING BACK TO JUNE 18, 2009, WHEN THE SALMAN’S HOME AND PROPERTY WAS RAIDED!
\n\u25ac Excerpt follows by Sarah Fenske<\/a> Thursday, Jun 18 2009:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote a cover story<\/a> more than a year ago about the dispute between Salman and his neighbors. At the time, Salman publicly spoke of building a big church in his backyard; he was thinking 4,200 square feet. Petrified about the impact that such a big project could have on property values, the neighbors did whatever they could to stop him, from lobbying City Hall to hiring a lawyer.<\/p>\n

The neighbors dug up Michael Salman’s criminal history \u2014 he did time for a drive-by shooting before finding Christ while in prison \u2014 and accused him of preaching at a neighborhood park with a megaphone, aiming the speakers toward their homes. He fired back by producing witnesses who attested that Councilman Claude Mattox<\/a> had branded him a “religious zealot” at a neighborhood meeting. It was bad blood all around.<\/p>\n

Read more: http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/2009-06-18\/news\/phoenix-police-raid-a-local-pastor-s-home-for-holding-church-services\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Take Action – Because YOU might be next! – Michael and Suzanne Salman with their 6 children (2012)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Michael Salman’s Building that is sending him to jail for 60 days and a $12,000+ fine, plus 3 years probation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Salman believes in Creation, not evolution and other “outrageous” beliefs such as salvation by grace and the blood of Jesus Christ!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Michael Salman’s Neighbors, Andrea and Mike Julius, Object to a “backyard church” because it might impact their property values.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Early on, Michael Salman was threatened by Attorney Raya Tahan to sue him on behalf of his neighbors about his Bible studies with friends and family on his own 4.5 acre property.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Check out
\nPastor Michael Salman’s Ministry Home Page<\/strong>
\nHarvest Christian Fellowship<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.hcfaz.org<\/a>\/<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TOMORROW CHECK BACK WATCHWOMAN ON THE WALL BLOG FOR A VIDEO OF PASTOR SALMAN’S MESSAGE OF SALVATION IN HIS OWN WORDS<\/span>.<\/h1>\n

DECIDE FOR YOURSELF IF PASTOR SALMAN IS A FANATIC!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Related Watchwoman Links \u2013 Pastor Salman \u2013 Phoenix AZ – If links do not work, copy and paste<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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