Therefore, the “Information Policy Task Force” of our church states that unless and until the IPTF is able to produce standards to which blogs must conform in order to be consistent with the purpose of the church web site, no blog references will be identified on the church web site. Original Post on ysmarko.com >>

Via Church Marketing Sucks, I think this qualfies as a award of the year…

A youth pastor simply wants the church site to link to his blog.  The response from the church, translated (by me:)

Whereas we don’t trust you.

Whereas you might say something bad.

Whereas we want to be in control.

Whereas we don’t understand this new thing called the Internet.

Whereas we don’t understand that, link or no link, people will find your blog and make the connection back to us.

Whereas we fear this.

Therefore, inaction is our only action.