Woman asks church to repay tithes paid over 37 years

I kinda wish I could get all the money I've paid to the church [aka a preacher's salary] over the years.

clipped from religion.blogs.cnn.com Years before the nation's capital legalized same-sex marriage in March, one church in Washington, D.C., opened its doors to gay couples as part of its mission to establish an "inclusive body of Biblical believers." Pastors Christine and Dennis Wiley performed a 2007 commitment ceremony at their altar.  That action split the historically black church, prompting half of the congregation to leave. Yvonne Moore not only left Covenant Baptist, where she had worshipped for nearly 40 years: she filed a lawsuit for her weekly tithes because, as she said, "They didn't respect the members enough to listen to us." Moore said she attended the 2007 commitment ceremony and found it "totally disgusting." "I don't believe in that, I'm southern Baptist," Moore told CNN's Soledad O'Brien.  "The bible speaks against that. You cannot take that in the church." So she sued the church for a portion of the estimated $250,000 that she estimates she had paid in weekly donations over the past 37 years.