So, political affiliation has become a litmus test for one's standing in the Church. If one doesn't toe the pastor's political line, one can expect to be voted out? Oh well, we shouldn't be so surprised that this type of thing would eventually happen within a system as closed as Christianity. The Christian world view refuses to accept even the possibility that there might be room for other religions in the world (except for Judaism), so why shouldn't they apply their myopic views to politics? We don't know anything about the disciples' political beliefs, I wish we did. Then we would know which ones Jesus should have kicked out. Outside of the Gospels (first 4 books of the New Testament), one doesn't read much of anything about the majority of Jesus first followers, perhaps that's because they were all discovered to be Roman sympathizers and were then booted out of the club. Mind you, I don't know about that, its only a guess........