Spiritual politics

[Sal Atticum]

What do you think about spiritual leaders getting involved in politics?

Warroad pastor endorses McCain from pulpit
Lisa Gibson Grand Forks Herald
Published Monday, September 29, 2008
Members of the congregation at Warroad (Minn.) Community Church listened intently Sunday morning as Rev. Gus Booth told them they not only should vote for John McCain in November, but they also should campaign for him.

Booth is one of several clergy across the country to endorse a candidate from behind the pulpit on what was declared “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” by the Alliance Defense Fund.

“We need to vote for the most righteous of candidates,” Booth said Sunday. “And it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure that out. The most righteous is John McCain.”

He told members of the congregation they need to evaluate the candidates through the teachings of the Bible, focusing his sermon mainly on abortion and homosexuality, with mention of education. Homosexuality is wrong and immoral, Booth said, and Obama’s decision not to denounce neither it nor abortion is evil, wicked and an abomination, he added, and his views on homosexuality are “brain-dead.”

“Obama condones what the Bible condemns,” he said.

Booth doesn’t call himself a one-issue voter, he said. “But abortion is just that important.”

That drew shouts of “Amen” from the members of the congregation, sitting among several empty seats. And Democrats are ignorant in their Christianity, Booth added.

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David Hammond, Kennedy, Minn., letter: 'Watchdogs roll over for Obama
David Hammond, Grand Forks Herald
Published Thursday, October 02, 2008
KENNEDY, Minn. — “Watchdog group targets Warroad church, five others for endorsing McCain,” a Herald news story reports (Sept. 30).

Watchdog group indeed! Where was this hypocritical, pompous windbag, Barry Lynn, when the Revs. Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and Louis Farrakhan as well as Dennis Jacobsen, pastor of Incarnation Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, were endorsing Obama? For that matter, where was the Herald?

“Yapping cur” would be a more accurate description of Lynn’s organization.

According to the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ (www.reclaimamerica.org), the pastors mentioned have every right under the First Amendment to endorse political candidates. And I would remind Lynn and the Herald that nowhere in the Constitution does it say there is a “separation of church and state.”

The First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

It’s a disgrace that the press, which is also protected by the First Amendment, doesn’t carry out the duty for which our founding fathers intended: that of an unbiased, impartial watchdog, instead of an “in the tank” ally of Obama, a candidate whose policies are reckless and dangerous.

If all the church leaders in this country had shown the same moral courage as the six mentioned, we wouldn’t be in the liberal mess we are today.

David Hammond

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Hopefully the congregations at these churches aren't brainwashed enough to believe that all the propaganda coming down from the pulpit is divinely inspired.

No matter who your voting for, please think for yourselves people. 

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Hopefully the congregations at these churches aren't brainwashed enough to believe that all the propaganda coming down from the pulpit is divinely inspired.

No matter who your voting for, please think for yourselves people. 

I agree!  So many people simply listen to what certain people have to say and blindly follow it. Many people need to start thinking for themselves and really educate themselves on issues, from multiple points of view and sources.