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lurkerwithoutAP – Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gestures during her speech at the Republican National … ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."
Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.
"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
A video of the speech was posted at the Wasilla Assembly of God's Web site before finding its way on to other sites on the Internet.
Palin told graduating students of the church's School of Ministry, "What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys." As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she'd work to implement God's will from the governor's office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.
"God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.
"I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded," she added. "But really all of that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God."
Palin attended the evangelical church from the time she was a teenager until 2002, the church said in a statement posted on its Web site. She has continued to attend special conferences and meetings there. Religious conservatives have welcomed her selection as John McCain's running mate.
The Assemblies of God, which claims nearly 3 million members, is one of the biggest Pentecostal groups in the U.S. Unlike most other Christians — including most evangelicals — Pentecostals believe in "baptism in the Holy Spirit." That can manifest itself through speaking in tongues, modern-day prophesy and faith healing. The Assemblies of God teaches that spirit baptism must be accompanied by speaking in tongues. Still, some churchgoers never have the experience.
Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, lamented Palin's comments.
"I miss the days when pastors delivered sermons and politicians delivered political speeches," he said. "The United States is increasingly diverse religiously. The job of a president is to unify all those different people and bring them together around policy goals, not to act as a kind of national pastor and bring people to God."
The section of the church's Web site where videos of past sermons were posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the site "was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last few days."
*sigh*
I like this woman's politics less and less the more that comes out. But then I'm not the target. The evangelical Christian Repbulican's where McCain was weak are. The thought that she could be that close to EVER being President just scares the hell out of me...
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."
Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.
"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
A video of the speech was posted at the Wasilla Assembly of God's Web site before finding its way on to other sites on the Internet.
Palin told graduating students of the church's School of Ministry, "What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys." As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she'd work to implement God's will from the governor's office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.
"God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.
"I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded," she added. "But really all of that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God."
Palin attended the evangelical church from the time she was a teenager until 2002, the church said in a statement posted on its Web site. She has continued to attend special conferences and meetings there. Religious conservatives have welcomed her selection as John McCain's running mate.
The Assemblies of God, which claims nearly 3 million members, is one of the biggest Pentecostal groups in the U.S. Unlike most other Christians — including most evangelicals — Pentecostals believe in "baptism in the Holy Spirit." That can manifest itself through speaking in tongues, modern-day prophesy and faith healing. The Assemblies of God teaches that spirit baptism must be accompanied by speaking in tongues. Still, some churchgoers never have the experience.
Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, lamented Palin's comments.
"I miss the days when pastors delivered sermons and politicians delivered political speeches," he said. "The United States is increasingly diverse religiously. The job of a president is to unify all those different people and bring them together around policy goals, not to act as a kind of national pastor and bring people to God."
The section of the church's Web site where videos of past sermons were posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the site "was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last few days."
*sigh*
I like this woman's politics less and less the more that comes out. But then I'm not the target. The evangelical Christian Repbulican's where McCain was weak are. The thought that she could be that close to EVER being President just scares the hell out of me...
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Amen, brother.
Date: 2008-09-04 04:36 am (UTC)And if McCain gets elected, Palin has a very real chance of stepping into the presidency in the next 4 years: Even if McCain remains free of cancer (which is highly unlikely considering his health history), the past treatments must have negatively impacted his health. He may look OK now, but he could go downhill in a *BIG* way with little or no warning.
Mind you, Obama does not thrill me (to put it mildly), but in my opinion he is definitely the lesser of two evils in this election.
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Date: 2008-09-04 04:38 am (UTC)And then when it got to the part where she mocked the idea of reading criminals their rights... well, it's just plain disturbing, especially given that the feds just arrested eight protest leaders for what basically amounts to "thought-crime".
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Date: 2008-09-04 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 05:56 pm (UTC)Transcript at http://www.adn.com/palin/story/515148.html
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Date: 2008-09-04 04:36 pm (UTC)WHAT FUCKING COUNTRY DO THEY THINK THEY'RE IN?!?!
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Date: 2008-09-04 05:59 pm (UTC)Good to see you writing again, by the way.
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Date: 2008-09-04 05:53 am (UTC)Also, I've decided to sell all your stuff for booze money...
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Date: 2008-09-04 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 02:54 pm (UTC)I'm hoping we can save enough money to move to Canada if these jerks end up getting elected. I don't want to live through 4-8 years of that.
P.S. Thought crime? OMFG. What happened to Liberty? What happened to the Enlightenment? I'm beginning to think we're living in the new Dark Ages.
If only we had some guarantee that the end of the Mayan Calendar cycle in 2012 would mean the end of this bullshit. I'm ready for the Rapture to take the radical evangelicals of all faiths off the planet, quite frankly.
Someone said to me recently that 'if they up and had nuclear armageddon, we'd have a clean slate to rebuild civilization'. He was being hopeful, in thinking one single cataclysmic event could attempt to restore the balance or redress the wrongs being committed now daily. The trouble is, you can't control which ones get wiped out - the Palins and Bushes of this world might survive, and the Dalai Lamas and Martin Luther King Jrs of this world could be obliterated.
How do we restore balance? Where do we begin?
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Date: 2008-09-04 03:34 pm (UTC)What she SHOULD be doing is praying that everyone be given the wisdom to make the right decisions. But, um, perhaps I should be telling her that...
*If you're Xtian, at least. Anyone else can go on the idea of a good reason if they want to or if it goes along with their beliefs.