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Date: August 18, 2007 5:57:43 PM PDT
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Subject: The God of Hate Must Love Republicans
Who was it that said "Bless them that curse you" and forgave His
executioners on the Cross? Oh, that was the NON-Antichrist. Sorry
-- different religion than the one decribing itself as "Christian"
in the USSA.
Apparently "Christian" Republicans (an oxymoron if there ever was
one!) have taken to issuing "fatwas" like Muslim imams and "rodefs"
like Super-Orthodox rabbis, their fellow hate-filled fundamentalist
religiopaths.
Minister: Death To My Tax-Status Critics
Calif. Clergyman Condemns Those Who Complained To IRS Criticizing
His Political Endorsement of Huckabee
17 Aug 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/17/politics/main3180892.shtml
A California minister who used church stationery and an Internet
radio program to endorse former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) for
president is asking his followers to pray for the deaths of those
who filed a complaint against him with the IRS.
The Rev. Wiley S. Drake of the First Southern Baptist Church of
Buena Park, California, called for "imprecatory prayer" targeting
Barry W. Lynn, Joe Conn and Jeremy Leaming of Americans United for
Separation of Church and State.
"The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people.
But I didn't call for that, God did," said Drake, a native of
Magnolia who completed a term in June as second vice president of
the Southern Baptist Convention.
Huckabee is a Southern Baptist minister.
The Americans United for Separation of Church and State asked the
IRS to investigate whether it was proper for Drake to endorse
Huckabee. Churches that endorse candidates are subject to losing
their tax-exempt status.
Drake said in a telephone interview Thursday that the Bible calls
for imprecatory prayer when someone "attacks the church."
On his Internet show, in a news release on ChristianNewsWire, and
in an e-mail to Americans United, Drake called on others to pray
that the Americans United officials be punished.
He gave as examples of imprecatory prayer:
"Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish."
"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."
"Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg."
Americans United, a nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C.,
asked the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday to investigate
whether Drake violated federal law by endorsing the Republican
candidate on church stationery Aug. 11 and on his Internet program
Aug. 13. In a letter to the IRS, the liberal group said the
California church seemed to have "run afoul" of the tax law that
bans political campaign involvement by nonprofit groups.
A spokesman for the group said, "A prayer for death seems to be a
little harsh just for trying to get the tax laws enforced equally
and fairly."
Sing Oldham, a spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention, said
the group "exercises no ecclesiastical authority over any
individual Baptist or any local church. "Any Baptist, as an
individual, may make pronouncements which reflect his or her own
thoughts," he said.
Oldham said the convention also has no record of having discussed
or adopted any guidelines on imprecatory prayer. He said
imprecatory prayer is only mentioned in the Psalms when people
called upon God to carry out punishment that they believed was
God's to inflict.
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