Cory Booker's minister wants to restrict voting to Christians only.

[Archae]

The more I find out about Cory Booker, the less I like about him.


Is Cory Booker's church fair game for discussion in an election? When the senior pastor endorses Booker in a video released by his senate campaign, I would say yes. David Jefferson, Jr., senior pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church in Newark, endorsed Cory Booker's candidacy in a video released by his senate campaign in early August as part of the "Voices for Cory" series. The evangelistic outreach pastor at Metropolitan Baptist is Apostle Bernard Wilks, who has led and participated in many municipal events, and is head of Transformation Newark. Wilks has called for the return of the city to Puritan Newark's guidelines allowing only "Christian believers" to vote or hold leadership roles in the city. The significance of this is not just it's shock value, but in understanding the symbiosis of the school privatization and extreme "free marketers" funding Booker, and the Religious Right leaders who redirect the frustration and anger of those most impacted by our current economic structure.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/8/13/101739/702

[CurtEastPoint]

1. apostle my butt

[joeybee12]

2. He certainly has lost his shine these past few months...

I don't know if I'd vote for him if I lived in NJ

[theHandpuppet]

3. "Apostle" Wilks connected to Ugandan genocide of gays

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/1/21/15336/6128
Movement Behind Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Bill Organizing in Newark
Bruce Wilson
Thu Jan 21, 2010 at 03:33:06 PM EST

Street by street, block by block, organized by city ward, PrayforNewark's squads of church members are walking their city, praying for residents and businesses. Launched on Martin Luther King Day in 2008, its leaders claim their effort now fields enough volunteers to pray for almost every street in the New Jersey city. Endorsed by Newark's liberal mayor, PrayforNewark would seem a blessing for any city. What could be wrong with prayer ? But the effort is directly tied to an international movement that, as detailed in my new video documentary Transforming Uganda, played a significant role in organizing and inspiring Ugandan politicians who have backed the internationally notorious "kill the gays" bill, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill currently before Uganda's parliament.

The ecumenical coalition behind PrayforNewark is led by Rev. Bernard Wilks, whose Dominion Fellowship Ministries newsletters for PrayforNewark have repeatedly called for "enemy identification" and a document on the official PrayforNewark web site touts the "Seven Mountains" program which calls upon born-again, charismatic Christians to take dominion over key societal sectors such as business, government, media and education.

Given the benign-seeming exterior of PrayforNewark, it is likely that many Newark citizens involved in the effort are not fully aware of the ideological roots of PrayforNewark, or of its links to international entities tied to the Uganda bill.

PrayforNewark was founded by Newark suburb resident Lloyd Turner, who in October 2008 spoke at an Argentina conference of the International Transformation Network (ITN), whose CEO Ed Silvoso wrote, in his 2007 book, Transformation: Change the Marketplace and You Change the World, that homosexuality is caused by demon possession and that HIV and AIDS can be cured through faith healing and prayer. According to Silvoso, the entire national police force of the Philippines is being indoctrinated in this ideology...

[hedda_foil]

7. If I'm reading this correctly, Wilkes is a Dominionist ...

They actively work toward a theocratic dictatorship, ala The Handmaid's Tale. If Booker is a follower of his beliefs, he is potentially far more dangerous than any Republican because he's charismatic, is building a heroic legend, and is being groomed for the presidency.

[theHandpuppet]

8. I think this might interest you

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/1/15/134445/911

[hedda_foil]

10. Thanks. Yes, this is all of a piece.

It's also VERY reminiscent of The Family in DC. Remember that one?

[TheKentuckian]

4. I'm more worried about Booker himself.

This is the guy that went on TV during election season to chastise the President for being too tough on the financial sector.

That is all I need to know about him.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Cory Booker's church needs to lose it's tax exempt status.

[jasond54231]

9. Amen to that, man

Actually, I'd say ALL the churches in the US should have that special privilege revoked. After all, many of them spend billions of dollars in order to promote their right wing causes.

[SummerSnow]

6. This world is fucked

[hfojvt]

11. Why post this now that the primary is over?

you couldn't have shown some interest a couple months ago? http://www.democraticunderground.com/1066212