Republican gubernatorial candidate gets support from Christian paper

[Judi Lynn]

Republican gubernatorial candidate gets support from Christian paper

By Chris Green

and Sarah Kessinger
Harris News Service

Quite an endorsement

Ken Canfield, a Republican candidate for governor, downplayed a controversy this past week over an endorsement he received from a Christian newspaper based in Newton.

Russ Jones, a publisher of The Chronicle, suggested voters support Canfield's candidacy in the Aug. 1 primary.

"I'm so compelled that this is the right decision that I would be rebelling against God not to make this recommendation," Jones wrote.

But the campaign of state Sen. Jim Barnett, R-Emporia, who also is seeking the nomination, cried foul. Jones also is Canfield's press secretary but did not disclose his ties to Canfield's campaign in the endorsement.
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http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/candidate072206.shtml

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From a Catholic website:



7/11/2006
Ken Canfield: The Christian Alternative to Sebelius
http://catholicfire.blogspot.com/2006/07/ken-canfield-christian-alternative-to.html

[msongs]

1. hitler was endorsed by christians, canfield is in good company here

"I'm so compelled that this is the right decision that I would be rebelling against God not to make this recommendation," said herr
goebbles.

while this paper and this canfield may or may not be the moral equivalent to hitler, the concept applies: doing the will of their "god" as if they were spoken to directly and commanded to do so by their god, which is the ONLY one and everyone else is going to hell when they die.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[longship]

2. The Kansas Republican Party.

I had to deal with these lunatics during my tenure as a Democratic Party officer, committeeman and delegate during the 1990's. The Kansas Republican Party is wholly and without exception a fundementalist religious cult. When I was active there in the 1990's the major county organization, the Sedgwick County Republican Party had published a monthly newsletter that read like a Jack Chick tract. Jesus was almost mentioned more than candidates. The party has been entirely taken over by lunatics who see Jesus' return as their number one goal. The county Republican party also hosted a patently religious dial-up message line called the GodArchy Line which actively advocated replacing our republic with a theocracy governed by the decalogue instead of the Bill of Rights.

This business of turning Republican party organizations into fundie cults started in Michigan in 1980 when Pat Robertson used his bottom-up organization techniques to sieze control of the Michigan's Republican party apparatus. If you remember, the result was that Robertson won a MI caucus and gave him much credibility early in the race.

Make no mistake about it. While the candidate eschews religiosity and uses only soft, secular political words and euphenisms, the people at the party level are behind the scenes praying for and actively advocating a march toward theocracy.

This is the kind of thing that has brought us to our current problems with the Republican Party. State Republican Party organizations all over the country have been turned into little theocratic entities. Their goal is nothing short of a total government take-over.

[Stargazer99]

3. It is time to pull that non-profit tax status

of the Church that endorsed the canadate.