RNC Accidentally Mocks Messianic Lutherans

[ErinBerin84]

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/rnc_accidentally_mocks_messian.php

RNC Accidentally Mocks Messianic Lutherans
30 Jul 2008 11:52 am

SPRINGFIELD, MO -- The RNC has modified a page from their "Barack Book" mock social networking site because the church they associated Obama with -- the Messiah Lutheran Church -- turned out to be a real denomination affiliated with the Missouri Synod.

The site, styled after Facebook, included a link to a real Facebook page, and next to an entry for "employer," the RNC wrote in "Messiah Lutheran Church."

No subtlety there.

But there really are Messianic Lutherans. Most of them live in Missouri. The church has branches in California and Nebraska.

Since disaffiliating from the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, McCain Obama has not formally affiliated with any other denomination.

This is a small point and a small mistake, but it's something that will make some McCain allies cringe. Here in Missouri, the political climate is poor for Republicans and McCain can't afford to alienate any evangelical group. His campaign can't afford the perception that they use evangelicals to mock Obama.

[ErinBerin84]

1. ok, I guess I'm the only one who finds this kind of funny.

[grantcart]

5. Its funny

also the comments comparing the different synods are also funny

[AllentownJake]

2. Ugh Missouri Synod

Those are the RW crazy Lutherans.

[Bettie]

3. Wisconsin Synod are even scarier

My Dh's family is Wisconsin Synod....only place I've ever come out of a Christmas serivce depressed. And that was the children's program.

[ErinBerin84]

4. yup, but any less crazy evangelicals that vote for McCain is good news to me

(not that I think this sort of story would have that effect, but you know).

[TexasObserver]

6. Damn, they're not even hiding it any more.

They've used anonymous emails to foist these things for the past 18 months, and now they're just coming out and doing it in the open.

I believe their excesses will lose, not win, the middle voters.