Washington Post: Palin Should Address Disturbing Religious Connections

[The Night Owl]

Palin Should Address Disturbing Religious Connections
Robert S. McElvaine

Forty-eight years ago this week, John F. Kennedy appeared before the Houston Ministerial Association and a national television audience to address widespread concerns that his Catholic religion might harmfully influence the way he would preside over the United States if he won the election.

It is time for Republican Party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin -- about whose religious beliefs there are questions in many ways far more serious than those about Kennedy's Catholicism in 1960 -- to allow herself to be questioned in a similar open forum.

There is a growing body of evidence that suggests Palin is more of a religious extremist than any major party nominee for national office in memory.

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http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/09/palin_should_address_disturbin.html

[livetohike]

1. There is plenty of time to do this too

and they damn well better do it.

[CountAllVotes]

2. yes they must expose the Assembly of God!!

>> The church that seems to have had the greatest influence on the would-be vice president and could-be president is the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, where Palin was baptized and attended from the time she was 12 until 2002. She still maintains close ties with the church.

The church's senior pastor, Ed Kalnins, has said a number of things in his sermons that give pause. In 2004, he made it clear he was referring to Sen. John Kerry when he said, "If you vote for this particular person, I question your salvation. I'm sorry." Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Kalnins said that those who criticized President Bush will go to hell. "I hate criticisms towards the President, because it's like criticisms towards the pastor--it's almost like, it's not going to get you anywhere, you know, except for hell. That's what it'll get you."

Pastor Kalnins classified the 9/11 attacks and the later war in Iraq as part of a larger conflict "contending for your faith," and Palin has indicated that she sees the "War on Terror" as a holy war.

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it is a frightening cult!

Goal: Recruit as many people as possible to believe the myth and get every single thing they might happen to own besides. You now belong to them and you must complete "the mission".

Damn sight! They must know all about it already is what I think!!

:kick:

[MadMaddie]

3. Yea, how about the media grow a pair

and ask her the questions. Wait they could if she would make herself available for questioning on the morning talk shows.

[Olney Blue]

4. Her religion inspires the GOP base. This won't help anything, sadly.

[central scrutinizer]

5. they are already lost - its the independents who matter

they need to be shown how extreme she is - banning books, apocalyptic vision, etc.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Obama's beliefs have been brought into question...

Why not hers?

[intheflow]

7. That's the ten thousand dollar question.

I'm sure it's because Obama's church is so foreign to many white "Christians". :grr:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. The worst thing is,

there are still people who insist that he's a Muslim; and they insist that a Muslim would be unsuitable for the office of president.

:eyes: