(Patriot) Pastor’s Holocaust analogy irks Jewish leaders

[MelissaB]

http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2006/01/27/news/local/pastor0127.txt

I'm not even going to post part of this. Please read it to see how low these guys will go.

[xchrom]

1. paul hackett must really piss this idiot off.

and to think there is any debate that the repuke party is full of fanatics.

[MelissaB]

3. I'll bet he does. This is what they are dealing with.

Parsley doesn't preach for politicians

by Letter to the Editor

I am writing in response to The Post's "Thou Shalt Not" editorial on Monday. I understand that a lot of your opinions on different issues (the war, Iraq, politicians, and etc.) come from ignorance of the truth.

But this editorial hit home for me because I am a member of the World Harvest Church. I can say from experience - unlike The Post, which talks from speculation - that my pastor, Rod Parsley, only preaches one thing from the pulpit, and that is Jesus Christ.

He doesn't endorse any candidate. Also, Mayor Michael Coleman spoke at our church, and he is a Democrat. Everyone is welcome at our church regardless of political preference. I think it is ridiculous that if a Republican comes to speak, then all of the sudden that church is violating laws and pushing the campaign for Republicans.

What about all the churches that John Kerry spoke in? Or more recently, Hillary Clinton?

People with no moral values are welcome to speak in a church. I just think they are smarter than that and would reject an invitation to lose more voters by parading their lack of morals in front of Bible-believing Christians.

I was there when Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell spoke. There wasn't even a hint of political campaigning. No one will ever shut him up. Ever. Not even 30 men who call themselves pastors.

Pastor Parsley will always preach that there is a heaven and there is a hell, homosexuality is an abomination and abortion is murder. If there are certain candidates who believe the same thing they will get the Christians' vote whether or not they ever step foot in a church.

By the way, the separation of church and state is not a base ideal for the United States. It was a catchy phrase in a closing argument of a court case, and people quote it now as if it were a part of the U.S. Constitution.


Link: http://thepost.baker.ohiou.edu/E.php?article=E6&date=012606

[xchrom]

9. these religous fanatics have an endless well

of hate and a marked foothold in unreality.

it is not far fetched to draw analogies between them and osama.

[Fenris]

2. That analogy is not only offensive, it makes little sense as well.

[madmom]

4. unfortunately the relies ohio will eat this all up...the ones I know

cannot think for themselves!

[Ian David]

5. Ken Blackwell? Not surprised. n/t

[MelissaB]

6. Please see today's "daily thread" for more info on Blackwell and

the Patriot Pastors.

Look under Blackwell watch: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x411232

[Ian David]

7. I'm sorry, I gotta post some of this

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As the Ten Commandments, prayer and the Bible are removed from public places, Johnson compared Christians standing on the sidelines to churchgoers appeasing the Nazis during the Holocaust, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

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Speaking to several hundred people at a Hartville, Ohio, restaurant, Johnson compared the current situation to Holocaust-era church congregations, which sang loudly to block out the sound of trains carrying crying Jews to concentration camps, the Beacon Journal said. As Johnson spoke, pictures of Hitler and Chamberlain appeared on a large screen.

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The Ohio Restoration Project sponsoring the Patriot Pastors tour intends to enlist evangelical clergy around the country to register conservative Christian voters who support Blackwell’s positions.

The effort is part of the overt political campaigning that led 31 Ohio clergy to complain last week to the IRS (See “IRS asked to investigate evangelical churches, CJN, Jan. 20). The complaint requested an investigation of Johnson’s Fairfield Christian Church near Columbus and its affiliated Ohio Restoration Project to determine if their political activities violate their tax-exempt status.

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Among the other Republican government officials in attendance at the rally were: Ohio Supreme Court Justice Terrence O’Donnell; state Sen. Tim Grendell of Chesterland, candidate for Ohio attorney general; former Ohio appeals court Judge William Batchelder of Medina; former U.S. Rep. Bob McEwen, who plans to run for Congress again this year; and Sandra O’Brien, candidate for state treasurer.

More:
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2006/01/27/news/local/pastor0127.txt

[MelissaB]

8. Thanks! I just couldn't decide what to pull from it

and was just shocked to see it. I know...why be shocked now?