Focus on the Family Guy Stuart Shepard Prays for Rain During Obama Speech

[lame54]

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Prayers for it to rain on Barack Obama?

Here we go again, another Colorado Springs FOFer trying to control the world.. or at least the weather.
Focus on the Family guy Stuart Shepard is asking people, in a video he made, to pray for rain on the day Barack Obama gives his speech in Denver during the Democratic National Convention. Shepard, a one-time TV meteorologist according to KOAA, wants it to start raining two minutes before Obama's speech starts, and he wants that rain to be so hard that it will block out network TV coverage so no one will be able to see or hear Obama's speech during the DNC.

Does this surprise me that a focus on the family guy is asking other focus on the family guys and gals to pray for rain? Not at all... You see, I know that focus on the family followers have a thing about water... because their leader does, and if their leader does, that means they do too. Because they like playing follow the leader.

Remember, it was good ole' Doc Dobson, their leader, that had a fear of Sponge Bob Squarepants a few years back. He was so afraid of SB that it made the national news.
And you know what a sponge holds... Water. And you know where Sponge Bob lives... in Water.

Need I say more...???

Note: Stuart Shepard works for citizenlink.com, which is directly connected with Focus on the Family Action, which is the political arm of the religious arm of Focus on the Family. Confused...?? So are they!

UPDATE: From the Gazette:

Focus pulls video urging prayers for rain on Obama
August 11, 2008
By MARK BARNA
THE GAZETTE
Focus on the Family Action pulled a video from its Web site today that asked people to pray for "rain of biblical proportions" during Barack Obama's Aug. 28 appearance at Invesco Field in Denver to accept the Democratic nomination for president.

Stuart Shepard, director of digital media at Focus Action, the political arm of Focus on the Family, said the video he wrote and starred in
was meant to be "mildly humorous."

But complaints from about a dozen Focus members convinced the organization to pull the video, said Tom Minnery, Focus Action vice president of public policy.

"If people took it seriously, we regret it," Minnery said Monday.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. Hey Stu, how about prayers for peace or to end hunger?

Nah, Supply Side Jesus don't care about them things.

[Make7]

2. If it doesn't rain, does that mean God is pro-choice?

Or maybe it would mean God thinks 'Focus on the Family' is run by a bunch of wackos?

God works in mysterious ways (if he is working at all).

[Bolo Boffin]

10. That would be one way of looking at it. n/t

[ihavenobias]

3. Well, at least he has his priorities straight

Ignore horrible disease (and rape, murder and molestation) for a moment.

If he's urging people to pray for rain, how about rain for places with severe droughts?

[Maureen1322]

4. Dobson=Spongebob, Falwell=Purple teletubby.

These people are such asses.

[AlinPA]

5. These morons are running the country now, after putting Bush** in office in 2004.

[Hulk]

6. What a dumb shit.

With all the pain and suffering in the world...he prays to wash out the Democratic National Convention.

Yeah...a "real christian". A real repub/fascist.

A real dumb shit.

[Butch350]

7. Stuart Shepard is a good example of..............

Why women should use birth control.

[drgonzosghost]

8. Will it take a lightning bolt vaporizing the arse

of GW in the middle of a speech for these jackholes to realize that the good lord is NOT a card carrying member of the GOP?

[Unca Jim]

9. How about a simple answer. YES! It would be wrong.

Whenever you pray for difficulty and suffering for others with hate and fear in your heart, or whenever you ask God to do something for you filled with the hubristic belief that your wants are more important than others, THAT IS TOTALLY THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT PRAYER IS SUPPOSED TO BE.

Every time I hear a televangelist speak for more than five minutes I seriously wonder if they get Christianity at all.

[boomerbust]

11. Classified Ad

Today in the local newspaper classifieds I saw an ad that read, " I believe in God so I can't vote for Barack Obama ". The fool even signed his name!

[barack the house]

12. I pray for sanity why don't they just work for their candidate?

[Wise Child]

13. These people don't "cling" to religion,

(Which, I believe that Obama foolishly referred to fence sitting Catholics in the Midwest.)

These people have been chained to religion since sometime between the 1980 and 1988 election cycles.

What a douchebag. These people will have to find an effective way to cope with a Democrat in the White House who doesn't cheat on his wife.

[Zambero]

14. Why not just ask for 40 Days & 40 Nights of it?

Or better yet, pray for the old fire & brimstone routine. Rain is, well, pretty ordinary stuff!

[knitter4democracy]

15. Yes, it would be wrong, and yes, he was serious.

That wasn't funny, and it is wrong to pray for God to hurt your enemies (he apparently hasn't read the Gospels lately).

[Seldona]

16. Would it be wrong to take away your tax status?

I sure don't think so. Why do believers in the sky fairy get to play without pay? Because they say so?

BS!

[Hulk]

18. I really like that idea.....at least a ceiling on "a church"....

That is one of the biggest shams for religious pilferring businesses today. They get the tax exempt status on acres and acres of property. That's total bullshit.

[Unca Jim]

19. A great deal of non-profit organizations...

get tax-free status. Why *shouldn't* organizations of "believers in the sky fairy"?

[enuegii]

17. Before Stuart gets too enthusiastic about has little plan,

he might try a little experiment first: let him pray in one hand, then shit in the other, and see which one fills up.

[aaronbees]

20. What a smarmy sack o' shit

That greaseball smirk is coming right off his face when Obama's elected. Can't wait.

[El Supremo]

21. I'm praying for a tornado to rip apart FOTF headquarters!

..... Just kidding!

[mzmolly]

22. Minnery made a good point at the end.

"If people took it seriously, we regret it," Minnery said Monday.

I don't take Focus on the Family seriously at all.

[madamesilverspurs]

23. What a weird pulpit

that puts forth such a bizarre substitution for "Do unto others..." Some of these folks have their haloes on waaaay too tight (kinda happens with that do-it-yourself stuff, y'know).