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mtf80123 Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:13 AM
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Ensign Linked To "Do-it-Yourself Exorcism" Movement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-wilson/john-ensign-linked-to-do_b_231272.html

Beyond the obvious hypocrisy inherent in GOP Senator and Promise Keepers member John Ensign's recently disclosed extramarital sexual affair, there's another notable aspect to Ensign's religious affiliations that has so far escaped public notice: exorcism.


Senator John Ensign belongs to a Pentecostal denomination, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, that promotes a new health care paradigm in which both physical and psychological maladies can be cured through the casting out of demons. In the new approach, individuals can even heal themselves by exorcising their own demons, through a process that a 2003 Associated Press story characterized as "do it yourself exorcism".
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:16 AM
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1. This crap really has gone far enough. Promise Keepers. The Family. DIY Exorcism.
We're starting to sound like medieval paranoid freaks.
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get the red out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:22 AM
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2. Agree 100%
We look at Al Quada and wonder how people live so far in the dark past because of their religion, but we might need to take a closer look around our own neighborhoods.

If it weren't for secular laws in this country I hate to think what these guys could have taken us to while Bush was in office, not that it wasn't bad enough. This is why I worry about them getting back any of their lost power at all.
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:23 AM
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3. He wasn't really having sex with that woman, they were just caught exorcising.
Edited on Tue Jul-14-09 10:23 AM by Mrs. Overall
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:24 AM
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4. OMG....
...I am sending a link on this to friends of mine who live in Las Vegas. We had dinner with them on Sunday evening in Newport Beach ~~ they were hear escaping the LV summer heat ~~ and the one made a remark wondering about what was next about Ensign. I think this may be it!

:hi: :rofl:
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:42 AM
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5. Lordy, Lordy...take them demons away...
Read this book, for Jebus' sake:

http://www.amazon.com/Psychic-Attack-Are-You-Victim/dp/0595433197
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:49 AM
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6. What year is this? Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1299? n/t
Edited on Tue Jul-14-09 10:50 AM by myrna minx
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 11:22 AM
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7. just where is ned flanders when you need him? nt
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