Palin’s Reverend Wright
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This sermon, delivered at Sarah Palin’s church in August, with her in attendance, and murmuring not a word of protest nor leaving in disgust, has received negligible attention from the same media types that castigated Barack Obama mercilessly for his association with the Reverend Wright.
David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus, delivered the sermon at the Wasilla Bible Church on August 17th, in which Brickner described terrorist attacks on Israelis as God’s “judgment of unbelief” of Jews who haven’t come to Christ.
Palin’s pastor, Larry Kroon, introduced Brickner with the following words:
“He’s a leader of Jews for Jesus, a ministry that is out on the leading edge in a pressing, demanding area of witnessing and evangelism”.
A transcript of the sermon is available on the church’s website. It’s listed as “The Jerusalem Dilemma”.
Seeing beyond and beneath the Antisemitism of the sermon, to its core essence of bigotry and intolerance, brings into view the frightening crux of the matter. That a woman running for the vice-presidency of the United States can sit idly by in the face of this display demands rejection of her candidacy, and that of the man who selected her.
His judgement was worthy of a Klan leader, not an American President. Her judgement is worthy of a Klan lackey who’s called upon to do the dirty work.
Note: additionally, and somewhat suspiciously, the video, an excerpt of which was shown on CNN last night, can no longer be easily found on the internet, and the CNN site has replaced the video clip with the audio and a still of Brickner. The video will be posted as soon as it’s located. LK
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I think you’re overstating this. Here’s a blog that shows what Palin’s religious beliefs actually mean and shed more light on the situation:
http://therelevantelephant.com/blog/entry/sample
i’m confused as the post you refer to relates to developments in Palin’s religious journey up until 2002. the examples in my column above that you comment on occurred a month ago and aren’t addressed at all by your link. maybe i’m missing something. maybe i’m not. in either case, thanks for touching base. LK
This is sort of ridiculous. Now I hate Palin as a politician as much as the next person but if you are doing this to her please do the same to Obama. Besides this is no big surprise so she takes the word of the Bible very literally. This is a really really low blow man. Attack Palin for her religious views in the sense that she thinks it is God’s will to build a pipeline under Alaska. Or that she makes people pay for their own rape kits. Or any number of things but not this.