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Obama Pardons a Turkey, Pastor Spares a President (Coincidence?)
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPerhaps they are fitting signs that the season of good will is at hand. President Obama pardoned a turkey, and Pastor Wiley Drake said he'd stop praying for Obama's death. Wiley, a Southern Baptist pastor from Southern California who gained notoriety (and a Secret Service visit) last June after announcing on a Fox News Radio broadcast that he was praying for Obama's death, says he has changed his mind. Now, Drake is praying for Obama to live -- so that he can be put on trial for treason and executed. "I am calling for all of God's people and prayer warriors to cease the imprecatory prayer, ...
Spew from the Right, Spew from the Left
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyThat it's a cliché makes it no less true: The victory of evil requires the apathy of good people. Americans apply a version of it to Islam all the time. Why don't the moderates speak up more? The question can be applied closer to home.A couple of particularly egregious recent examples show what it means to allow extremists to lift their legs on the stream of political and social commentary that feeds important public discourse. I have one example from the right and one from the left. ...
Politics From the Pulpit
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyOn Sunday Christian pastors from 22 states will inject presidential politics into their sermons in open defiance of a federal law that bans campaigning by nonprofit groups. The organized protest was dreamed up by the Alliance Defense Fund. The right wing legal group is hoping to trigger IRS investigations that can then be challenged in court. A poster child of the movement is Rev. Wiley S. Drake, a California minister who was targeted by the IRS for endorsing Mike Huckabee from the pulpit. Drake was eventually cleared.Drake and 32 other pastors who have signed on to the "pulpit initiative" ...
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