« on: September 15, 2008, 08:18:14 PM »
To the mainstream national press and a growing demographic increasingly known as the secularist left, Palin's appeal to Colorado Springs is something equal to a crime against the Constitution and a legal theory known as separation of church and state. A statement Palin made to her church has become fodder for alarmists, who seem to fear that bringing religious beliefs into the White House moves our country a giant step in the direction of becoming a Christian theocracy. A recent e-mail to The Gazette, from a local leader of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, warned of Palin with an opening sentence: "Can you spell T-H-E-O-C-R-A-C-Y?"
"I'm not talking about any old Theocracy. I'm talking about the big one. I'm talking about the Christian Theocracy planned over decades by devious and well-funded Christian forces painstakingly infiltrating government and corporate bodies to form the ultimate Neo-Fascist Christianity we now know as the Dominion Christian Movement," the letter stated. "And what better way to introduce this Theocracy than a charismatic woman, totally dedicated in her mortal existence to her invisible savior Jesus Christ and devoted to the narrow doctrines of her beliefs?"
In her first national interview since accepting the nomination of vice presidential candidate, ABC anchor Charlie Gibson misquoted Palin and demanded she explain the statement. Here's what Palin really said to a group of students at her former church: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, are sending (soldiers) out on a task that is from God. That is what we have to make sure that we are praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."
That's benign stuff, praying that God has a plan and that we might do right by that plan. She doesn't claim, in this statement, even to know what God's plan might be.
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Certainly no one should feel inclined to agree with them, but if Palin is too religiously extreme for public office, how do we explain Washington, Kennedy, Carter, Clinton and Reagan?
"It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
"Let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own." - John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1961
"Let us teach our children that the God of comfort is also the God of righteousness. Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind. Justice will Prevail." - Bill Clinton, April 23, 1985, after the Oklahoma City bombing
"Those who are lost now belong to God. Some day we will be with them." - Clinton, April 23, 1985, Oklahoma City
"You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected a conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other." - Jimmy Carter, Atlanta, June 16, 1978
"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged." - Ronald Reagan
http://www.gazette.com/opinion/palin_40511___article.html/christian_plan.html
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