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Hagee -  Military
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- 2008
Election - "In
Rebuking Minister, McCain May Have Alienated Evangelicals."
... "The [Republican televangelist, Reverend] Rev. Rod Parsley paces the
stage, wiping his forehead and shouting to his congregation in a taped
sermon that marriage is under attack by "tortured and angry homosexuals.""
... "During another of his nationally broadcast television shows, he compares
Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan, saying that its goal is to "eliminate"
blacks. And at another service at his 12,000-member World Harvest Church
in Columbus, Ohio, he punches the air and calls Islam a "false religion"
that God has told America to destroy." ... ""We were built for battle!
We were created for conflict! We get off on warfare!" he adds."
... "Images of one of the nation's rising stars of television evangelism
are widely available on DVDs and Web sites, with sermons that are almost
certain to inflame some segment of the voting public. But in its quest
to secure support from evangelical Christians, the campaign of presumptive
[2008 Election] Republican presidential nominee John McCain did not note
a long record of inflammatory statements by Parsley and the [Republican
televangelist, Reverend] Rev. John Hagee of Texas, another TV evangelist,
until long after McCain had accepted their endorsements." ... "The move
backfired last week when clips of the ministers' sermons gained national
attention, prompting McCain to reject their support. The candidate's abrupt
turnabout brought criticism not only from secular viewers, who questioned
why he had aligned himself with controversial religious voices, but also
from evangelicals, who said he may have alienated a powerful bloc of potential
Republican voters." ... "In February, McCain appeared with Parsley to accept
his endorsement and called him a "spiritual guide."" ... "He [Parsley]
and his family reside in a 7,462-square-foot house, valued at more than
$1 million, on a 24-acre gated property." ... "In 2005, Parsley created
a voter registration organization called Reformation Ohio, telling Christians
that it was time to "lock and load" and to prepare for a "Holy Ghost invasion"
of government." (1, 2)
-By Kimberly Kindy with contributions by Alice Critics,
Meg Smith, and Madonna Lebling -WashingtonPost
 WATCH
Rod Parsley, McCain's "Spiritual Guide" who claims God wants America to
destroy Islam, and screamed, "We get off on warfare."
McCain Parsley
McCain's "Spiritual Guide"
Rod Parsley
"We get off on warfare!"
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20080321
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John
McCain
- Rod
Parsley - Racist
- Politics
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 Government
- Abortion
-  Law
-  Women
-  Parents
-  Health
-  Arizona
- Ohio
- 2008
Election - "McCain
Spiritual Guide Accused Gov't Of Enabling 'Black Genocide'."
... "Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio
-- whom [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator]
Sen. John McCain hails as a spiritual adviser -- has suggested on several
occasions that the U.S. [United States] government was complicit in facilitating
black genocide." ... "In speeches that have gone largely unnoticed, Parsley
(who is white) compares Planned Parenthood, the reproductive care and family
planning group, to the Klu Klux Klan and Nazis, and describes the American
government as enablers of murder for supporting the organization." ...
""If I were call for the sterilization or the elimination of an entire
segment of society, I'd be labeled a racists or a murderer, or at very
best a Nazi," says Parsley. "That every single year, millions of our tax
dollars are funding a national organization built upon that very goal --
their target: African Americans. That's right, the death toll: nearly fifteen
hundred African Americans a day. The shocking truth of black genocide.""
... "He goes on." ... ""Right now our own government is allowing organizations
like Planned Parenthood to legally take the innocent lives of precious
baby girls and baby boys and even footing the bill for it all with our
tax dollars, turning every single one of us into accessories to murder,"
he says. "You know who their biggest fans must be, that must be the Klu
Klux Klan, because the woman who founded this organization detested black
people.... African Americans were number one on Margaret Sanger's list.
So this 'Lady MacDeath,' as I like to call her, studied the works of Englishman
Thomas Robert Malthus, and embraced his plan of eugenics."" ... "However,
there are issues with Parsley's stats. While black populations in America
do
have higher abortion rates than white populations, there are far more
abortions among white mothers than among blacks."
-By
Sam
Stein -HuffingtonPost.com
20080317
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John
McCain
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Hagee - Rod
Parsley -
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Giuliani -  Pat
Robertson
- Terrorism
- Politics
- Military
- Religion
- Race
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- 2008
Election - Hurricane
Katrina - New
Orleans -  Louisiana
-  Oklahoma
-  US
-  Israel
- "The
difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers."
... "Ross Douthat and Ezra
Klein are arguing about whether Jeremiah Wright's statements are comparable
to those of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee's." ... "The statement
of Wright's which seems to be causing the most upset -- and it's one of
two singled out by Douthat -- is his suggestion that there is a causal
link between (a) America's constant bombings of and other interference
with Middle Eastern countries and (b) the willingness of some Middle Eastern
fanatics to attack the U.S. [United States] Ever since the 9/11 attacks,
we've been told that positing any such causal connection is a sign of vicious
anti-Americanism and that all decent people find such questions despicable.
This week we learned that no respectable person would subject his children
to a pastor who espouses such hateful ideas." ... "But the idea that America
deserves terrorist attacks and other horrendous disasters has long been
a frequently expressed view among the faction of white evangelical ministers
to whom the Republican Party is most inextricably linked. Neither Jerry
Falwell nor Pat Robertson ever retracted or denounced their view that America
provoked the 9/11 attacks by doing things to anger God. John Hagee continues
to believe that the City of New Orleans [Louisiana] got what it deserved
when Katrina drowned its residents and devastated the lives of thousands
of Americans. And [Oklahoma Republican Senator] James Inhofe -- who
happens to still be a Republican U.S. Senator -- blamed
America for the 9/11 attacks by arguing in a 2002 Senate floor speech
that "the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States
of America" because we pressured Israel to give away parts of the West
Bank." ... "John Hagee privately
visits with the highest level Middle East officials in the [Republican
President Bush] White House and afterwards pronounces that they're in agreement.
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain shares a
stage with Hagee and lavishes him with praise, as Rudy Giuliani did with
Pat Robertson. James Inhofe remains a member in good standing in the GOP
[GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] Senate Caucus. The Republican Party has
tied itself at the hip to a whole slew of "anti-American extremists" --
people who believe that the U.S. provoked the 9/11 attacks because God
wants to punish us for the evil, wicked nation we've become -- and yet
there is virtual silence about these associations." ... "Nor have the views
of televangelist Rod Parsley, one of McCain's self-proclaimed "spiritual
advisers," received a fraction of the attention generated by Wright. As
both David
Corn and Alan
Colmes, among others, have documented, Parsley espouses views at least
as extreme and radical as Wright, including his proclamation that "America
was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion
[Islam] destroyed." Unlike Wright and Obama -- for whom the former's
controversial views are found nowhere near the latter's public or private
conduct -- both George Bush and John McCain's Middle Eastern militarism
are perfectly consonant with the most maniacal and crazed views of Christian
Rapture enthusiasts such as Hagee, Parsley, Inhofe, and Robertson. Yet
the controversy created over their close ties is virtually non-existent."
... "The Republican Party long ago adopted as a central strategy aligning
itself with, and granting great influence to, the most radical, "America-hating"
white evangelical Christian ministers in the country."
-By Glenn Greenwald -Salon
20080312
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John
McCain
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Parsley - Terrorism
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- Politician
- Arizona
- Ohio
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 Arkansas
-  Huckabee
- 2008
Election - "McCain's
Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam." ... "[2008 Election
Republican Presidential Candidate and Arizona] Senator John McCain hailed
as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians
to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying
it." ... "On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati
[Ohio] with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus
[Ohio], a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat
sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and
a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before
the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner
as a "strong, true, consistent conservative." The endorsement was important
for McCain, who at the time was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge
from [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] former Arkansas
governor Mike Huckabee, a favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically
influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a key role in McCain's
effort to win this bellwether state in the general election. McCain, with
Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister
a "spiritual guide."" ... "In a chapter titled "Islam: The Deception of
Allah," Parsley warns there is a "war between Islam and Christian civilization."
He continues:"
"I cannot tell you how important it is that we understand the true nature
of Islam, that we see it for what it really is. In fact, I will tell you
this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose
until we understand our historical conflict with Islam. I know that this
statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The
fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing
this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a
generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore."
"Parsley
claims that Islam is an "anti-Christ religion" predicated on "deception."
The Muslim prophet Muhammad, he writes, "received revelations from demons
and not from the true God." And he emphasizes this point: "Allah was a
demon spirit." Parsley does not differentiate between violent Islamic extremists
and other followers of the religion:"
"There are some, of course, who will say that the violence I cite is the
exception and not the rule. I beg to differ. I will counter, respectfully,
that what some call "extremists" are instead mainstream believers who are
drawing from the well at the very heart of Islam."
"The
spirit of Islam, he maintains, is one of hostility. He asserts that the
religion "inspired" the 9/11 attacks. He bemoans the fact that in the years
after 9/11, 34,000 Americans "have become Muslim" and that there are "some
1,209 mosques" in America. Islam, he declares, is a "faith that fully intends
to conquer the world" through violence. The United States, he insists,
"has historically understood herself as a bastion against Islam," but "history
is crashing in upon us."" ... "At the end of his chapter on Islam, Parsley
asks, "Are we a Christian nation? I say yes." Without specifying what actions
should be taken to eradicate the religion, he essentially calls for a new
crusade." ... "Parsley, who refers to himself as a "Christocrat," is no
stranger to controversy. In 2007, the grassroots organization he founded,
the Center for Moral Clarity, called for prosecuting people who commit
adultery. In January, he compared Planned Parenthood to Nazis. In the past
Parsley's church has been accused of engaging in pro-Republican partisan
activities in violation of its tax-exempt status." -By
David Corn -MotherJones.com
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