[Vision2020] SarahPalin's Church Speech: US Troops Sent To Do God's Will

[Ted Moffett]

Roger et. al.

For those who have missed it, here again is a link to a YouTube video of
Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska church speech, where she discusses our leaders
sending our troops to do "God's will:"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k&feature=related
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Roger, thanks for your response.

We sometimes don't agree.  But you have never resorted to personal insults
to undermine my posts.

Republican Mitt Romney was governor of one of the most "liberal" and
Democratic states, Massachusetts, with a huge budget, which he was
instrumental in managing wisely.  He is a smart businessperson.  He is far
more qualified than Sarah Palin as McCain's VP choice, but I wonder if he
was even seriously considered.  I would be much happier with him as a
Republican presidential candidate, for that matter, than McCain.  But I
think his Mormon background was a major negative as a candidate, which it
should not have been.  Yet witness Sarah Palin's disturbing statements about
US troops being sent to do "God's will," which do not appear to be seriously
negatively impacting her popularity.  As if "God" is in the business of
waging war?  This is scary thinking...

Ted Moffett

On 9/8/08, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

> Ted
> You have some good points here. You are probably right that someone who
> does not belong to a mainstream religion would not be elected. As for me I
> don't care what there religion is or if they have one. It is they basic
> philosophy and and values that I am interested in.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:45:24 -0700
> To: vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Separation Of Church And State Marginalized:
> SarahPalin's Church Speech
>
> > Respect for the separation of church and state is not an
> > essential criteria that McCain considered when choosing a vice
> presidential
> > candidate, given Sarah Palin's explicit linking of her religion and the
> > goals of government.  In fact, given the realities of US politics at this
> > time in history, any candidate for president or vice president must
> > announce, and back up by action, they are a devout Christian, or they
> will
> > have a limited chance of election.  Witness Obama's repeated insistence
> he
> > is not Muslim, his emphasis on his Christian faith, and the attacks, by
> > those wishing to undermine his campaign, that he has a Muslim background.
> >
> > Does anyone realistically think a Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Wiccan,
> Atheist
> > or Agnostic, would have a chance of election as president?  Mitt Romney
> is
> > far more qualified than McCain as CEO of the US, yet who doubts his
> Mormon
> > heritage, viewed by many Christians as questionably "Christian," was a
> > negative?  Or that any presidential candidate would choose someone
> > representing those other spiritual orientations listed, as a VP
> candidate?
> > Certainly Obama's choice of devout Catholic Joe Biden for VP supports
> this
> > theory, though I trust Biden supports the separation of church and state
> > more than it appears Palin does.
> >
> > Religion dominates the US political landscape.  It is more prejudicial
> for a
> > candidate for the presidency or VP to be other than Christian as a
> religious
> > orientation, than it is for the candidate to be of a "racial" minority,
> or
> > of the female gender. * *
> > **
> > *I suppose this is some sort of progress!*
> >
> > Religion is a dominate form of prejudice in politics.  No, I am not
> offering
> > exhaustive research at this time to back up this claim... I have offered
> > exhaustive research to this list on other issues, and it is ignored and
> > mocked by those with an irrational bias.  Nonetheless, this claim appears
> to
> > have merit.  Why else does Karl Rove tailor Republican strategy aimed at
> > earning the Christian evangelical vote, certainly a partial reason to
> choose
> > Palin?
> >
> >




> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k&feature=related

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