Alaska Gov. and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin
Republican operatives who were planning on bringing the Barack Obama-Reverend Wright controversy back for the general election had better think again. As of now they have their own “candidate goes to a crazy church” problem to deal with.
From the Huffington Post:
Speaking before [her] Pentecostal church, [Republican VP candidate Sarah] Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic affair in which the United States could act out the will of the Lord.
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God,” she exhorted the congregants. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God since 1999, offers a provocative and, for some, eyebrow-raising sketch of Palin’s longtime spiritual home.
The church runs a number of ministries providing help to poor neighborhoods, care for children in need, and general community services. But Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war “contending for your faith;” and said that Jesus “operated from that position of war mode.”
Read the full story and see video of Gov. Palin and Pastor Kalnins here.
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