Wasilla Assembly of God Church and its Tax Exemption Status Bears Closer Look

[struggle4progress]

By Carol Bengle Gilbert, published Sep 03, 2008

... The Wasilla Assembly of God Church teachings are at issue because of their blatant political nature which dismisses half of the electorate as candidates for hellfire. The Huffington Post reported that Wasilla Assembly of God Church's pastor told his congregation that President Bush's critics may be banished to Hell. During the 2004 Presidential debates, the Wasilla Assembly of God Church's pastor said of John Kerry '... if you vote for this particular person, I question your salvation. I'm sorry. If every Christian will vote righteously, it would be a landslide every time."

Palin herself is in the limelight for mixing politics and religion by calling the Iraq War a task from God and suggesting that it is God's will that there be a new $30 million oil pipeline she advocated as governor. Her comments appear on a Palin church video here.

Palin's association with Wasilla Assembly of God Church and its unconventional teachings-such as the world is near its end and Alaska will be a refuge- may raise the usual questions about how a candidate's religious beliefs might influence his/her secular politics another notch or two. This questioning of a candidate's ability to separate the religious from the secular is neither new nor unique to Sarah Palin; it occurred in 1960 when John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic elected President and in 2004 when Senator Joe Lieberman, a member of the Jewish faith, entered the Presidential primaries.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1005204/wasilla_assembly_of_god_church_and.html?cat=8

[Donkeykick]

1. I think that I'll turn my house into...

a church, while preaching good things about Obama and wailing on Republicans. That way I will not have to turn in my financial gains every April 15th. (Sheesh!) :wtf:

[Greyskye]

2. off to the greatest with you

:kick: & R

[JerseygirlCT]

3. Yeah let's see if the IRS finds its way there

Or if they prefer to attack All Saints in Pasadena for the shocking horror of speaking out against war.

[tbyg52]

4. With any luck Americans United is already on it. nt