It wasn't my choice to make, but here is who I would have picked:

[IDemo]

Forrest Church, of the All Souls church in New York City,
and son of the late great Democratic senator Frank Church.

I won't give you two hours worth of sermon,
and I'm not going to tell you who to vote for.
I'm not even going to tell you that everything wrong
with this country is your fault and the result of God's responsive wrath.

I will say, with the nation mired in two seemingly endless wars
and the economy in meltdown, that this is the most important
presidential election since 1932.

Add the almost unimaginable, world-inspiring presence
of an African-American on the verge of being elected
president of the United States, and the election takes on a historic quality
unparalleled in modern memory.

With the world on a precipice and our economy in ruins,
we will be casting the most critical vote of our lifetimes.
In casting this vote, one question should rest foremost in our minds.
Which of the two candidates is most likely
to spend his first 100 days imitating Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

More -> http://blog.beliefnet.com/progressiverevival/forrest-church/2008/10/

[IndianaJones]

1. would he fairly represent the bigot perspective like Warren? If not, next. nt.

[stillcool]

8. Or the right?

[LWolf]

2. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

"God is Black.
But God is not only Black.
God is also White,
God is also a Flower.
So when a lesbian thinks of
her relationship with God,
if she practices deeply,
she can find out that
God is also Lesbian.
And God is Gay, too.
God is no less.
God is Lesbian,
and also Gay,
Black, White,
a Chrysanthemum.
And when you
discriminate against
Black or White
or Flower or Lesbian,
you discriminate
against God,
which is the basic
Goodness in you."

http://www.mccsf.org/qsangha/qtnhquotes.html

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Someone post that over at Freep Republic

But wear some stain resistant clothing so you don't get too messy when their empty heads explode :nuke:

[LWolf]

10. There's a reason I've never been there, lol. nt

[HEyHEY]

3. Farakaugn! (Spelling is not correct)

[Taverner]

4. Well if it was me it would be Rev Cecil Williams from Glide in SF

But I'm a sucker for a local hero

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Here's who I would have picked:

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Excellent Choice!

:thumbsup:

[Bucky]

11. it was totally expecting a rickroll there

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

12. There's a new RR in town:

Better than the original.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[MADem]

7. A gutsy choice would have been this pastor

http://www.umaffirm.org/news/2004stroudverdict.html

http://www.bethstroud.info/

[Critters2]

13. I would have chosen Carlton Pearson, with his gospel of inclusion.

From ucc.org:

Seven years ago, Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was a fourth-generation evangelical preacher and one of Oral Roberts' anointed; he had graduated from Oral Roberts University and served on its board of regents. He prayed with U.S. presidents, preached to 5,000 people in his home church in Tulsa, Okla., and to thousands more on television.

And then, in an interview, Pearson said that he did not believe God would consign countless souls -- or anyone, for that matter -- to hell.

In that instant, he broke ranks with those Christians who believe that unrepentant sinners will go to hell. That doctrine, called universal salvation, is an old one, but it's still not popular in some circles.

Pearson was denounced by the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops and by the Rev. Ted Haggard, who was then president of the National Association of Evangelicals. Pearson's worldwide television audience disappeared. Only a few hundred stayed in his local congregation, and he lost the building itself in foreclosure.

Today, Pearson, 54, is still a bishop. ("Once a bishop, always a bishop," he says.) He's joined the United Church of Christ, and his steadfast disciples -- maybe 1,200 of them -- meet in an Episcopal church in Tulsa.

[QC]

14. Here's an excellent choice.

Of course, some knuckledragging fundamentalist somewhere would get offended, so it won't happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1JyrWr0c6w

(This is not a rickroll.)