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TrogL

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Thu Oct 17, 2013, 11:53 AM Oct 2013

Could somebody please explain "gifts of the spirit"? [View all]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/17/fox-friends-suggests-house-stenographer-targeted-for-bringing-message-from-god/

The host of Fox & Friends on Thursday hinted that a stenographer who interrupted a House vote on reopening the government by yelling about God and “Freemasons” was the victim of religious discrimination and she simply “saw something that didn’t seem right.”

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But on Thursday, Fox News host Steve Doocy selected an email from a viewer — who claimed to be a minister — to explain Reidy’s actions.

“It was not a mental episode, what she was doing was known as an exercise of the gifts of the spirit where she brought a warning and a message from God regarding the activity,” Doocy said the minister had written.


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