Palin Put Religious War Advocate On Alaska Suicide Prevention Council

[The Night Owl]

From Talk2Action:

Palin Put Religious War Advocate On Alaska Suicide Prevention Council
By Bruce Wilson

A Saturday, October 11, 2008 Associated Press story detailed how Alaska Governor Sarah Palin had "bonded" church and state, spending more than $13,000 dollars in state money to attend religious events and meetings with Christian pastors since Palin took office in 2006. During that period, Sarah Palin was listed, and still is, as being on the advisory board of a publicly supported Christian nonprofit which states on its tax records its mission is evangelizing and runs "Religion related - spiritual development" suicide prevention programs in Alaskan public schools.

The parent ministry of Carry the Cure, Inc., promotes a revolutionary theology of religious warfare, and exhortations to "fight for revolution" appear in Carry the Cure's exuberant, high quality music and rythm-driven public school anti-suicide presentations. In late 2007, Sarah Palin appointed the co-founder of that program to the Alaska Suicide Prevention Council...

In the year 2000, Wasilla, Alaska mayor Sarah Palin joined the advisory board of Carry the Cure, Inc., a 501(c)(3) suicide-prevention nonprofit which has received tax-exempt public and private funds for running suicide prevention programs in schools and churches but has declared, on its 2000 to 2006 federal tax returns, its organizational mission to be “Religious - Evangelism”.

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