A candidate diary, a negative candidate diary. Target is the right one, John McCain. Not Obama, not Hillary. (btw, go Obama!)
Here is Mother Jones:
Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it.
I guess that would mean destroying the faith of two members of the US congress. More after the flip
This is, of course, never goint to get real media attention but i think it is important.
On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a "strong, true, consistent conservative."
And then McCain did this:
McCain, with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister a "spiritual guide."
Of course this guy doesn't like gays, abortion and activist judges. Read the article, can't really quote more than this.
I didn't lnow much about the guy so i was lazy and went to Wikipedia. No surprise, Parsley has many issues, but here is Wikipedia:
On October 3, 2004, Parsley preached a sermon titled "Uncensored: While Freedom Still Rings," which was in many ways the mission statement for the Center for Moral Clarity. In the two-part sermon, Parsley expressed opposition to the view that there is a separation of church and state in the U.S. Constitution; same-sex marriage; partial-birth abortion; hate-crimes legislation in California, Canada, and Sweden; sexual orientation themes in children's books; racism; and poverty.
Those damn Swedes. I bet he hates Mr. Squarepants too!
McCain'a supporter Hagee is anti-Catholic and an anti-semite. Now, with the help of his spiritual adviser, McCain has a trifecta!
Mother Jones:McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam