Another political pastor problem brewing?
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- May
- 12
As the Barack Obama-Jeremiah Wright story seems to be losing steam…
The venerable investigative magazine Mother Jones is trying to draw attention to John McCain’s “pastor problem.” No, they’re not talking about John Hagee, but another pastor, Rod Parsley.
Parsley (that’s him) is the pastor of a Pentecostal church in Columbus, Ohio, and a pretty prominent televangelist who runs the “Center for Moral Clarity.” McCain has called him a spiritual adviser and campaigned with him in February.
Mother Jones’ focus is Parsley’s comments about Islam. According to MJ:
The spirit of Islam, he maintains, is one of hostility. He asserts that the religion “inspired” the 9/11 attacks. He bemoans the fact that in the years after 9/11, 34,000 Americans “have become Muslim” and that there are “some 1,209 mosques” in America. Islam, he declares, is a “faith that fully intends to conquer the world” through violence. The United States, he insists, “has historically understood herself as a bastion against Islam,” but “history is crashing in upon us.”
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