ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."
Palin asked the students to pray for the troops in Iraq, and noted that her eldest son, Track, was expected to be deployed there.
"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."
A video of the speech was posted at the Wasilla Assembly of God's Web site before finding its way on to other sites on the Internet.
Palin told graduating students of the church's School of Ministry, "What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys." As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she'd work to implement God's will from the governor's office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.
"God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.
"I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded," she added. "But really all of that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God."
Palin attended the evangelical church from the time she was a teenager until 2002, the church said in a statement posted on its Web site. She has continued to attend special conferences and meetings there. Religious conservatives have welcomed her selection as John McCain's running mate.
Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, lamented Palin's comments.
"I miss the days when pastors delivered sermons and politicians delivered political speeches," he said. "The United States is increasingly diverse religiously. The job of a president is to unify all those different people and bring them together around policy goals, not to act as a kind of national pastor and bring people to God."
The section of the church's Web site where videos of past sermons were posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the site "was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last few days."
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I have no words to describe the fear I feel about the prospect of this c*** being allowed anywhere near the vice-presidency :wtf: It pains me to say it, but are Americans really THIS dumb?
UWM
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Originally posted by HardTranceProd
are Americans really THIS dumb?
Sadly. Look who's in office now.
Meat187
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Originally posted by HardTranceProd
It pains me to say it, but are Americans really THIS dumb?
This should answer your question:
Silky Johnson
For some reason this is the first thing that came to mind:
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XaNaX
she should fire whoever wrote that speech for her because it made her sound like a complete idiot
HardTranceProd
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Originally posted by XaNaX
she should fire whoever wrote that speech for her because it made her sound like a complete idiot
really? what did she say?
Silky Johnson
Whatever she said, MC Hammer said it better, imo. Just watch the video!
Ania_xox
That isn't "beyond scary"
It's just stupid.
Furthermore, just because she's in the running for vice, we are automatically to assume that the scope of her ridiculousness stretches out among the American populace? Don't think so.
Zoso
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by HardTranceProd
It pains me to say it, but are Americans really THIS dumb?
Well, most Americans are not the kind of Christian who believes that any American military campaign is a mission from God, if that is what you mean.
HardTranceProd
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Originally posted by Ania_xox
That isn't "beyond scary"
It's just stupid.
Furthermore, just because she's in the running for vice, we are automatically to assume that the scope of her ridiculousness stretches out among the American populace? Don't think so.
Because if it didn't, would they use all these ridiculous themes to appeal to the viewers?
Somehow they have good reason to believe that America at large agrees with them.
MrJiveBoJingles
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Originally posted by HardTranceProd
Because if it didn't, would they use all these ridiculous themes to appeal to the viewers?
Somehow they have good reason to believe that America at large agrees with them.
I don't think that most Americans have a big idealistic attachment to one party or the other or to politicians. They just vote for the people that they dislike least. Trying to frame the "mission from God" sentiment as "America's opinion" is inaccurate.
