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You guys have to watch this sermon. It is only 22 minutes, but it is a must see!!! Please forward and get the word out for this preacher!!!

This pastor spouts vicious rumors about Sarah Palin (affairs with other men), and trashes her family values for the situation of her pregnant daughter - all from the pulpit. Is this grounds for revocation of his tax-exempt status? It seems borderline in that he doesn't advocate for a specifc candidate...also, he is from the prosperity preacher cloth with a very questionable lifestyle himself: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-md.ci.bryant16feb16,0,756929,full.story

http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1018And of course MSNBC said Wright struck a concillatory tone, I'm sure you view the following line as respectful Jeremiah Wright, “This ordinary boy just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania, legally.” Apologies if this story was posted already.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- An Ohio judge said he didn't buy a 71-year-old preacher's insistence that he never pulled a gun on a woman during a road-rage incident. Hamilton County Municipal Judge Brad Greenberg said it was unlikely April Evans would have known Thomas Howell was packing unless she had seen it with her own eyes, the Cincinnati Enquirer said Wednesday. "I think that the only reason Ms. Evans would know that (Howell) had a gun in the vehicle is that he pointed it at her," Greenberg said Monday as he declared Howell guilty. The newspaper said the two...

Heard a lot of stuff come out of the mouths of preachers this year. Encouraging criminal behavior from the pulpit is a new one.

Muslim preacher Abu Izzadeen guilty of inciting terrorism By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Last Updated: 1:54am BST 18/04/2008 An engineer has become the first white British Muslim to be convicted of terrorism offences after he was found guilty of inciting others to join a jihad in Iraq. Simon Keeler, 35, was found guilty with preacher of hate Abu Izzadeen, the Al Qaeda disciple who glorified suicide bombers and once famously heckled Home Secretary John Reid. Simon Keeler [left] and Abu Izzadeen, whose real name is Trevor Brooks, were found guilty of inciting terrorism Izzadeen, whose real name is Trevor Brooks,...

Muslim TV evangelist preaches Allah of love By Carolynne Wheeler in Cairo Last Updated: 2:46am GMT 24/02/2008 He is handsome and charismatic, and his velvety voice makes young women swoon. But his young female fans mostly wear headscarves, and while his gatherings look more fitting for a rockstar, they involve lessons from the Koran. Moez Masoud, a 29-year-old Egyptian party-goer-turned-preacher, is sweeping the Middle East with his moderate Islamic message to love not just Allah but also others - and to play a full part in the modern world. Mr Masoud provokes debate over contemporary issues His views are controversial...

LONDON - Britain's Home Office on Thursday approved the extradition of an Islamic preacher who is accused of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon, a spokesman said. Abu Hamza al-Masri was arrested on an U.S. extradition warrant in May 2004, but the process was put on hold while he stood trial in Britain and then appealed his convictions. The Home Office's approval of his extradition means the preacher could be sent to the United States within a month's time. "The Home Secretary today has signed an order approving the extradition," a Home Office spokesman said, speaking on...

There seems to always be a discussion going on about the authority of the Pope in the Catholic Church, but I have long wondered about the authority figure, government set up, in other denominations also. I spent 10 years in the Baptist church, and after studying some on this topic, IMO, the Baptist's, independent, and Southern both, don't have it right either. I have seen in several Baptist Churches where they have "Head" Pastors/preachers, and "Associate/Assistant" Pastors, "youth" pastors. But in these churches the Head Pastors had the "final" say in any decisions or settling any disputes, he is in...

Yahoo picked up a fluff AP article that distorted Democratic NJ Governor Jim McGreevey’s 2004 resignation. It perpetuated the success of what should have been a politician’s attempt to cover allegations of corruption by using his closeted sexuality to distract an incurious and complicit media. This puff piece kept alive McGreevey’s pattern of announcing something socially startling to draw attention away from the incredible graft, scandal and alleged sexual harassment that would have otherwise defined his administration. When threats to McGreevey's reputation arise, he uses his status as a gay man to deflect unwanted attention, and the AP went along...

Keep Darwin's 'lies' out of Polish schools: education official 2 hours. WARSAW (AFP) - Poland's deputy education minister called for the influential evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin not to be taught in the country's schools, branding them "lies." "The theory of evolution is a lie, an error that we have legalised as a common truth," Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy minister in the country's right-wing coalition government, was quoted as saying by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily Saturday. Orzechowski said the theory was "a feeble idea of an aged non-believer," who had come up with it "perhaps because he was a vegetarian...

Pastor indicted in rape case By MELODY McDONALD STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER FORT WORTH -- A 63-year-old pastor accused of raping a church member last year during a ceremony to cast out demons has been indicted by a Tarrant County grand jury. Leonard Ray Owens, who is free on $25,000 bail, is now awaiting trial on a charge of sexual assault -- a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison. Police have said that they began investigating Owens last year after a 22-year-old woman reported that Owens raped her on two occasions at his Fort Worth home. The...

Former US president Jimmy Carter speaks with DER SPIEGEL about the danger posed to American values by George W. Bush, the difficult situation in the Middle East and Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro. SPIEGEL: Mr. Carter, in your new book you write that only the American people can ensure that the US government returns to the country's old moral principles. Are you suggesting that the current US administration of George W. Bush of acting immorally? Carter: There's no doubt that this administration has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both...

JAKARTA, July 30 (UPI) -- The leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council says he wants to convert Indonesia into an "Allahcracy," it was reported Sunday. Abu Bakar Bashir, 68, free after serving two years in jail for his role in a bombing of two nightclubs in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, tells the Sunday Times of London that Islamist bombings "are reactions by Muslims to defend themselves." "The democratic system is not the Islamic way," he says. "It is forbidden. Democracy is based on people, but the state must be based on God's law. I call it Allahcracy."...

...is to fetishize the concept of "peace." This comes from what I consider to be the theological error of obsessing over the peace and love messages of the New Testament, while forgetting that the justice-heavy Old Testament even exists. (This error isn't made by all Christians, just some.) I am by no means a Bible scholar, but I do know that the Old Testament (or Hebrew Scripture), with its often juridical tone, offers us a profound and valuable way to understand concepts of Justice. Among other things, it gave us the Law. The New Testament brought us a message of...

SELMER, Tennessee (CNN) -- For three months, the 4,500 souls of this God-fearing town have been left to wonder if a demure preacher's wife shot her husband in the back and ran off to the beach with their three girls. ....... Here, third-generation preacher Matthew Winkler, a strapping 31-year-old with a booming voice and charisma to burn, was beginning to make his mark after little more than a year. He had a knack for connecting with younger members, who called him "Wink." On March 22, four church members -- including a doctor and the town undertaker -- let themselves in...

Long article : Did a preacher's obsessions push Dena Schlosser over the edge? "Stop that!" Carolyn Thomas snapped. Her best friend Dena Schlosser was driving with her eyes closed, hissing like a snake. "SSSSSSssssss..." "Open your eyes and look at the road!" Thomas said. "Put your mind on Jesus." The weird behavior had started as soon as Schlosser and her three girls had gotten in the car with Thomas after an evening service at Water of Life church in Plano. Schlosser was chanting something under her breath--"I'm stupid, I'm evil..." Thomas had told her friend over and over: Talk to...

Pastor Davis pleads guilty By Stephenie Steitzer Post staff reporter ADVERTISEMENT Rev. Larry Davis, pastor of First Baptist Church of Cold Spring, Ky., pleaded guilty this morning to charges that he lied on a loan application and evaded paying his taxes. Davis appeared before U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning in Covington and pleaded guilty to two counts of a seven-count indictment. Davis' sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 17. He faces between 24 and 30 months in prison with no chance of parole. He remains on bond. The preacher - who was among those who helped bring the Billy Graham...

ACLU Defends Portales Street Preacher FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, August 4th, 2005 CONTACT: Peter Simonson, Executive Director, ACLU of New Mexico at 505-266-4622 or (cell) 505-620-0775

Leaders of the Reformed Church in America suspended a New Jersey minister, ruling that he violated the denomination's teachings by officiating at his lesbian daughter's wedding. A majority of delegates voted Friday night to suspend the Rev Norman Kansfield from the ministry until he changes his views to fall in line with church doctrine. They also stripped him of his standing as a professor of theology in the RCA. Kansfield, 65, who has served in the church for 40 years, said the decision was "going to be very hard to deal with - my life has been the ministry". "The...

TV evangelist Joyce Meyer and her family have received millions in salary and benefits from her worldwide ministry in recent years, according to newly released records. The documents, obtained by the Post-Dispatch under Missouri's Open Records laws, provide the first public look at how the worldwide broadcasting and publishing empire has compensated Meyer and her family. They paint a picture of a minister and her family who have reaped large financial rewards from the ministry they created and control. Over 20 years, Joyce Meyer Ministries of Fenton has grown to a $90 million-a-year empire with TV and radio programs that...

Celebrity Pentecostal preacher Runar Søgaard is under protection by Swedish police after receiving death threats. A high-profile sermon where Sögaard called the prophet Mohammed "a confused pedophile" has triggered fears of religious war. Runar Søgaard has always managed to combine Pentecostalism and celebrity. PHOTO: Berit Roald / SCANPIX Carola Häggkvist Søgaard, an adored singer in Sweden, assured her Norwegian husband celebrity status. PHOTO: Uglum, Morten Søgaard, 37, enjoys celebrity status in Sweden after his marriage to recording star and Eurovision song contest winner Carola, even though they are now divorced. "Even if I see Runar while he has major police...

LYNCHBURG, Va. - The Rev. Jerry Falwell has checked into a hospital for treatment of a viral infection. Falwell, 71, was taken Sunday to Lynchburg General Hospital after falling ill at a church service. He had battled a severe cold last week and saw a doctor Friday. "It's not considered dangerous," said Falwell, a television evangelist and chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg. "It is just troublesome. I am going to be here a few days." Falwell said doctors planned to keep him at the hospital "until my lungs clear."

STOCKHOLM, February 11, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Swedish pastor convicted of a hate crime for preaching against homosexuality in 2003 has had his conviction overturned on appeal. Ake Green, the pastor of a Swedish Pentecostal church in Kalmar, Sweden, was sentenced in July to one month in prison by a Swedish court for inciting hatred against homosexuals. Green was prosecuted in January 2004 for “hate speech against homosexuals” for a sermon he preached citing Biblical references to homosexuality. The Goeta Appeals Court said that although the court disagrees with Green’s opinions on homosexuality, it is not a crime to preach...

Fiery Islamic preacher Abu Hamza reportedly arrested in London

When people suggested it, the Rev. Will Marotti always rejected the idea of becoming a preacher. "I said, ‘You don't understand. It's not part of my plan,'" Marotti told 120 worshipers during a recent Sunday service at the New Life Church in Meriden, where he is pastor. "Pastors are boring, broken-down kind of people and I don't want to do that." But he is doing it and he isn't boring. Marotti is among the new faces of the Christian right in America, many of whom make up the approximately 40 million people who, like Marotti, define themselves as born-again Christian...

Baptist minister Kurt Van Gorden has withdrawn a civil rights lawsuit he filed against Salt Lake City, Mayor Rocky Anderson and other defendants. The suit stems from 2002 arrests for handing out religious tracts on a downtown plaza. Van Gorden, president of the Utah Gospel Mission, claimed in his federal lawsuit that his arrests on the Main Street Plaza violated his constitutional rights. Van Gorden sought at least $500,000 in damages from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Anderson, former Mayor Deedee Corradini, Police Chief Rick Dinse and a handful of individual police officers. Van Gorden was arrested...

Baptist minister Kurt Van Gorden has dropped the LDS Church from a civil-rights lawsuit he filed in April stemming from 2002 arrests for handing out religious tracts on a downtown plaza. Van Gorden, president of the Utah Gospel Mission, claimed in his federal lawsuit that his arrests on the Main Street Plaza violated his constitutional rights. Van Gorden sought at least $500,000 in damages from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, former Mayor Deedee Corradini, police Chief Rick Dinse and a handful of individual police officers. Van Gorden was arrested two times...

FOREST, Ohio -- A guest evangelist was preaching at the First Baptist Church in a small Hardin County town Tuesday night, emphasizing penance and asking for a sign from God. At that moment, the church's steeple was hit by lightning, setting the church on fire and blowing out the sound system. "It was awesome, just awesome," said church member Ronnie Cheney, 40, of rural Forest. "You could hear the storm building outside ... He (the evangelist) just kept asking God what else he needed to say," Cheney said. "He was asking for a sign and he got one." Cheney said...

Lightning Strikes Preacher Who Asked For Sign Bolt Hits Steeple, Travels Through Guest Evangelist's Microphone POSTED: 1:35 p.m. EDT July 3, 2003 UPDATED: 1:45 p.m. EDT July 3, 2003 FOREST, Ohio -- Damage to a church in Forest, Ohio, is estimated at $20,000 after a preacher asked God for a sign. A member of the First Baptist Church said a guest evangelist was preaching repentance and seeking a sign from God when lightning struck the steeple. Ronnie Cheney called the incident "awesome, just awesome!" Cheney said the lightning traveled through the microphone, blew out the sound system and enveloped the...

Lightning Strikes Preacher Who Asked For Sign Bolt Hits Steeple, Travels Through Guest Evangelist's Microphone POSTED: 1:35 p.m. EDT July 3, 2003 UPDATED: 1:45 p.m. EDT July 3, 2003 FOREST, Ohio -- Damage to a church in Forest, Ohio, is estimated at $20,000 after a preacher asked God for a sign. A member of the First Baptist Church said a guest evangelist was preaching repentance and seeking a sign from God when lightning struck the steeple. Ronnie Cheney called the incident "awesome, just awesome!" Cheney said the lightning traveled through the microphone, blew out the sound system and enveloped the...

<p>Black ministers practicing politics from the pulpit are nothing new. Since the genesis of the modern civil rights movement a half-century ago, no group has had more influence on the politics of rank-and-file black voters than their clergy.</p> <p>But seldom have black preachers mixed Bible readings, political debate and target practice.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The preacher at Friday prayers told a story of how God led ancient Arab soldiers to victory over a stronger infidel army, but his message failed to hearten the faithful who fear war with a modern foe _ America. "I'm afraid of war and worried about my sons," said Um Satar, a mother of five boys. Sermons at Baghdad mosques on the Muslim world's day of prayer came as the Iraqi government-controlled press voiced skepticism about President Bush's declaration Thursday that he hoped the crisis over Iraq's alleged weapons program could be settled without war. The official...

Street preacher plans anti-Santa message Orlando Bethel preaches that 'Santa Claus is Satan's cause' 12/07/02 By BRENDAN KIRBY Staff Reporter LOXLEY -- Controversial evangelist Orlando Bethel may be headed for a showdown with Loxley authorities today, when he intends to take his no-holds-barred message to the town's annual Christmas parade against the wishes of organizers. Bethel, who drew national headlines over the summer when a crowd of funeral mourners attacked him following his condemnation of the deceased, said Friday he will not back down from his mission to spread the truth about Christmas. He said unholy attention on Santa Claus...

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Special Dispatch Series - No. 295 November 1, 2001 No.295 Saudis Debate the Annihilation of Christians and Jews Khaled Muhammad Batrafi, a Saudi columnist for the London daily Al-Hayat, recently published an article headlined "Why do we hate the People of the Book?" (namely – Christians and Jews) in which he tells of a religious argument he had with a friend regarding the annihilation of Christians and Jews. The argument took place following a sermon at a mosque that called for their annihilation. In sermons of this kind, said Batrafi, the preachers usually cite Koranic verses and selected interpretations...