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Upton refused to confirm further details. Affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church, the Apostolic Congress is part of an important and disciplined political constituency courted by recent Republican administrations. As a subset of the broader Christian Zionist movement, it has a lengthy history of opposition to any proposal that will not result in what it calls a "one-state solution" in Israel.

?....The United Pentecostal Church is a sect of the mono-mono-mono-mono-theism of Islam?

?...They do NOT believe in The Holy Trinity...?

(Islamic Pentecostals?)

/sarcasm

Yeah, they seem pretty nutty, but at least Bush isn't meeting with the Anton LeVay, Head of the Church of Satan like Kerry is! 8-)

Every president has to have representatives who meet with the fringier elements of their support. Clinton had people meeting all the time with kooks like Calypso Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam or The World Socialist Party. Hell, the Democrats just paraded around that felon Al Sharpton as a legitimate candidate for the presidency.

Perlstein conveniently glosses over the fact that Bush ignored the pleas of the apocolyptic sect, and supported Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Apparently, they don't have quite the amount of pull within the Administration that Perlstein seeks to imply.