Posted on 03/17/2006 7:04:22 AM PST by Rakkasan1
WILLMAR, Minn. - The pastor who secretly recorded Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson comments about the Minnesota Supreme Court and the state's law against gay marriage says he has no regrets about what he did. Brent Waldemarsen, senior pastor at Harvest Community Church of God in Willmar, acknowledged in an interview published Friday in the West Central Tribune that his recording of Johnson, DFL-Willmar, had opened up a can of worms. "Unfortunately, it's the senator that opened it," he told the newspaper. Waldemarsen recorded Johnson telling a January meeting of the New London-Spicer Ministerial Association that Supreme Court justices had told him the high court would not overturn a state law defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
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It is dishonest if you say, "Hey, dude, I'm definitely not secretly making an audio tape of what you're saying!" But not dishonest under any other circumstance.
Hmmm... why would there be any expection of being "off the record" or private at the meeting of Ministerial Association?
If the Pastor was free to repeat what the Senator said, then he would certainly be free to tape it.
The only trouble I see is he should have made sure the hosts did not object.
jw
either Johnson is lying or the court has a serious lack of ethics.
hope they recuse themselves when the time comes to rule on the matter.
ooops... "expection" = expectation
Exactly. The only dishonest person in this case was either the person being recorded or the justices.
http://www.startribune.com/587/story/318667.html
sounds like Johnson is a liar
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