43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[h] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies[i] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
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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To the readers of this blog:
Mr. Bough is reserving his place in Hell. He should not be allowed around children, his own or others, in our judgment.
There is no such thing as bad Theology, just false Gods. Mr. Obama follows a false God in his practice of Radical Islam. Mr. Biden worships an old man in Rome in the place of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
This web site is run by Blasphemers and will answer the punishment that our Lord will provide.
For those of you who hoped for Hillary Clinton to receive the Democrat banner, we invite you to support two candidates who share her true Christian Faith without answering the call to sectarian approaches that made us all uneasy. In particular, we can protect the unborn and teach the Truth in schools untainted by Darwinism.
Join John and Sarah in a crusade to save this country.
Yours with a servant's heart!
Indeed, if you believe the sorts of things that Martyr just wrote, you are definitely the type of person who would approve of Sarah Palin.
On the other hand, if you think that comment was some whacked out crazy sick nonsense, then you might want to look elsewhere.
Dan, Dan, Dan.
Pigeonhole much.
There are plenty of us out there that think martyr is a crazy, sick, wacko, but understand that he doesn't speak for anybody but his own twisted self.
That is why we support McCain/Palin, because we understand that you don't have to follow political dogma 100% to support someone. In fact, we believe that if you do follow political dogma 100%, then you probably don't have much self respect.
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