Lethal Prayer
August 28th, 2007
Fred Clark takes on The Gang That Can’t Pray Straight:
It seems that Dr. Wiley S. Drake, pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif., issued a political endorsement (Huckabee in ‘08!) on church letterhead. That’s something that tax-exempt churches are not allowed to do, which the watchdog group Americans United for the Separation of Church and State pointed out in a complaint to the IRS.Drake responded by asking his followers to pray for the deaths of the leaders of Americans United.
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And that’s just the start: it gets even sillier as you read on.