For anyone in doubt about whether McCain is a fundagelical, read this

[robertpaulsen]

McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam

Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it.

On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000-square-foot Ministry Activity Center. That day, a week before the Ohio primary, Parsley praised the Republican presidential front-runner as a "strong, true, consistent conservative." The endorsement was important for McCain, who at the time was trying to put an end to the lingering challenge from former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a favorite among Christian evangelicals. A politically influential figure in Ohio, Parsley could also play a key role in McCain's effort to win this bellwether state in the general election. McCain, with Parsley by his side at the Cincinnati rally, called the evangelical minister a "spiritual guide."

The leader of a 12,000-member congregation, Parsley has written several books outlining his fundamentalist religious outlook, including the 2005 Silent No More. In this work, Parsley decries the "spiritual desperation" of the United States, and he blasts away at the usual suspects: activist judges, civil libertarians who advocate the separation of church and state, the homosexual "culture" ("homosexuals are anything but happy and carefree"), the "abortion industry," and the crass and profane entertainment industry. And Parsley targets another profound threat to the United States: the religion of Islam.

http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html

Not that anyone here would doubt it, but the word needs to be spread!

[Octafish]

1. The guy'll do anything for a vote. Parsley's a telegenic Hagee.

Thanks for the heads-up to a most important article, robertpaulsen.
These guys give religion a bad name.

Parsley, who refers to himself as a "Christocrat," is no stranger to controversy. In 2007, the grassroots organization he founded, the Center for Moral Clarity, called for prosecuting people who commit adultery. In January, he compared Planned Parenthood to Nazis. In the past Parsley's church has been accused of engaging in pro-Republican partisan activities in violation of its tax-exempt status.

Party of Life.
And tax breaks for the rich.

BTW: Isn't McCain a Roman Catholic?

[robertpaulsen]

2. Supposedly, he is Anglican/Episcopalian.

That's according to this website:

http://www.nndb.com/people/914/000023845/

But apparently when he's on the campaign trail, he's a bit more "flexible":


John McCain Forgets What Religion He Is

Cenk-Uygur
Posted Sep 18th 2007 3:00PM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: Politics, Young Turks, Religion, John McCain
Come on, John McCain. How desperate do you have to be to pretend you're a different religion than the one you actually are? Did you think they wouldn't catch you on it?

In the video below we explain how John McCain pretended to be Baptist while campaigning in South Carolina when he is in fact Episcopalian -- and how he got caught and what his reaction was afterward:

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/09/18/john-mccain-forgets-what-religion-he-is/

Proof John McCain will do anything to suck up to fundigelical nutjobs!