Sarah Palin's cult connections that McCain doesn't want you to know about.
Harry Hope
Here's hoping this article starts shining a little bit of light on the
subject--the last thing we need a literal heartbeat away from the
Presidency is a ninja dominionist.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/163234/559/495/579213
Aug 29, 2008
Sarah Palin: Dominionist Stalking Horse
The big news, obviously, in the blogosphere today is John McCain's
surprise pick for the Republican veep nominee--a relative unknown by
the name of Sarah Palin, whom--at least in the more conventional
political circles--would appear to be a complete cypher.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/12648/3010/45/578646
Unfortunately, if one digs just a bit deeper, Palin is found to have
some very interesting--and very disturbing--connections...among them,
being potentially the first Assemblies-linked VP candidate and having
a number of links to dominionist groups targeting kids via "bait and
switch" evangelism.
Sarah Palin's connections that McCain doesn't want you to know about
There are quite a number of extremely troubling links between Sarah
Palin and neopentecostal dominionists--enough that, in truth, she may
be ultimately as much of a "dream candidate" for the dominionist
movement as Mike Huckabee was.
Even worse, she's running in a manner that has been frighteningly
successful for dominionist groups since the early 80's--specifically,
as a "stealth candidate".
Palin's Assemblies linkage
The first link in and of itself is a doozy--and one of the most
damning indeed.
No less than the official newsletter of the Assemblies of God of
Alaska promotes her proudly as one of the denomination's own, and she
was actually feted at an official function of the Assemblies' Alaska
District as recently as this year:
The opening night banquet of the 2008 Alaska District Council was
honored to have Governor Sarah Palin address the delegates and guests.
Governor Palin spoke of her appreciation for the Assemblies of God and
requested that the Council pray for both her and the State of Alaska.
Superintendent Ted Boatsman, who was Palin’s junior high pastor at
Wasilla Assembly of God, along with Pastor Mike Rose of Juneau
Christian Center, where Palin presently attends church when in Juneau,
laid hands on the Governor and led the Council in prayer.
Palin, who was elected Governor in 2007, is Alaska’s youngest governor
and the first female governor of the state.
She just recently gave birth to her fifth child, Trig.
Palin spoke of the faith challenge she faced when learning that Trig
would be a Downs Syndrome child.
However, she and her husband, Todd, believe that every child is a gift
of God, deserving of life, and that God was asking them to accept His
will for their lives.
The Alaska District Council believes that the State of Alaska is
blessed to have a woman of faith and courage as Governor.
A look at the home website of Palin's church tends to be revealing.
http://jccalaska.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=7035445ca9bc40af&pagename=FaithHighway/10000/3000/582JU/vision
Among other things, a particular Assemblies buzzword associated
frequently with Hillsong A/G and New Zealand Assemblies churches shows
up
http://jccalaska.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/applogic+ftcontentserver?pagename=faithhighway/10000/3000/582JU/ministry5
("Destiny", here, is a buzzword for "Joel's Army", and is being
preferred even as the phrase "Joel's Army" is getting enough negative
spin that even the Assemblies is now having to do some rather massive
spin control);
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=964 cell
churches are promoted (of the same sort that are linked to short-term
and longterm psychological damage
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/15/15587/1892/116/515505 and are
among the most coercive tactics ever documented in spiritually abusive
groups http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/10/1787/26874/752/511810).
The church, like a number of other large Assemblies churches, is the
center of a dominionist broadcast TV center
http://jccalaska.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FaithHighway/10000/3000/582JU/staff1
whose programming is carried across multiple channels in Alaska.
http://207.200.19.180/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/applogic+ftcontentserver?pagename=FaithHighway/10000/3000/582JU/Ministry6
In a trend that has been recently documented by no less than Southern
Poverty Law Center (in its recent report on the Joel's Army movement),
the church operates a Seven Project-esque targeted recruitment
campaign aiming at teens
http://jccalaska.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=FaithHighway/10000/3000/582JU/ministry2
(this is common across the Assemblies and across "Joel's Army" groups
in general; fully a third of the documented national-level front
groups operated by the Assemblies target teens).
And...believe you me, Palin's church is definitely "Joel's Army".
Mike Rose, pastor of Juneau Christian Center (Palin's church), is
noted to be connected with the "Third Wave
Movement"http://www.pastornet.net.au/renewal/journal7/evans.html --a
movement in neopente dominionist circles that is the major theological
home of "Joel's Army".
In fact, he's quite closely connected with Rodney Howard-Browne, a
major (in fact, for some years, the major promoter) of "Third Wave"
neopente dominionism, and actively promotes this insanity in his
church:
1. Mike Rose
Mike is an AOG pastor in the largest city in Alaska, who had Rodney
Howard-Browne minister in his church four years ago.
At that time, they had a congregation of 200, but over the last 4
years, they have seen it grow to 600 in a community of 35,000.
The format that Mike uses is one which gives a balanced approach to
church life, allowing for worship and the Word, ministry to the
unsaved as well as impartation of the Holy Spirit.
To do this, he has followed a fairly traditional Sunday morning
worship service with worship, communion and preaching of the Word, as
well as all the other activities which occur in our morning services,
such as dedications and so on.
If there are two or three people who are perhaps crying or laughing
uncontrollably, the ushers will gently lead them into the prayer room
where they can continue to enjoy the presence of Jesus without
affecting those around them.
However, he is also open to the possible occasions when the Holy
Spirit will just sweep over the service and the majority of the people
will be either laughing, crying or worshipping at one time.
His Sunday evening service generally lasts for three to four hours,
compared to the morning one of around two hours.
At the conclusion of the evening evangelistic endeavour, people are
invited to open up their hearts and hunger for a fresh touch of the
Spirit.
It was during these times that the powerful manifestations will take
place and, having observed what has been happening in our Adelaide
meetings over the last few weeks, these times have a great similarity
to the old time Pentecostal camp meeting or tarrying services where
people received a fresh touch of God.
Mike encourages his people to hunger and has taught them along that
line.
He helped them to understand and develop a new sensitivity to the ways
of the Holy Spirit.
His observations were:
* You cannot sustain a move of the Spirit without hunger.
* Corrections need to be made from time to time.
* Don't just get fascinated by the move of God, but rather keep your
eyes on Jesus.
* Mission giving and outreach evangelism should be a prominent part of
this move and the churches which don't reach out soon dry up.
He encourages us not to hype it up and that there needs to be a
continual emphasis on holiness and that only qualified people should
lay hands on those who have come for prayer.
Mike is also an adviser on Rodney Howard-Browne's Revival Ministries
committee, along with three or four other AOG pastors in the USA.
He informed me that he had sat in over 110 of Rodney's meetings and
been impressed by the lack of pressure and hype, but by the powerful
anointing of the Spirit which accompanies this young man.
As to why Howard-Browne's involvement is distressing--well, this
previous article
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/5/10504/2835/310/253942 should
give some pointers, but suffice it to say that another notable church
he's had close connections with is the very church I am a walkaway
from--hence how I know some of this up close and personal.
Some of the fun includes literal imprecatory prayers and curses
against critics http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/madisonsquare.html
and literally accusing critics even within pentecostal circles of
literal blasphemy against the Holy Spirit:
Rodney Howard-Browne gave this 'prophesy' last year at New Life
Center: 'Do not compromise. For if you compromise, you shall not
only lose the anointing that I placed upon you, you shall lose your
life.'" [T.A. McMahon, "Experience-Driven Spirituality," The Berean
Call, May 1995, page 4]
. . .
"I'm telling your right now," [Rodney Howard-Browne] hissed, "you'll
drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!" Dramatically he
gestured toward the crowd [at Melodyland Christian Center, Anaheim,
CA, 1/17/95] and warned them that those like me, who would dare to
question that what he was doing was of God, had committed the
unpardonable sin and would not be forgiven in this world or the next."
[Hank Hanegraaf, "Counterfeit Revival" (1997), page 22]
Bad news...but it doesn't stop there.
Palin's links to "Feminists" For Life, a deceptive anti-abortion group
As if the Assemblies links weren't enough (and between this diary and
the stuff that has been reported re John Ashcroft--much less George W.
Bush's consistent support for Assemblies frontgroups--that should be a
pretty big damn danger sign right there!), there's still more to
indicate Sarah Palin may have been put in as a "stealth dominionist".
Among other things, Palin explicitly promoted "teach the controversy"
by calling for the misnamed "creation science" to be taught in public
schools
http://dwb.adn.com/news/politics/elections/story/8347904p-8243554c.html
(as now well documented in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District,
http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf it's known
that "creation science" is nothing more and nothing less than a method
of putting young-earth creationism in public schools).
It also appears that Sarah Palin is a member of a misnamed group
called Feminists for Life. http://www.feministsforlife.org/
FFL in fact engages in "cultural appropriation" of women's suffrage
icons to promote a very woman-unfriendly agenda that--despite attempts
to sound "not like those crazies in Operation Rescue"--would not only
criminalise abortion but the IUD and hormonal birth control methods,
and potentially everything outside the rhythm method
http://www.feministsforlife.org/FAQ/index.htm (the term "abortifacient
birth control" is a codephrase in the dominionist "pro-life" community
for hormonal birth control--partly due to a unique urban legend
claiming "the pill" and other hormonal birth control causes abortion
and partly because of a unique definition of pregnancy beginning at
conception rather than at implantation (the latter is what most
mainstream OB/GYNs use) and thus making anything preventing
implantation potentially "abortifacient").
FFL promotes such fun bogosities as "post-abortion syndrome"
http://www.feministsforlife.org/FFL_topics/after/index.htm (the idea
that having an abortion will inevitably lead to PTSD and insanity),
and promotes mandatory waiting periods and misinformation guidelines
http://www.feministsforlife.org/FFL_topics/right/index.htm that can be
insurmountable for poor or rural women--even those forced to make the
most heartbreaking choice because of a nonviable pregnancy.
http://aheartbreakingchoice.com/
In fact, one of their biggest causes isn't feminist at all
http://www.feministsforlife.org/taf/1998/summer/Summer98.pdf --they
actively promote the idea that the best choice for women is to stay
home as fulltime mothers, and it can be well argued that the only
traditionally feminist viewpoint they really support is women's
suffrage!
One of the big things FFL promotes is deceptive "pregnancy counseling
centers"--where pregnant teens are forced to essentially listen to an
altar call on how "abortionists want to murder their children" whilst
a pee-stick test clears--and if she tests "yes", she gets a hard-sell
to keep the child or to check herself into a dominionist-run "halfway
house for teenage moms" where she will ultimately be forced to sign
her kid over.
(Yes, there is an entire private adoption industry in the dominionist
community--mostly focusing on adopting out the infants of poor teenage
mothers who have been forced to give their kids up and who have been
either scared into it or checked into such facilities by their
parents.)
Ironically, FFL itself is rather a "stealth" organisation in and of
itself--yes, even the dominionists admit this.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4237.html
Interestingly, despite their claims of being more "moderate" than most
anti-abortion groups, very few real solutions are offered on how they
intend to fund such things (which can be boiled down to "CHOOSE TO
BREED").
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/29/sarah_pahlin_and_feminists_for/
Palin's links with Campus Crusade frontgroups
Palin's linkages don't stop there.
In Kaylene Johnson's book Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's
Political Establishment Upside Down (2008, Epicenter Press) it's
mentioned that Palin was head of the local Fellowship of Christian
Athletes branch in her school--up to and including leading team
prayers.
It is helpful to know a bit of FCA's past history to know why this is
a matter of concern.
FCA is, in fact, a known frontgroup of the coercive dominionist group
Campus Crusade for Christ
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/8/151023/463/84/395531 --yes,
the selfsame Campus Crusade that has such close links to the
Assemblies of God that it can be described as a "conjoined twin" of
the Assemblies and the same one documented as having links to an
ever-widening prosyletisation scandal in our Armed Forces.
FCA also gets quite a lot of cash from de facto Assemblies
funding-front Hobby Lobby
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/23/82357/4096/843/361219 --a
chain, of note, that has bailed out a neopente university
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/28/145718/12/503/415452 and has
even funded paramilitary "Joel's Army" groups targeting teens.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/7/163753/4705/414/452169
The links between FCA and a particular Hobby Lobby frontgroup, Bearing
Fruit Communications, are particularly close.
At least one member of Bearing Fruit's board of directors (T. Ray
Grandstaff) is a former Senior VP for Fellowship of Christian
Athletes.
Regarding FCA itself, the group has been linked to dominionism in
numerous ways; they are well known for "bait and switch" evangelism
(in fact, they and Athletes in Action are among the two groups most
frequently banned from public school campuses due to bait-and-switch
"altar calls" marketed as anti-drug talks to the school
administration).
More info here.
http://www.talk2action.org/comments/2005/11/21/11049/141/4#4
(Such tactics are a favourite of dominionist groups explicitly
targeting youth.)
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/17/214045/406
It's also well known (and, apparently, explicitly by design) that
Fellowship of Christian Athletes rather aggressively
"dominionist-ises" any team they are let into (this tends to be bad
even within the NFL, but even more so within FCA groups run in
colleges and high schools).
Of particular note, FCA has close links with the US Air Force Academy
religious coercion controversies (and is but one of multiple Campus
Crusade frontgroups documented by Military Religious Freedom
Foundation as involved in military religious coercion scandals), and
the ACLU has had to fight them since the 60's because of religious
coercion
http://www.aclualabama.org/AboutUs/ACLUAL_70YearsOfService.pdf (in
particular, Jewish people tend to be targeted,
http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/web/mainpages/students-oncampus.html
according to the anti-cult group Rick Ross Foundation);
http://www.rickross.com/reference/fundamentalists/fund175.html in
addition, it is explicitly supported by dominionist groups,
http://www.afajournal.org/2005/april/4.05campus_ministries.asp and
explicitly partners with other dominionist groups targeting youth
http://www.worldwidechallenge.org/2000/janfeb005.html (including Chi
Alpha (an Assemblies of God frontgroup), Campus Crusade for Christ,
and even scarier groups like "See You At The Pole"
http://www.fca.org/AboutFCA/MinistryPartners.lsp (infamous for, among
other things, nailing people's names to crosses and "praying" over
them to essentially curse people in the name of Christ to convert or
suffer) http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/16/1040/55082 and
Council for National Policy
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/3/2/9632/00000 ).
And finally, the dominionists themselves like her
As expected, many if not most of the dominionist groups in the US have
given explicit approval for Palin on her anti-abortion bona-fides
alone http://www.lifenews.com/nat4234.html --including Concerned Women
for America, Focus on the Family, and a pack of the more extreme
dominionist anti-abortion groups.
I'm not the only one to have noticed the rather extensive dominionist
bona-fides--Pastor Dan over on Street Prophets has noted this as well.
http://www.streetprophets.com/storyonly/2008/8/29/152728/136
Frederick Clarkson over on Talk to Action has also noted salutations
from two other dominionist leaders--one being Kenneth Blackwell, who
was the "dream candidate" of neopente dominionists in his home state
(fortunately, he lost the gubernatorial election).
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/8/29/161452/173
Chip Berlet has also noted on Talk to Action a further endorsement
from Eagle Forum--the oldest dominionist political group aside from
"The Family" and the Assemblies-linked FGBMFI.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/8/29/152024/857
In addition, it would seem she may well have quite a bit of approval
from dominionists in general--that is, if the barometer of the Texas
GOP Convention is to be believed.
(The Texas GOP is one of the most thoroughly steeplejacked GOP
conventions in the US; many of the official party platforms are
indistinguishable from Constitution Party platforms.) The Houston
Chronicle reports:
"It's a slam dunk. I think that people who are concerned about 'How
conservative is Mr. McCain' are now going to say, 'If he can make a
choice of Sarah Palin, then he can be trusted with our conservative
ideals,' " said delegate Cathie Adams, Republican National
Committeewoman-elect and president of the Texas Eagle Forum.
. . .
"I always thought he needed to pick a woman," said Harris County Clerk
Beverly Kaufman, former president of the Texas Federation of
Republican Women.
"I think Hillary Clinton's campaign stimulated a lot of interest among
women voters, and I think this is going to hit a chord."
But Kaufman added: "I look forward to learning more about her."
She also noted that Palin is considered to be against abortion rights,
and McCain "thought he needed to satisfy that wing of the party."
Here's hoping this article starts shining a little bit of light on the
subject--the last thing we need a literal heartbeat away from the
Presidency is a ninja dominionist.
_________________________________________________
Harry
Frank B.
haterof...@yahoo.com
> Here's hoping this article starts shining a little bit of light on the
> subject--the last thing we need a literal heartbeat away from the
> Presidency is a ninja dominionist.
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/163234/559/495/579213
>
> Aug 29, 2008
>
> Sarah Palin: Dominionist Stalking Horse
Thanks for the info, Harry, as always.
I kind of feel that she looks a bit like a dominatrix, also. Those
kinky eyeglasses and skirts she wears. And that is how John McKKKKain
likes his women . Don't anyone ever forget that McKKKKain, by his own
admission, said he fell in love with Cindy Lou Hensley the very first
day they met, and while was still married to his wife Carol. And
everyone is well aware that the primary thing that McCain, opportunist
he is, saw in Cindy Lou was all that money she represented. And if
anyone wants to call me on that assertion, I will call call them on
the fact that McCain said he fell in love with Cindy Lou the very
first day he met her. If he is that shallow and opportunistic, he is
definitely not anyone we need as president, which is becoming more and
more obvious each day.
And for the same reason John McKKKKain picked Sarah Palin as his VP
running mate - his objectification of women - just as almost all
neoKKKKon repugliKKKKan men do. That's why a lot of neoKKKKon
repugliKKKKan men end up like Senator Larry Craig, Rush Limbaugh, Sean
Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly do - their totally sinful view of women as
objects, as well as their need for immediate self-graification - only
good as afterthoughts, possessions, conquests, and sex objects.
robw
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