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Date Posted: 12:49:49 01/15/04 Thu
Author: Kelli
Subject: There's no pleasing some people

Hi, everybody! Hope y'all are all well. Meanwhile, I thought this was amusing:

New Christian site:
Don't vote for 'W'

BushRevealed.com contends president
is compromising faith, promoting evil

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Posted: January 14, 2004
5:00 p.m. Eastern



By Joe Kovacs



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© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

President Bush may not be able to count on solid voter support from conservative Christians in the upcoming election if a new website run by Christians has any impact.

BushRevealed.com made its debut on the Internet this week, calling on Christians across the nation to rethink voting for the president.

The site, jointly operated by Philadelphia-based Repent America and Columbia Christians for Life in South Carolina, is designed to provide Christians with articles, information and commentaries on Bush's alleged pattern of what it calls anti-Christian behavior and challenges them not to "remain in bondage" to the two-party political system.

"President Bush has repeatedly, and continues, to justify the wicked; from advancing the homosexual agenda, to funding abortionists, to praising Islam, to signing unconstitutional bills into law that further socialism and shred our Bill of Rights," said Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life.

BushRevealed.com claims the president has compromised his Christian faith by "promoting evil and openly supporting wickedness," and warns believers to reject the notion they have no other choice but to vote for the lesser of two evils.

"So many well-meaning Christians continue to reject the truth about President Bush for the sake of conservatism," said Michael Marcavage, a preacher with Repent America. "As Christians, we are not conservatives, but disciples of Jesus Christ who recognize and proclaim where right and wrong come from. Therefore, we must vote righteously. ...

"We are not talking about an error or two that Bush has made in his time as president, rather a pattern of ungodly decisions to embrace and promote evil. ... Bush claims to be a Christian, but his works do not attest to this."

The new website contains a host of links to news articles documenting alleged evidence of Bush's departure from Christian values.

Among them is a WorldNetDaily report titled "Bush cheers 'gay' church after 'Marriage Week.'"

"Not long after he endorsed 'Marriage Protection Week,'" the article states, "President Bush sent a letter of congratulations to a denomination founded by homosexual activists that performs more than 6,000 same-sex 'weddings' each year."

Other headlines include:


Bush: Christians, Muslims worship same God;

Bush invites Muslims to pray in the White House;

Bush backs removal of Ten Commandment monument; and

Bush praises Ozzy Osbourne at White House dinner.
"If Christians will repent of the unbiblical practice of voting for evil, even the lesser of evils, and vote for righteousness, inspecting, say, the Constitution Party candidate and others to discern whether they have biblically based, constitutionalist positions, then we will most wisely position ourselves to receive God's blessing, power, anointing and deliverance for the healing of our sin-sick land," Lefemine said.

Related story:

Bush cheers 'gay' church after 'Marriage Week




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Joe Kovacs is executive news editor for WorldNetDaily.com.



The whole story reminds me of what happened when vocal atheist Dan Barker visited our church. Prior to his visit, Dan offered to set up a debate with any local religious leader who wished to. There were no takers. We were all looking forward to a good debate, so Dan's liaison at our church redoubled his efforts to set something up with practically anyone. Still no takers. Finally, a local philosophy graduate student agreed to a debate.

So we did get to see Dan debate, after all. It was fun to watch, but with the student coming from a philosophy background, as opposed to a religious one, it definitely wasn't the sterling defense of Christianity that a group of Christians sitting next to Eric & I obviously expected. As the student conceded point after point concerning various Christian dogma, the Christians sitting next to us became more and more furious. By the end of the debate, their grumbling had grown so loud the moderator reminded them twice that Dan had done all he could to encourage a minister or preacher closer to their view point to debate, to no avail. On the spot, Dan offered again to debate the group's preacher or minister, or even just one of the people in the group, if they so desired. Need I say there were no takers?

As we were leaving, Eric & I overheard them bitterly complaining if "pastor so-and-so" had been there, he'd surely have wiped the floor with Dan. However, Dan was in town for 4 or 5 more days, if memory serves, and though he made it clear he'd be happy to debate any of them or their pastor/minister/preacher any time, he never got a call to. :)

That night, we attended a party given for Dan by one of our church members. We related the angry comments the group sitting next to us had said during the debate. Dan laughed and said it was funny; that that was the exact reaction of some in the crowd invariably had no matter what type of Christian he debated. No matter who it was, there were always some Christians in the crowd who angrily felt they were getting it all wrong, the person debating Dan wasn't a real Christian like they (those complaining) were!

*Shaking head* So Bush isn't "Christian" enough? There's just no pleasing some people. :)

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