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Monday, September 15, 2008 12:00 AM

The pastor who clashed with Palin

Baptist minister Howard Bess, who wrote a book Palin wanted banned and who fought her on abortion and gay rights, says the country should fear her election.

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  • Monday, September 15, 2008 01:12 PM

    digging for dirt--and finding it

    Barack Obama has a 20-year on-going close friendship with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist who wants to make America into a marxist gulag, but Howard Bess is not afraid of that. No--he is afraid of Sarah Palin, who holds strong convictions that homosexuality is immoral behavior.

    What is wrong with this type of thinking? It's idiotic nonsense, that's what's wrong with it.

    It's the same kind of wrong thinking that would reach the conclusion, as Mr. Bess did in his book, that today's homosexuals are minister/healers in the mold of Jesus Christ--idiotic nonsense.

    But according to Howard Bess, it is Sarah Palin we should fear, because she tried to warn her fellow Alaskans about his book.

    David Talbot went digging for dirt on Sarah Palin, and he found some. But mostly he just got himself--and Howard Bess--dirty.

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