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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 06:05 AM

    Separation of church and state!

    This is exactly what our founders formed this country to prevent. This woman, as evidenced in her ABC interview, it not ready nor has the demeanor to be vice-president much less president. She would make her decisions based on her evangelical faith, not on the principles espoused in the Constitution. It is amazing that the Christian right, who so despise the Muslim religion, cannot see what has happened in the mid-east where religion and politics go hand in hand to not themselves stop that from happening here. But they are the Christian version of the zealots. I am a practicing Catholic but hardly follow the edicts of the Pope and am a firm believer in separation of church and state. Sarah Palin is a dangerous person to have so close to being president. McBush selected her to pull the female vote and the evangelical right back into his boat only.

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