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TechnoratiPerhaps tongue in cheek, or perhaps not, Thistlewaite wants Palin to assure the nation that she will not let her husband run the vice presidency, much as the Roman Catholic John Kennedy assured the nation that he would not let the Pope run America. For Thistlewaite, the threat of restored patriarchy is amplified by Mr. Palin’s employment with British Petroleum. Big oil!! Once again, oil is mixing with religion, as conceived in the worst nightmares of the far left about the other “fundamentalist” and former oilman, George W. Bush.
For Thistlewaite, it gets worse. Apparently Palin described the Iraq War in “messianic terms” when speaking to her home church earlier this year. The evidence? The Alaska governor “exhorted” some graduating students: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from is from God.” If anything, Thistlewaite fretted, “Palin is even less aware of the idea of separation of church and state than is the "Current Occupant." Ah, touché!
It’s all very worrisome to Thistlewaite, who somewhat recalls her Puritan forebears' proclivity for witch hunts, though the modern UCC is friendlier to earth-friendly witches than to carbon producing Christians. Palin’s “fundamentalist” views on the environment and skepticism about the Global Warming scare scenarios that the secular and religious left relish are further counts against her, naturally.
Thistlewaite is emphatic. “I can tell you flat out I don't want somebody else in the White House who mouths conservative Christian views, takes us into faith-based wars, will cave in to the oil lobbies and who does not even understand modern science.” Presumably, Thistlewaite prefers her own denomination’s and school’s brand of “Godd-amn America” theology, Jeremiah Wright-style, to traditional Christians who still pray for America’s soldiers and read Bibles with masculine pronouns.
