KENNEDY, Minn. -- "Watchdog group targets Warroad church, five others for endorsing McCain," a Herald news story reports (Sept. 30).
Watchdog group indeed! Where was this hypocritical, pompous windbag, Barry Lynn, when the Revs. Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and Louis Farrakhan as well as Dennis Jacobsen, pastor of Incarnation Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, were endorsing Obama? For that matter, where was the Herald?
"Yapping cur" would be a more accurate description of Lynn's organization.
According to the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ ( www.reclaimamerica.org ), the pastors mentioned have every right under the First Amendment to endorse political candidates. And I would remind Lynn and the Herald that nowhere in the Constitution does it say there is a "separation of church and state."
The First Amendment states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
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It's a disgrace that the press, which is also protected by the First Amendment, doesn't carry out the duty for which our founding fathers intended: that of an unbiased, impartial watchdog, instead of an "in the tank" ally of Obama, a candidate whose policies are reckless and dangerous.
If all the church leaders in this country had shown the same moral courage as the six mentioned, we wouldn't be in the liberal mess we are today.
David Hammond
