Spokeswoman for tattooed, Joel's army evangelist....is scared of Obama.

madfloridian

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Sun Oct-12-08 04:16 PM
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Spokeswoman for tattooed, Joel's army evangelist....is scared of Obama.

I can not let the utter blatant pandering to the religious right go unnoticed. I just can not.

Remember Todd Bentley whose Lakeland, Florida revival went down in flames when he was claiming to raise the dead...and having an affair with a staffer?

Todd Bentley at Third Wave revival

A "working man's revival"

Some Pentecostal observers are calling the Lakeland revival the "third wave," following the "Toronto Blessing" that began in January 1994 and overlapped with the Brownsville Revival that began in June 1995 at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola. In both of those revivals, there were daily services for more than two years, and both featured claims of miraculous healing and prophetic messages and worship practices not usually found in most churches, such as speaking in tongues and "holy laughter," in which worship leaders and portions of the crowd are seized with long bouts of hysterical laughter.

......"Revival leaders are expected to announce today that beginning May 26, they will hold evening services on the grounds of Sun 'n Fun Fly-in under a giant inflatable "air dome" that will hold up to 10,000 people. It will be the home of the revival "indefinitely," said Lynne Breidenbach, a spokeswoman for the revival.

Lynne Breidenbach gets quoted again on the front page of a local paper, The Lakeland Ledger. They are putting more and more religious people on the front page of the paper. She lost no credibility apparently for being so supportive of Bentley.

It wasn�t long before Lynne�s first love came calling and she went to work at WLKF hosting its local talk show, Talk Back. When Root Communications sold the station in 1996 she turned to WWBF in Bartow and did the morning show for four years. In 2003, Lynne and Bill formed Breidenbach Media Group which operates WTWB in Auburndale. She is the President of the company as well as Station Manager and does an afternoon talk show � a mix of politics, culture, and faith, including interviews with national and local newsmakers. In September 2006 Lynne took her afternoon WTWB talk show nationally into 20 markets across the country each weekday from 5 to 8 p.m.
Radio Years

So what did she have to say about Barack Obama after supporting such a controversial revival figure with ties to Third Wave and Fresh Fire groups, and said to be a major part of the Joel's army movement?

Here's what she said on the front page of the Ledger today.

Lynne Breidenbach of Lakeland, a local political activist and co-pastor with her husband, Bill, of Family Life Fellowship, said her fellow religious conservatives in the Republican Party are discouraged.

"McCain didn't excite most evangelicals I know. Sarah Palin did. Now there's a traditional woman who's accomplished a lot. But the second thing that motivates us is we're scared to death of Barack Obama. We see him as a threat to religious liberty," she said.

Well, Lynne, may I say that I consider people like you, Todd Bentley, and Sarah Palin more of a threat to my religious liberty than I have ever seen in my lifetime.

And oh, Dear God, just wait till you see what else she said. She blames the economic problems on people not voting on their values. I have had it up to my ears with the type of values her kind of Christianity offers.

A Sept. 23 Fox News poll indicated just 4 percent of registered voters said abortion was the most important factor in deciding who they would vote for, compared with 46 percent saying the economy was most important. Breidenbach said she is hearing similar sentiments in conversations with local religious conservatives.

"They say, 'I'm pro-life, but (Obama) is going to be better for my family's economic future.' I find that a disturbing trend. I'm very concerned people are making decisions based on immediate needs rather than values, and I think that's a dangerous shift," she said.

Evangelicals tend to see the economic crisis in terms of personal responsibility rather than public morality, Breidenbach said. But for some religious traditions, the economic crisis is itself a moral issue.

I am afraid of Lynne Breidenbach, Sarah Palin, and people like them. I saw Palin today using her son, Trig, as a campaign issue shamelessly on TV. She cares very little about our country, she cares about getting her religious views across. They scare me.

Don't forget the video of these two lovely Alaskan young ladies...they got it right. They said that Alaskans have very low standards for their politicians.

I agree. I also think the Lakeland Ledger has very low standards for what goes on their front page.