dangerously utilizing fundies to promote their own agenda:
An Obama-Hater for Clinton, Temporarily
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By Jason Horowitz
March 5, 2008 | 3:12 p.m
Meet Todd Appelbaum, a 46-year-old from Columbus, who wore a shirt that says “Osama for Obama” to the Clinton campaign’s election-night event in Ohio last night.
The white t-shirt, with an image of Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali garb, is adorned with a blue Hillary Clinton button, although Appelbaum is not what one would call a real Hillary Clinton supporter.
“I voted for Hillary today,” he said, “because I’m concerned that, God forbid, Barack Obama will beat McCain. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
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http://www.observer.com/2008/obama-hater-clinton-temporarilyPatriot Pastors
Televangelist the Rev. Rod Parsley of Columbus preaches against abortion, gay marriage and "judicial tyranny." His Center for Moral Clarity instructs pastors on how to arrange voter registration drives and contact legislators.
By: MARILYN H. KARFELD Senior Staff Reporter
Published: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:59 AM EST
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While Johnson of the Fairfield Christian Church conceived ORP, the Rev. Rod Parsley, a wealthy TV evangelist and senior pastor of the World Harvest Church located outside Columbus, is the name and face behind the campaign. For the last year, Parsley has been speaking to the faithful across the country about gay marriage and abortion on his "Silent No More" tour.
Last July, Parsley formed the Center for Moral Clarity, "a Christ-centered voice and force in the United States to help raise the standard of moral excellence and protect the Judeo-Christian values upon which our nation was founded," according to the organization's website. Among the political and cultural issues the center hopes to tackle are abortion, bioethics, judicial tyranny and religious liberties. The center also instructs pastors and individuals in how to arrange church voter registration drives, legislative contacts, and petition initiatives. It provides legal guidelines and boundaries for ministers under section 501C-3 (the IRS category for tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations).
Several months ago, Parsley's church hosted the third annual gathering of Christian pastors. Its goal: galvanize the Christian leadership to get involved in politics through the ORP. About 1,100 ministers from 80 of Ohio's 88 counties listened to Parsley and guest speaker Roy Moore, former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice ousted over his refusal to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse rotunda.
Todd Appelbaum, a 44-year-old native Clevelander who has lived in Columbus for the past 25 years, attended the event along with a number of Republican government officials, including Blackwell. Former chairman of Columbus's chapter of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Appelbaum is now active in a Jewish-Christian coalition that works to support Israel and other issues.
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