By now you may have heard about the Kenyan Pastor, Bishop Thomas Muthee, who blessed Sarah Palin in a special ceremony designed to protect her from "witchcraft". Palin has said that his spiritual intervention had helped her to become governor of Alaska. (So his God controls the voting machines?)
It seems that this same Bishop Muthee had led a witch hunt back in Kenya, accusing a woman called "Mama Jane" of witchcraft and eventually driving her out of town. I would leave too. But Muthee calls it "spiritual warfare".
Once all this weird stuff leaked out to the press, people started commenting.
And so now the Catholic League is jumping on the right-wing defensive bandwagon, with the League's president Bill Donahue accusing the "chattering class" of ridiculing Palin's faith and demanding that we respect Muthee's (and Palin's) belief in witchcraft because "Witchcraft is a sad reality in many parts of Africa". Whatever.
So why did we not see that kind of respect when Dennis Kucinich admitted that he may have seen a UFO? Kucinich at the time was ridiculed, even though Ronald Reagan was apparently obsessed with the prospect of an alien invasion, Ronald and Nancy Reagan both consulted an astrologer before making major decisions, and George W. Bush believes that God speaks through him?
Oh, yeah -- Kucinich is a Democrat. Hence the double standard.
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