East Valley Tribune: Group rallies to protest pastor’s message

The gist of this is that there’s a pastor in Tempe who is praying that Obama dies and goes to hell and is being very vocal about it. One of his parishioners is the person who showed up at an Obama rally in Arizona last month with an assault rifle on his back. This is also apparently the pastor who got tasered after he refused to let Border Patrol agents search his car.

This man disgusts me. I will readily admit that I wanted to see Bush 2.0 leave office during his presidency and would have loved to see him impeached but… I NEVER PRAYED FOR HIM TO DIE OR GO TO HELL!!!!! Hello? This guy is serious breaching the commandment against killing and he’s also completely forgetting Romans 13:1 which states that “everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.”

The amount of seriously malicious hate that has cropped up since Obama’s inauguration is just scaring me. There was serious polarization during Bush 2.0’s terms but his detractors were all liberals and believed in self-control and gun laws. You would NEVER have seen parents keeping their kids home from school or the heads of the state Democratic parties decrying Bush 2.0 addressing kids on the first day of school. We’ve either seriously deteriorated as a society in terms of reason and civility or the media is just showing the right-wing nut jobs. In the case of the latter, I wish they’d stop giving them so much press.