Sarah Palin attended the Wasilla Assembly of God church until 2002. The pastor of the church, Ed Kalnins, is likely to become the next focus of this slow-motion train wreck we can't stop watching.
According to the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"A review of recorded sermons by Ed Kalnins, the senior pastor of Wasilla Assembly of God since 1999, offers a provocative and, for some, eyebrow-raising sketch of Palin’s longtime spiritual home." The link, to the Wasilla Assembly of God, provides an opportunity to listen to the minister's sermons.
http://www.wasillaag.net/...
Of course, I couldn't get it to play because, according to the message when you try it, the server has reached its capacity. How'd that happen?
So we'll have to rely on the Huffington Post article, which relates the following:
"...Pastor Kalnins has also preached that critics of President Bush will be banished to hell; questioned whether people who voted for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 would be accepted to heaven; charged that the 9/11 terrorist attacks and war in Iraq were part of a war 'contending for your faith;' and said that Jesus 'operated from that position of war mode.'"
Palin's history with the church is also detailed:
"It is impossible to determine how much Wasilla Assembly of God has shaped Palin’s thinking. She was baptized there at the age of 12 and attended the church for most of her adult life. When Palin was inaugurated as governor, the founding pastor of the church delivered the invocation. In 2002, Palin moved her family to a nondenominational church, but she continues to worship at a related Assembly of God church in Juneau."
In 2004 Kalnins said, "I’m not going tell you who to vote for, but if you vote for this particular person, I question your salvation. I’m sorry." Kalnins added: "If every Christian will vote righteously, it would be a landslide every time."
Guess we won't be seeing any negative ads about Reverend Wright, eh?