The AP is reporting
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."
In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."
This is why she is dangerous. And it has nothing to do with her gender.
And this is also why she is going to pump up the base, something that McCain could never do.
The video was on the Wasilla Assembly of God website
The section of the church's Web site where videos of past sermons were posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the site "was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last few days."
The Huffington Post has the link (quote at the 6 minute mark)to the video and even better, quotes from her Pastor.:
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."
Now I personally don't believe that the statements of anyone's pastor should be used against them. But I do believe voters have a right to know that this woman, like those whom she is being asked to replace, believe they take their orders from a higher power, and not the American electorate.