Obama critic prays for rain during big speech
By: Stephen Keating8/5/2008 - 7:50am
Stuart Shepard of Focus on the Family Action is praying for “torrential” rain at Invesco Field at Mile High on Aug. 28, the night Barack Obama is to accept the Democratic nomination for president. “Why would I pray for that?” he asks in an online video. “Well, I’m still pro-life. And I’m still in favor of marriage being only between one man and one woman. And I'd like the next president, who'll select justices for the U.S. Supreme Court, to agree."
Shepard, a former meteoroligist, says he's "looking for lots of people who feel like I do to pray for rain." The video is buzzing among some bloggers, one describing it as "incredibly petty."
Said a Democratic Convention spokesperson, “Let’s remember we’ve got a reverend (Leah Daughtry) at the helm. So we have the utmost ‘faith’ the sun will be shining when we nominate the next president of the United States.”
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If the Rain halts the RNC - God must be an Obama Supporter!
First off - congrats Stephen Keating on being the first google result when we typed in "pray for rain" - nice.
So we've (my husband and I) been watching the news. A lot. This morning we were watching the hurricane gustav updates along with RNC pre-game coverage. I gotta say, my husband and I got quite a chuckle in thinking about the irony that this jackass conservative called for a "rain" prayer to ruin the DNC. HAHA, joke's on you FOF jerk - looks like you got the rain you deserve. Meanwhile, Obama reigned. On his night, even I became a true believer.
I watched the McCain story this morning on MSNBC and I have to say, it's a good story, a strong story of a soldier on the wrong side of enemy lines. What is still striking to me is that people don't identify McCain as what he really is: a not-so-smart testosterone driven overgrown frat brother.... I can't in any reality reconcile that McCain is smart enough to undertake an office where cultural nuance, deep sociological understanding and innovative thinking will be required if we are to regain our place as a leader in the modern world.
Harvard Law Review President? Obama. Bottom of his class at Annapolis (where he likely got in because of his family connections, not his grades)? McCain.
I'm sorry, another 4 year term of good ole boy croney-ism, truthiness, and misguided wars is not my idea of the smart choice. As a Mensa Life Member, I think I might know a little something about smart. My husband too a Mensan, agrees, McCain is the choice of the uneducated, the closed-minded and the weak, stuck in a rut, clinging to the familiar and unable to embrace the possibility of hope, of change, of renewed optimism. Get on board. It took me a while too, but I'm buying in to the possibility.
Obama - I pray for reign. Reign over us, help us find the peace and unity and hope that we all want. That's the reign I'm looking for in November.
Rubi Nicholas
Dever Rain
As an Evangelical Christian I am afraid of "Christians" who think there are only two Commandments-never an abortion and hate gays. I have great concern about voting for a candidate who stood before God and promised to love and cherish -in sickness and in health, for better or for worse. When a first wife who was a swim suite model has an auto accident and adds a few pounds and uses crutches when McCain comes home from war. He dumps her for a wealthy young flirt. How can we trust this man to put his hand on the Bible and promise to uphold the laws of the United States when an oath before God has no meaning in his life. I believe in one man and one wife. Does my brother Stuart believe in one man and one wife and then another wife and another and another. I hope Stuart can Focus on the Family and Christian love. I love the sinner McCain, as I love friends who are gay and have endured abortions in their lives. I wish and pray for families with two committed and loving spouses but that doesn't always happen. My God is loving and forgiving. I cannot stand and support a man who has lied to God about his commitment to marriage. I pray for gentle rains to water a parched earth in Denver on any day He chooses. I pray for protection, health, and safety of all those who travel to conventions.
Praying for Rain...
It's true we need rain in Denver (My backyard is dying), but this guy is an idiot. Like most pseudo-christian, right-wing nutjobs, he's so confused and out of touch that he doesn't realize that Mile High will be packed with 75,000 people, come rain or shine, waiting for history to be made and praying for a reason to believe our beloved and battered country can save itself. Let it rain! Let it wash away the filth and stupidity of the last eight years!
Stuart Shepard rainfall outtake I'd like to hear...
"In the Old Testament, God washed away the sinful and vice-ridden with 40 days and 40 nights of the sort of torrential rain for which we here at Focus on the Family are praying will fall on the Democrats. Of course, God made a promise to Noah and we have faith that promise will be upheld; however, some reconsideration and a good 40 minute warning - I think we can call it that - surely wouldn't go amiss..."
morl majority superior "rain" dance
Yes its wrong! In fact Colo. Spgs. might be the one getting rained on because God aposes the proud. I know your religous spirit keeps you in fear so you and your bunch are not perfected in LOVE.
praying for torrential rain
ColradoGIRL :
What will you pary for next....locusts? Real Colorado folks know that the last thing our farmers and citizens need is "torrential rain," ....very bad for crops, gardens or the general well being of our state. Yes, we desperately need rain, but not the kind that comes with torrents of hate.
Despite the fact that Focus was given tax breaks and a home here in Colorado, they have not really become friendly or kind neighbors.