Give me a break.
There's also this from Business Insider;
articles.businessinsider.com...
With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching, Herman Cain is quietly expanding his efforts to reach out the GOP's conservative Christian base.
To spearhead this effort, the Cain campaign has looked beyond the traditional ranks of the Religious Right, to the fringes of American Christianity. Business Insider has learned that the Cain campaign recently tapped Pentecostal pastor Robert Upton, a former Bush administration liaison with strong ties to the Oneness and Christian Zionist movements.
Upton is a very strange pick to lead the Cain campaign's faith outreach — although this is perhaps unsurprising, given the former pizza titan's penchant for finding weird campaign staffers.
Grace Wyler writes of Upton;
“Upton's apocalyptic beliefs and worship style are fairly radical, even among other Pentecostals and fundamentalist Evangelicals…their emphasis on End Times, speaking in tongues, and adhering to strict standards of dress have resulted in a prejudice against Oneness churches in evangelical circles…Cain's communications director JD Gordon confirms that Upton, or ‘Pastor Bob’ as he called him, joined the campaign staff ‘within the past month’ as an outreach coordinator to faith-based communities nationwide.
Scary stuff, scary people. Welcome to politics as...unusual...
The more I know about Cain, the creepier he appears to be.
motherjones.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
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