Layers of irony -- layers on layers: Obummer's preacher creature was one of the few pulpiteers actually naming some of ameriKa's biggest sins, but he became an embarrassment for Soetoro because he was anti-American (but the dumb sheeple would never have sat still for those accusations by even a friendly spokesman). At the supposed other end of the political spectrum, Michele is already a diva because of her alleged conservatism, but she almost certainly dumped the Evangelical Lutheran Church because it superficially appears to cleave to the old time religion.... which most ameriKans fancy they embrace themselves!
Politicians don't play to the people, however, so this commie globalist pinup chick is merely kissing the feet of the socialist mass media with such a move. In the end, she and Obummer embrace the exact same political agenda, and what they have in common is doing their best to fool most of the people most of the time into thinking we have representative government.
Nobody in the above scenario is in fact conservative. The ELS churches (if I know them after the years I've spent in Lutheran music departments) isn't one-tenth as true to Luther's theology as people think.
He certainly wouldn't be allowed to speak in pulpits of the similar Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) today. Too controversial! And the ELCA? They'd have him arrested for hate speech before he reached the church door.
The person who sent me this item highlighted one phrase. Wonder exactly what "faith" the Bachmans embrace? Besides governmentolatry, I mean.
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Washington (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has long been a darling of conservative evangelicals, but shortly before announcing her White House bid, she officially quit a church she’d belonged to for years.
Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and her husband, Marcus, withdrew their membership from Salem Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minnesota, last month, according to church officials.
The Bachmanns had been members of the church for more than 10 years, according to Joel Hochmuth, director of communications for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the broader denominational body of which Bachmann’s former church is a member.
The church council granted the Bachmanns’ request to be released from their membership on June 21, Hochmuth said.
After declaring at the CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union Leader presidential debate that she would seek the nomination, Bachmann formally announced her presidential bid June 27 in Waterloo, Iowa.
The Bachmanns approached their pastor and verbally made the request “a few weeks before the church council granted the request,” Hochmuth said. He added, “they had not been attending that congregation in over two years. They were still on the books as members, but then the church council acted on their request and released them from membership.”
Bachmann had listed her membership in the church on her campaign site for congress in 2006. She lists no church affiliation on her campaign website or her official congressional website.
Hochmuth said that a change in membership is not out of the ordinary. “You have people who are on the books as members, but they may have gone on to another church; they may not be attending a church anywhere. There’s all sorts of circumstances.”
A similar request for membership is to transfer membership from one church to another within the denomination. But that does not appear to be the case with the Bachmanns, according to Hochmuth, who said that to his knowledge, the couple was no longer attending a church within the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
Pastor Marcus Birkholz has been at the helm of Salem Lutheran Church for nearly three decades. When asked about the Bachmanns leaving the church, he said, “I’ve been asked to make no comments regarding them and their family.”
Bachmann was asked about her status with the church on Thursday at Reagan National Airport as she headed to catch a flight. When asked about her pastor, she asked, “Which one?” An aide quickly hustled her away, noting that they were late for a flight.
The Bachmann campaign declined to immediately respond to a request for further comment Friday.
Becky Rogness, a spokesperson in Bachmann’s congressional office, said the Congresswoman now attends a nondenominational church in the Stillwater area but did not know the name of the church or how long she had been attending.
Hochmuth said that, “My understanding of the situation was the timing of the request for release was far more coincidental than strategic.”
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod has come under criticism from some Catholics for its views on the papacy, an institution that the denomination calls the Antichrist.
"We identify the Antichrist as the Papacy," the denomination's website says. "This is an historical judgment based on Scripture."
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights issued a statement Thursday about Bachmann's denomination, saying it's "regrettable that there are still strains of anti-Catholicism in some Protestant circles."
"But we find no evidence of any bigotry on the part of Rep. Michele Bachmann," the statement continued. "Indeed, she has condemned anti-Catholicism. Just as President Barack Obama is not responsible for the views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rep. Bachmann must be judged on the basis of her own record".........
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