While taking a break from work today, I watched the TV in the lounge. Sarah Palin was on the screen, launching into a speech about Barack Obama’s association with William Ayers. Behind her, hundreds of young women were applauding vigorously.<\/p>\n
Barack Obama was 8 years old and attending school in Jakarta, Indonesia when William Ayers, a member of The Weather Underground<\/a>, engaged, along with a number of other people, in violent actions intended to bring about a revolution. During that turbulent period of American history, there were other violent groups, including The Symbionese Liberation Army<\/a>. If you read Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States<\/a>, you will learn that violent protest has not been uncommon in the history of our country.<\/p>\n Reading through these Wikipedia articles gives a better understanding of the times. While I do not condone violence as a means to an end, the tactics of The Weather Underground were by no means unusual in our history. Nor were the actions taken by the government to suppress those tactics.<\/p>\n While The Weather Underground was active in the United States, Barack Obama<\/a> was attending school in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mr. Obama had no association with William Ayers until 1995, when he served on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge<\/a>, along with others.<\/p>\n By the time Mr. Obama met Mr. Ayers, Mr. Ayers had re-integrated himself into main-stream society and was a professor at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n I was so outraged at what I had seen that I went to speak to one of my fellow workers, who is much more knowledgeable about the Bible than I. I asked her, “Where in the Bible does it say that associating with a sinner stains that person with sin also?” She asked for some context and I explained what I had seen on the TV. She then answered, “Nowhere.”<\/p>\n For Sarah Palin, a self-professed Christian, to excoriate a fellow human being for associating with another human being who sinned is simply un-Christian. Did not Jesus himself associate with sinners and criminals? While taking a break from work today, I watched the TV in the lounge. Sarah Palin was on the screen, launching into a speech about Barack Obama’s association with William Ayers. Behind her, hundreds of young women were applauding vigorously. …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[131,125,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSarah Palin is no Christian, in my opinion. By engaging in the guilt-by-association argument, she has sinned greatly herself. She needs to repent, badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"