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...streets to city hall to cast early votes. Voters sang songs as they marched, waving banners that implored onlookers "Don't Wait 'Til the Battle's Over - Vote Now" and wearing inspirational T shirts. One of the leaders in this march was the Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco. He said his church was founded in 1852, the year Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was published. "For us to come together in 2008 and lead other churches to city hall to vote after a Sunday worship service was just incredible...
...County, where Al Gore beat George W. Bush by just one vote out of more than 78,000 cast in 2000. Just north of Kansas City, leading employers there range from a Ford plant to a liberal-arts college. Six different lines were going at the mega Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, some of the queues spilling out onto a parking lot scaled nearly as big as those at a pro-football stadium...
...Michael Griffith, a 23-year-old New York City immigrant from Trinidad, was targeted by a white mob when he ended up in the wrong part of Brooklyn. He was struck by a car and killed as he tried to flee his attackers. Subsequently, a then obscure Baptist minister named Al Sharpton led a march through Brooklyn, a march that itself nearly led to violence. A few months later, New York mayor Ed Koch wrote a New York Times op-ed explaining that his "outrage" at the incident had led him to support hate-crimes laws. "Hate crimes...
...shouldn’t be taught in science class. This mixed record gives the impression that McCain doesn’t drink the Kool-Aid but wants the votes of those who do. But the question remains, where does Palin stand?Rev. Howard Bess, who used to be a Baptist minister in Palmer, a small town near Wasilla, argued that she is a young-earth creationist. According to Salon.com, Bess recalled a conversation where he pushed her on whether the earth “was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth...
...volunteers from the Baptist Church had come by earlier in the day and cut down the battered, ancient oak tree that had shaded her backyard. It had fallen, ripped up by the winds like a weed. A small sign in the yard remained in place: "She who plants a garden, plants happiness." Her barbecue and garden shed had stayed put. Francis laughs but not heartily...