Senate Chaplain withdraws from Dominionist Seminar

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Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black has canceled his scheduled appearance at a Christian evangelical conference after he was pictured with columnist Ann Coulter and other prominent conservatives in a brochure promoting the event.

Black told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that he wouldn't be addressing next month's Reclaiming America for Christ Conference because his appearance wouldn't uphold the Senate chaplain's "historic tradition of being nonpolitical, nonpartisan, nonsectarian," a spokeswoman for the chaplain said Thursday.

Spokeswoman Meg Saunders said Black, a Seventh-day Adventist and a former Navy chaplain, had received "a very generic invitation" in fall 2005 to speak at the March conference and had agreed because there was room on his schedule.

After learning more about the other speakers and the event's featured topics, Black became "concerned" and canceled his appearance, Saunders said. "He felt the information had been incomplete," she said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-chaplain2feb02,1,6087157.story?coll=la-news-a_section

[Joanne98]

1. FIRE HIM!

[Fridays Child]

2. Don't you think he did the right thing?

[Joanne98]

5. Only because he got caught.

[ck4829]

3. He says he didn't have enough information about the event

He didn't know about the extremists who would be sharing the stage with him.

[MountainLaurel]

4. Wasn't that Trent Lott's excuse

When he appeared before a meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens (a.k.a., The Klan in suits instead of sheets)?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. For what? Doing the damn right thing and withdrawing

[Nikki Stone1]

6. He just got called on it. He'll sit this one out, be there next year

The * administration is really good at removing lightning rods but allowing them to continue to function. Any word on Rummie's paid office staff?

[TlalocW]

8. He did the right thing, but he's either naive or politically astute

If I were in his position, and I got an invitation to speak at something called, "Relcaiming America for Christ Conference," would I think that they were going to have liberal or non-partisan speakers? Hell, no. The whole language of conservative "christians" is full of victimhood and perceived enemies - We have to reclaim America for Christ; we're being persecuted because we can't force others to believe as we do; etc.

So, if he couldn't tell what kind of conference it was from the name from the very beginning, he's pretty naive, but if he did know what kind of conference it was, then he probably realized that under the previous congress, he could get away with being a partisan hack for Christ and have plent of people in power defend him but maybe not so with this current congress, making him at least politically astute in deciding to cancel his appearance.

TlalocW