For God and country: more U.S. pastors seek political office in 2016

One Sunday two years ago, Pastor Rob McCoy, who believes in banning abortion and gay marriage and putting prayer back in schools, stood at the pulpit of his California mega church and announced he was endorsing a political candidate: himself.McCoy represents a tactical shift within a Christian far right seeking to regain its political influence after losing several big battles in the so-called culture wars, including the Supreme Court ruling this year allowing gay marriage. That shift is being brought into sharp focus as activists prepare the battleground for the 2016 general election.

McCoy represents a tactical shift within a Christian far right seeking to regain its political influence after losing several big battles in the so-called culture wars, including the Supreme Court ruling this year allowing gay marriage. That shift is being brought into sharp focus as activists prepare the battleground for the 2016 general election.

Aiming to motivate conservative Christians, they are focusing on smaller political races, local ballot initiatives and community voter registration drives.

At the center of the effort is the American Renewal Project, an umbrella group that says it has a network of 100,000 pastors. It is headed by evangelical Republican political operative David Lane, who wants to recruit 1,000 pastors to run for elected office in 2016.

So far, roughly 500 have committed to running, Lane told Reuters.

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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, December 14, 2015

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  • We had a little bit of a health scare, but all appears well.  There’s a dime-size lump under DaughterGeeding’s right breast.  She thought it was pretty cool, but her mother and I were a bit concerned.  Doing your own medical diagnosis on the Internet can both be alarming and calming, but no matter what, we wanted her pediatrician to check it out.  As expected, it was just something called a breast bump, or medically speaking, premature thelarche.  The bigger concern was precocious puberty, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.  It should go disappear no longer than two months.
  • I will admit, when I first felt the bump, I was optimistic, however, for a brief moment, my entire world stopped down and began crumbling.
  • We got Christmas cards in the mail from my family in Vietnam yesterday.  It was quite a surprise to open up a card and then see an origami type sail ship unfold.
  • Maine news – Buzzfeed – This Guy Made Santa Piss On ISIS In A Christmas Display And The Cops Showed Up
  • Buzzfeed – A 96-Foot Christmas Tree Has Burned To The Ground In California
  • Buzzfeed – This Santa Held A Picture Of A Deceased Child To Fulfill A Father’s Christmas Wish
  • Get a glimpse of Sherlock’s ‘abominable bride’ in new teaser for holiday special –
    The beloved detective’s Victorian special premieres worldwide on January 1st
  • Toronto mall has younger, thinner ‘Fashion Santa’
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
  • The Dallas Morning News has a funny 404 page for its sports section.
  • Tesla to open Fort Worth car gallery
  • What it’s like to be an inheritor – In the latest installment of our anonymous interview series, we talk with inheritors, trust fund recipients, and the solemnly rich.
  • It’s time for Trump to start marketing some kind of health supplement.
  • Seven of the ten cities that spend the most on Christmas are right here in Texas – The top ten places around the country with high annual Christmas budgets is basically a list of Dallas and Houston suburbs. Flower Mound, Frisco, and Allen rep the DFW Metroplex, while Sugar Land, Pearland, The Woodlands, and League City show out for Houston.  – I know at least two BagOfNothing readers in Frisco, hello Ben and Alex!
  • ‘Fargo’ thoughts:
    • It wouldn’t bother me in the least if this show won every single award it’s eligible for.
    • I loved the opening of ‘Fargo’ last night, it was nice seeing the cast from the first season.
    • Kirsten Dunst’s breakdown scene and Patrick Wilson’s story about the fall of Vietnam was some fantastic acting.
    • “It’s the rock we all push, men.  We call it our burden, but it’s really our privledge.”
    • “You’ll know the angels, when they come, because they will have the faces of your children.”
    • “The words we say and the words we hear aren’t always the same thing.”
    • I loved the ending, it was tense for me up until the credits.  The show was so unpredictable I was expecting something drastic, which kept me on edge.  I really appreciate not having to see some kind of sentimental death scene of Betsy and having some loose ends with Hanzee on the loose and Mike Milligan starting a new life.  Last year’s finale had a lot of closure, but this provide enough closure and it made me crave more, which a great story should.
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Trump Is Healthy

This is Donald Trump’s doctor.

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He writes that Trump would be the healthiest president ever.

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Details at Buzzfeed.

Off hand, if I were to guess the healthiest president of them all, I’d have to go with W.

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