{"id":364,"date":"2008-02-19T21:16:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/pastor-for-huck-strikes-back.html"},"modified":"2008-02-19T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T21:16:42","slug":"pastor-for-huck-strikes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/pastor-for-huck-strikes-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Pastor for Huck Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"huckabee20.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/huckabee20.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"83\" style=\"float:right;margin: 5px\" \/>God-o-Meter carried an item last week about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/irs-investigates-prohuck-pasto.html\">the IRS investigating a California pastor<\/a> who endorsed Mike Huckabee on church letterhead, an apparent violation of IRS rules against church politicking. Now that pastor, Wiley S. Drake, is striking back. He&#8217;s calling on his flock to pray for the demise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.org\/\">Americans United for Separation of Church and State<\/a>, the Washington group that lodged the complaint with the IRS against him. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-drake16feb16,1,7451493.story\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em> has the story. Here are the good parts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an e-mail Thursday&#8230;. Drake quoted Psalm 109, which speaks of wicked and deceitful people and asks God to let such a person&#8217;s days be few and let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.<br \/>\n&#8220;In light of the recent attack from the enemies of God, I ask the children of God to go into action with imprecatory prayer,&#8221; he wrote.<br \/>\nImprecatory prayers have been defined as praying for someone&#8217;s misfortune or as appeals to God for justice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter carried an item last week about the IRS investigating a California pastor who endorsed Mike Huckabee on church letterhead, an apparent violation of IRS rules against church politicking. Now that pastor, Wiley S. Drake, is striking back. 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