As Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin appointed Patrick Donelson to the Alaska Suicide Prevention Council. Donelson, as Talk to Action's Bruce Wilson uncovered, is at the center of one of Alaska's most extreme religious movements.
The parent ministry of Carry the Cure, Inc., promotes a revolutionary theology of religious warfare, and exhortations to "fight for revolution" appear in Carry the Cure's exuberant, high quality music and rythm-driven public school anti-suicide presentations. In late 2007, Sarah Palin appointed the co-founder of that program to the Alaska Suicide Prevention Council...
In the year 2000, Wasilla, Alaska mayor Sarah Palin joined the advisory board of Carry the Cure, Inc., a 501(c)(3) suicide-prevention nonprofit which has received tax-exempt public and private funds for running suicide prevention programs in schools and churches but has declared, on its 2000 to 2006 federal tax returns, its organizational mission to be “Religious - Evangelism”.
Both William Pagaran, Carry the Cure’s current president, and Pat Donelson, its cofounder and former president, are licensed ministers through Northwind Global Ministries, which Donelson currently directs. Northwind promotes “Joel’s Army” doctrine, that an end-time army of young Christians endowed with supernatural powers will conquer and purify the Earth. Northwind Global Ministries is closely linked to a fast growing, anti-denominational movement within Christianity, highly controversial among Christian conservatives, known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which characterizes the Catholic Church, all Protestant Christian denominations, and competing religious and philosophical belief systems as invalid and under demonic influence.
The Northwind Global Ministries web site depicts Carry the Cure, Inc. as a subsidiary, or affiliate, as part of Northwind’s “apostolic teams” ministry effort. Among sample video clips, posted on the organization’s web site, of the music-based anti-suicide program Carry the Cure presents in schools and churches, one clip shows Carry the Cure musicians playing, for a public school audience, a rock song with the lyrics, “take me and my generation, we will fight for revolution.”
In early 2008, while still listed on Carry the Cure’s advisory board, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appointed Patrick Donelson, listed on Carry the Cure’s available tax records as Carry the Cure President up through 2006, to a four year position on the Alaska State Suicide Prevention Council, a position which would allow him to make recommendations on how Alaska State suicide prevention grant money is used.
Palin, as Gov, spent more than $13,000 of state tax money to attend religious functions, including board meetings at Carry the Cure.
On its tax forms since 2003, Carry the Cure has described its suicide prevention programs as providing “Religion related - Spiritual development”. As currently stated on its web site, Carry the Cure holds that “Jesus and His church are the greatest resources for people who are hopeless, depressed, desperate or in need and that no safety net is complete without them”.
And you wonder why the extreme religious right got so excited about her nomination?
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