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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyDecember 6th, 2007
I have to admit that I don’t now much about Rev. Bill Keller, but lately I’ve found him to be quite amusing. (Sometimes it does a soul better to be amused than constantly outraged.) Yesterday, we reported on an apparently retracted press release that Keller issued via Christian Newswire in which he pretended to know what Mitt Romney was going to say this morning.
Well imagine the déjà v I experienced today when this press release bounced into my inbox at 12:37 EST. Just in case that one disappears, here’s a screen capture (Click on the image to see it full-size):
And compare that to yesterday’s withdrawn press release:
It looks like all that Keller did was take yesterday’s press release and “corrected” it. It turns out he had to make quite a few corrections — so many that maybe his strikeout of his own self-description as an “expert” may have been a remarkable moment of candor. Anyway, I’m guessing his markups looked something like this, with italics representing his additions:
Expert Guest/Interview Opportunity: ‘Romney’s Speech Nothing but a Lie,’ Says Evangelical Leader Bill Keller, Who Coined the Infamous ‘A Vote for Romney is a Vote for Satan’ Slogan
ST. PETERSBURG, Fl., Dec. 5 6/Christian Newswire/ — Bill Keller, founder of www.liveprayer.com – the first national Christian leader to call into question Mitt Romney’s Mormon background with his now infamous “A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” message – is predicting calling Romney’s upcoming speech on Thursday will be “Nothing but a big lie.” [sic – he forgot to strike out “will be”]
So certain is Keller, who sends out a daily devotional to over 2.4 million opt-in subscribers worldwide, that he has pre-written his devotional for Thursday morning critiquing critiqued Romney’s speech as deceptive and misleading.
Keller states that if Romney wanted to be honest, he would be giving have given his speech in at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, rather than at the George Bush Presidential Library in Houston College Station, Texas. Keller says he is certain Romney will have his wife and five children with him while he gives his speach, and his delivery will be peppered said Romney continues to deceive and mislead people with a steady dose of words such as “God,” “Jesus,” and “The Bible,” even though the god and Jesus of Mormon theology is not the same as the God and Jesus of the Holy Bible. In fact, says Keller, Mormons believe the bible is a flawed and incomplete book.
In the speech, Romney stated that “he believed Jesus to be the Son of God,” failing to mention that according to his churches theology, Jesus is also the spirit brother of Lucifer and NOT and a created being, NOT DEITY, the key tenet of the Christian faith.
Keller concludes that this upcoming speech will simply be is simply Romney’s most recent attempt to try to deceive people into thinking he is a Christian, when in fact Mormon theology that he refused to address is totally inconsistent with biblical Christianity.
“In the end, Romney will try to demonize anyone who has the guts to hold him accountable for his deception, calling them religions bigots and other names,” says Keller. “But I refuse to be silenced since, for me, this is not – and never has been – about politics. It’s about the eternal souls of men who will be lost if they follow the false teachings of a Mormon cult.”
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Zeke
December 7th, 2007
Jim, the Christianist’s last name is Keller, not Kelly.
This guy has been a regular treat on late night television here in the Tampa Bay area for years.
He really is scary and hateful. He even told a teenager that he was going to hell for being gay and told him to go to “ex-gay” “rehab” in Orlando.
At one point his “Live Prayer with Bill Keller” show was supposed to go national. I hope to God that no one else in the country is subjected to this crazy man’s rants.
Jim Burroway
December 8th, 2007
Oh Good Lord. That’s what happens when you stay up late… Thanks, Zeke.
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