Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal is catching hell for sending out an email to friends and colleagues asking them to pray for the death of President Obama. He even used biblical scriptures to support his request. Here are the details from the Huffington Post.
WASHINGTON--A Kansas Republican leader under fire for sending an email invoking a bible verse to suggest that Democratic President Barack Obama's "days be few in number" apologized on Thursday but said that he would not resign.
Critics said the email forwarded by Speaker of the State House Mike O'Neal, that was later published by the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, called for Obama's death.
"The forward contained a single verse and was only intended as election commentary regarding the president's days in office. I have apologized, and I am sincerely sorry," O'Neal said in an email.
O'Neal's email sent to friends and colleagues cited part of Psalm 109:8 which in some interpretations reads: 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.'
The following verse reads, "May his children be orphans and his wife a widow."
Two pastors delivered a petition signed by 30,000 people demanding that the speaker resign. O'Neal issued an apology, but his communications director said the speaker would not be resigning.
"He is using sacred scripture to flippantly suggest people should be praying for the death of the president," said Michael Sherrard, a spokesman for Faithful America, an online interfaith community based in Washington that organized the petition.
Now, I don't agree with Obama on all his policies but this is out right foolish. If this is truly how Mike O'Neal feels about Obama then he has that right to feel the way he does. However, the fact he holds such a high position in government gives him more responsibility and it was very irresponsible of him to express those ideas to others in an email. Those kind of thoughts are not ones you express to the public. Not only is it irresponsible but it is full of hate. As a Christian I am embarrassed he used scriptures to back up his request. Even if you do not support Obama, to wish death on the man is having no respect for life. As Christians we should pray that Obama gains wisdom and knowledge...
Wishing death on a president is nothing new; in 2006 a movie called Death of a President was made about the assassination of George Bush.
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