As Secretary of State, Blackwell oversaw the 2004 election in Ohio - one of the most questionable in the country - even as he chaired the Bush re-election campaign in that state. He saw no conflict of interest in his duo role. His latest antic, reported in the New York Times is truly bizarre.

Voters in Ohio can be forgiven if they feel they have been beamed out of the Midwest and dropped into a third-world autocracy. The latest news from the state's governor's race is that the Republican nominee, Kenneth Blackwell, who is also the Ohio secretary of state, could rule that his opponent is ineligible to run because of a technicality.

Tom DeLay, trained by God

The list of shady dealings of Tom DeLay, former House Majority leader, is too long to list here. But he never doubted that he was working for God. He said at Worldview Weekend,

He [God] has been walking me through an incredible journey, and it all comes down to worldview. He is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me, He is working with me.

Ralph Reed, God Not Government

Ralph Reed deserves the credit for getting most of the Christian right politicians in
Congress today elected. As Executive Director of Christian Coalition during the nineties, he combined stealth campaigns, nasty attacks, and clever political techniques to mobilize voters in evangelical churches. His own meteoric rise in politics just plummeted because of his shady work with convicted lobbyist, Jack Abramoff.

Ralph Reed wrote a book in 1996 called Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics. In that book he wrote

The surest antidote to tyranny is a free people who believe it owes its allegiance to a Higher Power, not the government. The consent of the governed rests upon faith in a sovereign God. Faith as a political force is the very essence of Democracy.

A Pentecostal pastor, genocide, and "the hand of God:" when the righteous have absolute power

Christianity Today reported on the former Guatemalan military ruler Efrain Rios Montt and Guatemalan genocide:

A Spanish court issued an arrest warrant on July 7 for former Guatemalan military ruler Efrain Rios Montt, charging him and seven other leaders with genocide, terrorism, and state-sponsored torture.

The general, lay pastor of the Pentecostal Verbo Church, was a darling of American TV preachers and evangelists such as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Luis Palau. In 1983, Palau told the evangelical magazine, "It's great to have a Christian president as a model. The hand of God appears to be on him."

When the righteous rule, God help us.