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Wiley Drake
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Wiley Drake, the one time
second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention and the man who last
year served as Alan Keyes' running mate, weighs in on the murder
of George Tiller, calling his assassination the answer to their imprecatory prayers:
While most pro-life leaders condemned the May 31 murder of a controversial abortion provider inside his Wichita, Kan., church, one former Southern Baptist Convention official called it an answer to prayer."I am glad George Tiller is dead," Wiley Drake, the SBC's former second vice president, said on his Crusade Radio program June 1....Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., called Tiller "a brutal, murdering monster" and said he is "grateful to God" that the physician is no longer around."There may be a lot who would say, 'Oh that is mean. You shouldn't be that way,'" Drake said. "Well, no, it's an answer to prayer."Drake said he prayed nearly 10 years for the salvation of Tiller, medical director of the Women's Health Care Services clinic and an outspoken advocate for abortion rights. About a year ago, Drake said, he switched to what he called "imprecatory prayer.""I said to the Lord, 'Lord I pray back to you the Psalms, where it says that they are to become widowers and their children are to become orphans and so forth.' And we began calling for those imprecatory prayers, because he had obviously turned his back on God again and again and again," Drake said.Drake called Tiller "a reprobate" and a "brutal, arrogant murderer" who "bragged on his own website how many babies he had killed."
"Would you have rejoiced when Adolf Hitler died during the war?" Drake asked. "Or would you have said, 'Oh that is terrible for him to be killed'? No, I would have said, 'Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah, I'm glad he's dead.'""This man, George Tiller, was far greater in his atrocities than Adolf Hitler," Drake said. "So I am happy. I am glad that he is dead. Now I am sad that he went to hell, because he had a choice just like everybody else did. He could have chosen Jesus Christ and when he died went to heaven. But he chose the devil. He chose to neglect, he chose to reject Jesus Christ. And therefore on Sunday morning when he breathed his last breath there in the Lutheran church, he breathed his last breath, and he slipped into the presence of the devil. And I have a strange hunch and a strange feeling that there is a special, superheated, super-hot place in hell for people like George Tiller."
The article notes that this is not the
first time Drake has called for imprecatory prayer against his enemies - he
also issued a similar call in 2007 against Americans United for
Separation of Church and State.
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wiley-drake-prays-obamas-death
Wiley Drake Prays For Obama's Death
Submitted
by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 6/4/2009 5:39 pm
The other
day I noted that Wiley Drake, Alan Keyes' vice-presidential running mate, had declared
that George Tiller's murder had been the answer to his "imprecatory"
prayers.
Now Drake
has proclaimed that he is likewise issuing such prayers against President Obama in
hopes that he also dies:
A former Southern Baptist Convention officer who on June 2 called the death of abortion provider George Tiller an answer to prayer said later in the day he is also praying "imprecatory prayer" against President Obama.Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., and former running mate of American Independent Party presidential candidate Alan Keyes, said June 2 on Fox News Radio he didn't understand why people were upset with his comments quoted by Associated Baptist Press from a webcast of his daily radio talk show."Imprecatory prayer is agreeing with God, and if people don't like that, they need to talk to God," Drake told syndicated talk-show host Alan Colmes. "God said it, I didn't. I was just agreeing with God."Asked if there are others for whom Drake is praying "imprecatory prayer," Drake hesitated before answering that there are several. "The usurper that is in the White House is one, B. Hussein Obama," he said.Later in the interview, Colmes returned to Drake's answer to make sure he heard him right."Are you praying for his death?" Colmes asked."Yes," Drake replied."So you're praying for the death of the president of the United States?""Yes."Colmes asked Drake if he was concerned that by saying that he might be placed on a Secret Service or FBI watch list, and if he believed it appropriate to talk or pray that way."I think it's appropriate to pray the Word of God," Drake said. "I'm not saying anything. What I am doing is repeating what God is saying, and if that puts me on somebody's list, then I'll just have to be on their list.""You would like for the president of the United States to die?" Colmes asked once more."If he does not turn to God and does not turn his life around, I am asking God to enforce imprecatory prayers that are throughout the Scripture that would cause him death, that's correct."
Audio of the exchange is available from Fox News:
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Wiley S. Drake (born November 23, 1943)
is a California-based minister and radio host. He was the vice-presidential
candidate for the American Independent Party ticket in California in 2008.
Drake has drawn controversy for his use of imprecatory prayer. He is the pastor
of the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park in Buena Park, California.
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