For Immediate Release: Pastor Cary responds to Gov. Culver

As reported by KTIV News last night, Gov. Culver announced (during the “lightning round” of the debate) that he would vote “YES” on judicial retention and punish churches that instruct their congregations on how to vote. Below, please enjoy my response to the governors inane remarks…to be shared with all media outlets.

“What power does Governor Chet Culver now pretend to wield? Is it the “Divine Right of Kings” our forefathers risked their lives to narrowly escape 243 years ago? The only situation, I suppose, in which Mr. Culver’s threat to “punish churches” might engender genuine fear in the more than 200 churches now standing in solidarity with me against judicial retention, is if we believe his activist partners on the State Supreme Court might use their newly discovered “powers of fiat” to force Iowa churches to accept Chet Culver as the “Iowa Czar of church budgets.”

Indeed, such a threat would financially destroy our ministries as effectively as his economic policies have harmed the state of Iowa. Of this, I have no doubt! If Mr. Culver and Bob Ray insist on supporting judicial activism that ignores the “nature and nature’s God” revered in the preamble of the Iowa Constitution and the organic law of the Declaration of Independence, then I insist they go to www.wigs.com and provide our Supreme Court with seven colonial wigs. After all, if the people of Iowa are to be ruled by judges, they might as well dress appropriately.

Finally, I shall lunge beneath the protection of the Eighth Amendment to the Bill to Rights, which forbids “excessive punishment,” for…alas…Governor Culver’s financial and moral ineptitude has been punishment enough for all Iowans, particularly churches now struggling to survive in Iowa’s poor economic climate.”

Rev. Cary K. Gordon

President, PeaceMakers Institute