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Via Politico:
Even evangelicals should pray for President Barack Obama, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) said at a gathering of religious conservatives on Friday.
“You know, I think we are called to pray. We are called to pray for our country, for our leaders, and yes, even our president,” Perdue said during the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to the Majority conference in Washington. “You know, in his role as president, I think we should pray for Barack Obama.”
But not just any prayer, he suggested, telling attendees that “we need to be very specific about how we pray.”
“We should pray like Psalms 109:8 says. It says, ‘Let his days be few, and let another have his office,'” Perdue said, to laughter and applause. “In all seriousness, I believe that America is at a moment of crisis.”
After Politico first posted the above story, a spokesman for Purdue wrote to them:
“He in no way wishes harm towards our president and everyone in the room understood that. However, we should add the media to our prayer list because they are pushing a narrative to create controversy and that is exactly what the American people are tired of.”
Since 2008 Christian pastors have regularly made national news for invoking Psalm 109 in their prayers for God to murder the president. Here’s more of that charming bit of Christian love:
May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership. May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes. May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children. May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
T-shirts and bumper stickers bearing the Psalm 109 message have been available since Obama took office.