Now that the mainstream media has adopted the narrative that Nevada Republican Senate Candidate Sharron Angle is a “nutcase”, you know what’s coming next right? Wait for it…wait for it… the big expose on her Church! It hasn’t been done yet but you just know some big publication is going to do that story. It fits the liberal narrative and equation. See the math below:
Christian Woman
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Tea Party
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NRA member
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Home School Mom
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Pro-Life
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Rural area
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Evangelical Weirdo
This same thing happened to Sarah Palin and countless other Evangelical conservative women. Quite frankly, this sort of reasoning is not only untrue it is journalistically lazy.
For those who are curious, Angle attends Fellowship Community Church in Reno. When you go to the website, Sharron and her husband Ted are listed as one of the couples who host a weekly home Bible study group. Ted Angle is also listed as “Director of Senior Adults” and he’s a Deacon at the Church. (picture of both of them below)
Here’s a look at how her Church describes its view of The Bible:
BIBLE AS OUR SOLE AUTHORITY
“The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true and make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us to do what is right.” (2 Tim. 3:15)
"Since God’s Word is the only completely reliable and truthful authority, we accept the Bible as our manual for living. Our first question when faced with a decision is “What does the Bible say?” We practice daily Bible reading, Bible study, and Bible memorization. The Bible is the basis for all we believe."
More on what the Church believes here.
Earlier in her life, Angle was a teacher and, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a “one-room Christian school in a converted classroom at the Word of Light church in Winnemucca, Nevada.” Well, during the Republican primary, Angle’s opponent. Sue Lowden questioned whether that was really true. It turns out it is true. More here.
The Brody File has found a picture of Angle from those days at World of Light Christian Academy in the early 80’s. See below. (Angle is standing in the middle at the podium)
Also, for your reading pleasure, check out some of these excerpts about Angle's faith and her Church experience from The Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Sharron Angle was turning cartwheels to amuse her son when she felt a stitch in her side. Later, her legs went numb, one foot dragged. For months, doctors couldn’t find anything wrong until a specialist dropped a bomb: A tumor was blocking her spinal fluid. She was heading toward paralysis.
The doctor gave her a 50 percent chance of living through an operation to fix the problem, and a 20 percent chance of ever walking again. Angle’s husband, Ted, prayed over her, and the nurses cried.
“I said, ‘I’ll be healed here or in Heaven,’” Angle recalls of the medical crisis in 1977 that led to her conversion, which was political, not religious, in nature. After her recovery, a friend told Angle she had seen Deborah from the Bible in a dream about her, though she didn’t know what it meant. Angle knew.
“Deborah was really the first woman politician,” Angle says of the judge, prophetess and heroine of the Old Testament who inspired the longtime teacher to get into politics.
“When you see God move in these kinds of ways, you see God is real,” Angle says. “Every breath I have taken since 1977 has been a gift. All of a sudden I was changed. My life had a purpose.”
She attends the Fellowship Community Church in Reno regularly, prays daily and says grace before each meal.
"I've never been a Sunday only kind of Christian" says the Southern Baptist.
She and her husband have both been bitten by dogs over the years while campaigning door to door.
"She is so involved in her calling, which is politics. This is her talent," Ted Angle says on a Sunday after the couple sat for a sermon with the message that people must use their God-given gifts.
At Fellowship Community Church, Pastor Frank Bushey mixes a bit of Bible wisdom from the parable of the talents, Matthew 25:14-30, with modern day advice about managing resources during economic hard times as Nevada faces record unemployment and home foreclosures.
"God loans you what you have and you get to manage it," Bushey says to the congregation, which responds with head nods and a few calls of "Amen." "We thought we had it all, didn't we? How many people have lost their jobs? How many people have lost their homes? I'm OK with that, if that's what it takes for God to get our attention."
It's a harsh message, but also one steeped in conservative values where people must work hard for what they get and not count on government or anybody else to bail them out.
"We are bailing everybody out," the pastor complains, raising his voice in disapproval. "Did you get bailed out? No? GM got bailed out. The banks got bailed out."