Some leader (President Obama, are you listening?) needs to tell rabble-rousers such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to lay off. The shooter of Trayvon Martin has been forced to go into hiding as a group favored by the Obama administration, the New Black Panthers, has put a bounty on his head and others, including Sharpton, are demanding his arrest. Our economically and socially strained society is fragile enough without these race hustlers. Despite the many awful racist acts of the past, mob justice is not the American way. Are we America, or Pakistan?
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About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers. Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
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