"Two weeks before being tapped for the GOP ticket, Palin was in attendance at her current congregation, Wasilla Bible Church, when a leader of Jews for Jesus described terrorist attacks against Israel as "judgment" against those who have not accepted Christianity.
While a spokesman for Palin has said that Palin rejects this view, the McCain-Palin campaign has declined to say whether she shares her pastor's general support for Jews for Jesus, a group that tells people they can embrace Jesus and still remain true to Judaism.
Attention is also on Palin's involvement in a 2005 service at the Wasilla Assembly of God church. The video of the service shows a Kenyan pastor, Thomas Muthee, blessing Palin, and urging Jesus to protect her from "the spirit of witchcraft."
Critics are increasingly focusing on the speech that the clergyman gave before he brought Palin to the stage.
Muthee called for "God's kingdom" to "infiltrate" seven aspects of society, including economics.
"It is high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity, running the economics of our nations," he said. "That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the Israelites, you know, that's how they won. And that's how they are, even today.""...