Katherine Harris’ Favorite Charity Is Weird

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To compensate for breaking $2800 worth of very, very fancy bread with the felonious Mitchell Wade, Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) gave $100 to a charity, the Orlando Sentinel reported today.

A number of you noted the name of the charity — Global Dominion Impact Ministries — and thought it sounded, well, a little odd. And it is.

Before we get into the details, check this out: the group gives out free email addresses: [yourname]@globaldominionministries.com.

I honestly can’t think of anything cooler. Hurry and get one now, before they run out of good Christian mercy and shut the thing down.

According to its Web site, GDIM is a husband-and-wife operation out of Jacksonville, Florida. The husband — alternately referred to as “Bishop Lewis,” “Bishop Lewes” and “Bishop Jones,” all in the span of one paragraph — has your typical religious resume: met God at 15, burned with holy fire for three days, made a bishop by a Guyanese religious leader in 1995.

His wife of 29 years, Pastor Sandra, is the standout. She was “sold to devils” as an infant (this must be a figure of speech, and a disturbing one, we soberly note). She also says she was “raised from the dead,” a claim which strikes some of our more Christian readers as blasphemous, but which also may give great hope to the Harris campaign.

Of course, there are the kids. The Bishop and Pastor “have four children,” the web site states authoritatively, then lists them by name and age: “Louis twelve, Sharon thirteen, Sharlene twenty three, Sharmaine 30 and Garma age 30.”

If you aren’t laughing yet, read that paragraph again.

The prophetic couple “boldly proclaim[s] that the coming end-time revival will eclipse any revival yet seen in the church history,” the site says.

Maybe Harris is counting on this to happen before November, and swing 30 percent of the Florida vote to her side? Kind of a cataclysmic October Surprise?

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