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Ward Churchill is, from what I can see, a pompous goofball and manipulative fraud, but … well … nobody deserves this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Christian group departed from its normal mission of protesting abortions to march on the offices of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill on Tuesday. About 100 members of Operation Save America gathered at CU’s Ketchum Building, where Churchill has a basement office, to pray for his salvation.<\/p>\n

“That’s the power of Christ, to set the captive free from the lies and from those demons that are inhabiting Ward,” the Rev. Flip Benham, of Concord, N.C., told the gathering.<\/p>\n

Not sure why Christ’s power couldn’t operate just as well if they were simply praying back at their hotel rooms, but that likely wouldn’t have garnered the same media attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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