At a morning sermon Sunday in Northern Virginia, Republican
lieutenant governor candidate E.W. Jackson, a Chesapeake pastor, said
people who don't follow Jesus Christ "are engaged in some sort of false
religion."

Jackson offered that view while describing a list of the
"controversial" things he believes, and that must be said, as a Christian.

"Any time you say, 'There is no other means of salvation but
through Jesus Christ, and if you don't know him and you don't follow him
and you don't go through him, you are engaged in some sort of false
religion,' that's controversial. But it's the truth," Jackson said,
according to a recording of the sermon by a Democratic tracker. "Jesus
said, 'I am the way the truth and the light. No man comes unto the
Father but by me.'"

It is not the first time Jackson has weighed in with controversial
comments on questions of faith and social issues. He has also said that
gay people’s “minds are perverted. They are frankly very sick people
psychologically and mentally and emotionally.”

The Web site of the Restoration Fellowship Church in Strasburg, where
Jackson spoke Sunday, includes a recording of Jackson’s sermon. But a
short section that included the “false religion” comment was missing
from that part of the recording.

The church’s pastor, Jay Ahlemann, said he agrees with Jackson’s
interpretation of scripture. He also said a member of his church staff
told him nothing had been deleted from the recording.

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And once again, religion pulls politics into religion's crock of crap.