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Religious Right Quiet on Libby Indictment
...Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, issued a public call for Clinton to resign and for his congregation, Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Ark., to exercise church discipline as mandated by Scripture.

In one article Mohler criticized "Bill's Baptist buddies," religious-left activists that a Newsweek article said enabled Clinton's lack of personal responsibility. The article "goes far in explaining the president's twisted moral worldview," Mohler wrote. "But it also serves as an indictment of the generation of liberal Baptist leaders who served as Bill Clinton's moral advisers, and are now his enablers in a lifestyle of gross immorality."

Neither Patterson, Land nor Mohler has commented publicly on Libby, the first sitting White House staffer to be indicted in 135 years, though Land has reportedly been in recent contact with Rove discussing the president's Supreme Court nominees.

"The religious right is wrong to remain silent about the evil spirit that infects the White House, causing senior administration officials to smear a man who challenged the primary justification for the preemptive war against Iraq and to lie repeatedly about what they did," said Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics.

"The religious right demonstrates yet again that they are court prophets—prophets that do what the king wants and not what God requires," Parham said. "The biblical witness clearly identifies such prophets as false prophets. True prophets would speak forcefully to the White House about doing the right thing, instead of hiding behind legal arguments."