Scripture experts decry praying for others' misfortune

This guy really needs to find another line of work. He doesn't seem to have the right temperament for pastoring. At least not to my mind.

Until last week, "imprecatory prayer" was not in many people's vocabularies.

But then the Rev. Wiley Drake, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Buena Park, Calif., urged supporters to use Psalm 109 to focus prayers directed at the "enemies of God," including the leaders of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Drake was urging the use of imprecatory prayer: prayers for another's misfortune or for vengeance against God's enemies. Now such prayer is the talk of blogs and letters to the editor.

Via Seattle Times.