Atrios uncovered a doozy today.
At an event in Iowa yesterday, Bush invited Mike and Sharla Hintz to serve as an example of the typical, hard-working American family that has benefited from a series of tax cuts aimed at the wealthy. Mr. Hintz seemed particularly enthusiastic.
Mike Hintz, a First Assembly of God youth pastor, said the tax cuts also gave him additional money to use for health care.
He said he supports Bush’s values.
“The American people are starting to see what kind of leader President Bush is. People know where he stands,” he said.
“Where we are in this world, with not just the war on terror, but with the war with our culture that’s going on, I think we need a man that is going to be in the White House like President Bush, that’s going to stand by what he believes.”
Sounds like Bush’s kind of photo-op, right? Wrong.
A Des Moines youth pastor is charged with the sexual exploitation of a child.
KCCI learned that the married father of four recently turned himself in to Johnston police.
Rev. Mike Hintz was fired from the First Assembly of God Church, located at 2725 Merle Hay Road, on Oct. 30. Hintz was the youth pastor there for three years.
Police said he started an affair with a 17-year-old in the church youth group this spring.
“War with our culture” indeed.