Democratic gubernatorial nominee Yolanda Flowers announced she and her team are fasting and praying from midnight until noon for the week leading up to Alabama’s midterm elections on Nov. 8.
“I come with the perspective – and I make no slight of it – my campaign is based on the word of God,”June 21 and will face Republican incumbent Gov. Kay Ivey in the midterms Tuesday, along with Libertarian candidate Jimmy Blake.
In addition to the three candidates on the ballot, Independent party candidate Jared Budlong has organized a write-in campaign. Flowers also has gone live from her Facebook page each night of the fast and has prayed about specific topics each night, including lying in positions of power and conditions in Alabama’s criminal justice system and correctional facilities.
“We’re going on the principle of what God says, Christ says, in Matthew 16: That whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven,” Flowers said during. “And so that’s why we’re doing this fast and why we are fasting and praying; we’re binding the spirits that lay in hold of our state.”
Flowers received mixed reactions to her statements on social media. Many commenters on Facebook were supportive, while Twitter users voiced more discontent.Others said they were praying with her.“I really want a democrat in office but this skydaddy crap needs to stay out of politics. You have the right to your religion but not the right to force it on me,”fasting and praying…. no thanks. separation of church and state are a must. especially in the south.
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