"Pretend it's Obama"

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decay wrote:
(From the Washington Times, 12/27/96, page A5.)

"God will hold you to account, Mr. President."

"--Rev. Rob Shenck, to President Clinton during a Christmas Eve church service at the Washington National Cathedral, referring to the president's veto of a ban on partial-birth abortion. After the service, Rev. Shenck was detained by Secret Service agents who accused him of threatening the President's life. No charges were filed."

There's a little more to that story. The Shenck twins (appropriately rhymes with wank) have been involved in militant anti-choice activities and this was not their first law enforcment run in involving Pres. Clinton. If a person of that persuasion and history said to me or anyone "God will hold you to account" I would definitely treat it as a death threat.
I didn't think this was said "from the pulpit" because I can't imagine that anyone would let Shenck officiate at the National Cathedral. I thought he just walked up to the President and said that.
Not taking those people seriously has left a trail of dead and injured people.