Four Year Old Articles Do Not Qualify as “Current�?

Take a look at the Vision America website and you’ll notice a new story listed under the “Current News” section.  The story, “Patriot Pastors” by Candi Cushman, lists the date as “Friday, July 21, 2006.” 

It begins

Little did David Nelson know that his preconceived ideas about politics and the pulpit were about to change forever. As a youth minister of Smith Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Tatum, Texas, and a “born Democrat,” he rarely mixed with conservative activist pastors. Now they were sitting all around him, and he wasn’t happy.

At first, “I didn’t see men,” he told Citizen. “I saw a class of people.”

Four years ago, an article called “Patriot Pastors” written by Candi Cushman appeared in Focus on the Family’s “Citizen” magazine.  It begins

Little did David Nelson know that his preconceived ideas about politics and the pulpit were about to change forever. As a youth minister of Smith Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Tatum, Texas, and a “born Democrat,” he rarely mixed with conservative activist pastors. Now they were sitting all around him, and he wasn’t happy.

At first, “I didn’t see men,” he told Citizen. “I saw a class of people.”

The article goes on the mention Vision America’s founder Rick Scarborough so that probably explains why it was posted on the Vision America website, though it doesn’t explain why VA tried to make it appear as if this was a recent story.  

Perhaps the fact that Scarborough hasn’t been mentioned in any press in weeks might have something to do with it.