GOP Senators Appear on TV With Christian Martyrdom Advocate Lou Engle

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/12/17/17722/757/Front_Page/GOP_Senators_Appear_on_TV_With_Christian_Martyrdom_Advocate

Last night's segment of the Rachel Maddow show provided footage http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/6/2/83943/72096 Last night's segment of the Rachel Maddow show provided footage, which first appeared at Talk To Action http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/6/2/83943/72096 , of a Christian evangelist who is quite influential but also little known to secular Americans: Lou Engle, founder of TheCall http://www.thecall.com/ . The Maddow segment highlighted an event noted a few days ago by RightWingWatch, an anti-health care reform "Prayercast," held by the Family Research Council, led by emergent, highly militant leaders of the Christian right such as Lou Engle and also by Republican senators Brownback and DeMint, and GOP Representatives Bachmann and Forbes.


{ below: Michelle Bachmann leads "Prayercast" anti-healthcare reform prayer }


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AZAWKfbmvE

The GOP fab-four has scored a trifecta - Lou Engle is opposed to health care reform and legal abortion, and his organization TheCall played a major, if little noticed, role in passing California's Proposition 8.

Is the GOP becoming the party of violent Christian martyrdom ? Ask Jim DeMint, Sam Brownback, Michelle Bachmann and Randy Forbes.

A 2002 study http://www.theocracywatch.org/campaigns_elections_study.htm of the influence of the Christian right within the GOP indicated the movement exerted strong to moderate influence in a majority of state Republican Party structures. Over the current decade the Christian right has gone on to become dominated by a tendency that, during the 1990's, was associated with domestic terrorism. In 2009, top captains of the GOP now pay obeisance to radical Christian leaders who appear to advocate acts of Christian martyrdom, which some might call terrorism, to stop gay marriage and legal abortion.

Apparently, Brownback, DeMint, Bachmann and Forbes weren't deterred by the fact that Lou Engle has publicly made statements which resemble rhetoric deployed during the 1990's, by leaders of the anti-abortion movement, that helped incite domestic terrorism. But they weren't alone:

Engle, who has publicly called http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/11/4/14143/7617 for acts of Christian martyrdom, could be found last summer blessing and anointing http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/6/2/182337/6209/ Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee at a Virginia Beach megachurch. Engle represents a religious right tendency that had become so dominant that known potentates such as James Dobson and Tony Perkins travel to Engle's TheCall events - such as the San Diego stadium rally which served as the capstone to the successful anti-gay marriage Proposition Eight push in California.

{ below: Michelle Bachmann leads "Prayercast" anti-healthcare reform prayer }
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=/GBTtv7nTYzY



Engle's religious movement has also played a significant role http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/12/4/134435/084 in inspiring, and even organizing, legislators who pushed the pending, draconian anti-gay legislation in Uganda http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/slouching-toward-kampala that some have described as a "kill the gays" bill. TheCall may soon be bringing his message to that troubled country.

Much more at the link: http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/12/17/17722/757/Front_Page/GOP_Senators_Appear_on_TV_With_Christian_Martyrdom_Advocate

[Sukie]

1. This stuff is scary, folks. Really scary. This is where we

need to take our fight. Not amongst each other.

[Feron]

3. Indeed.

Engle is also the anti-abortion speaker in Jesus Camp. I knew I recognized him from somewhere.

[cliffordu]

2. I hope Lou is their first martyr...

[Turbineguy]

5. Oh no....

it doesn't work that way. What would be the point of collecting all that money if he was just going to do himself in?

[cliffordu]

6. Hey, ya wanna make an omelette....

[RedCloud]

4. Engle talks like a Nazi and his rants are not too far away from it.

[Shallah Kali]

7. Maddow show features footage of Lou Engle calling for acts of Christian martyrdom ]

sorry, I was supposted to post this in the original post instead of the same bachmann vid :blush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBTtv7nTYzY

[Shallah Kali]

8. kick

:kick: