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Shouldn’t this disqualify their churches from tax exempt status?
In a sane, non corrupt country yes.
also, this is skirting the line of inciting insurrection. The pastor was clearly espousing the belief that their role should be to control and dominate the rest of the world, as christians. IE, it’s their divine mandate to seize control of our government.
This has been their way for quite some time. The Christian Nationalists believe that this is a Christian nation, that all people of different religious beliefs should be second class citizens at best, and that the country should be run via Christian rules.
But not “Jesus gives free healthcare, feeds the hungry, and opposes the wealthy” Christianity. That’s the “wrong” Christianity. They want this country run using their Christian rules and the rest of us can convert or else.
They believe that all the Founding Fathers were Christians like them despite all evidence that they weren’t. They believe that the Founding Fathers wanted this nation run as a theocracy, despite all the evidence that this isn’t true. They don’t care because all they want is the power to mold this country as they see fit and over the objections of the rest of us.
And, alarmingly, they’re getting closer and closer to achieving their goal.
If these assholes get power, what will happen to me and my LGBT friends?
According to Speaker Johnson, gay sex will be criminalized, marriage equality will be banned, birth control will be strictly regulated, and everyone will be forced to live their lives according to Johnson’s version of Christianity.
I’m not LGBTQ, but I have LGBTQ friends. I’m also Jewish and have no intentions of letting anyone force me to live my life by another religion’s rules. My religious beliefs are my own. They bind me and don’t apply to anyone else. Similarly, someone else’s religious beliefs shouldn’t bind me or anyone else.
Magic 8-ball says…
Outlook is bleak
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Lance Wallnau — the chief promoter of a “Seven Mountains Mandate” for right-wing Christians to seize control over government and culture — was dressed in a tux and streaming live to his 1 million Facebook followers.
As he filmed with his cell phone, Wallnau grabbed co-religionist Jim Garlow — the MAGA pastor with whom now-House Speaker Mike Johnson recently prayed to spare a “depraved” America from the “judgment that we clearly deserve.” Both religious figures are associated with an evangelical movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, or NAR, which has an unusual obsession with earthly power.
The duo engaged in jocular banter during the stream on Friday: “You can read about you in the news lately,” Wallnau ribbed Garlow, referring to Rolling Stone’s coverage of the pastor’s prayer call with Johnson.
The fact that Garlow and Wallnau were palling around in tuxedos at Mar-a-Lago the same week that their religious movement made national news for its troubling reach into the highest ranks of elected Republican politics, was itself another remarkable sign of that influence.
Schindler is also a pastor who works closely with Garlow; they co-founded the World Prayer Network, which hosted the call where Mike Johnson decried the rise of LGBTQ children as evidence of America’s “dark” and nearly “irredeemable” culture.
Boldface MAGA names included former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz, former Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway, and former acting attorney general (and well-endowed-man toilet promoter) Matt Whitaker.
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