Capitol Circus: Religious Right Leaders Plan D.C. Prayer Rally For `Evil' America
So what is Come Pray With Me, and why does it merit this honor? I've been looking into that. The organization was founded by a man named Dan Cummins, pastor of Bridlewood Church in Bullard, Texas. Come Pray With Me is described as an organization that exists to encourage people to pray for the country and its leaders. That sounds harmless enough. Americans pray for their nation all of the time. But, as is often the case with the Religious Right, there's more going on here. When I visited Come Pray With Me's website to get information about the May 8 event, I immediately noticed that all of the speakers are far-right zealots. They include Jim Garlow, a California pastor active in Republican politics who has openly endorsed candidates from the pulpit; Bishop Harry Jackson, a Maryland preacher known for anti-gay activism; Alveda King of the extreme anti-abortion outfit Priests for Life and David Barton, the Religious Right's favorite pseudo-historian. Then I watched a video of Cummins speaking in Tyler, Texas, in April of 2011 and noticed that it was the usual combination of Religious Right fringe politics mixed with fundamentalist theology. Cummins' rant was a bizarre cocktail of crazy, mixing assertions that America is a "Christian nation" and attacks on legal abortion and marriage equality with assaults on the Supreme Court's school prayer decisions and topping it all with a dose of birtherism. I noticed that Cummins had written a book titled The Church: In a State of Separation. It was available for free on the church website, so I downloaded it to take a look. Let's just say it was "enlightening." In fact, my brain is still spinning from this kooky tome. Here are some of the things that are in this book:
Here's what amazes me about guys like Cummins: They claim to love America and make a big show of their alleged patriotism. It's always flag waving, the Pledge of Allegiance and "God Bless the U.S.A." with this crowd. Yet even a glance at his book shows that it just drips with contempt for this nation and the people who live in it. We're all a bunch of dupes for the communists and the Fabian socialists who can't wait to tear down the nation; we're "evil" and easily misled. We've turned our backs on all that is good and decent. Ultimately, we're so stupid we've been sucked into doing Satan's bidding - even some of our churches are in on it! At one point in his book, Cummins blasts the Democrats for entertaining "such a diverse immoral circus under its liberal big top." After reading his hateful book, I've concluded that the only guy with a circus is Cummins. He's its chief clown, and I see no reason why he should receive an invitation to set up his sideshow tent in the U.S. Capitol. Speaker John Boehner, do the right thing and kick these birds out of Statuary Hall.
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