Gary Dull

I Wonder Why No One Ever Thought of Holding a Prayer Vigil Before

Submitted by Christian on July 7, 2009 - 3:20pm

Gary Dull, leader of the Faith and Freedom Institute, who has also promised to rid America of its "satanic wickedness", has announced a prayer vigil that will take place tomorrow outside the White House. The purpose behind the vigil, among other things, is "to warn America that God may indeed bring judgment on the land if repentance is not conducted."

As Dull puts it, there are three objectives of the vigil:

1) To pray for America, as it is evident that the nation is rapidly falling away from the Judeo-Christian values upon which she was established.

2) To call America back to God by repenting of national and personal sins which have angered God.

3) To warn America that God may indeed bring judgment on the land if repentance is not conducted.

As Kyle previously noted, the Faith and Freedom Institute joins a seemingly endless group of right-wing organizations that promote the very same cause. And, like many of those groups, Dull has chosen to take the entirely predictable step of holding a "save America" prayer vigil.

Dull was unoriginal in his forming of a group to defend the ten commandments and Christmas, and he's unoriginal now in holding a prayer vigil like so many identical right-wing groups have done before him.

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Because What America Needs Now Is Another Right-Wing Group

Submitted by Kyle on March 24, 2009 - 10:29am

We've already written a few posts about a new group billing itself as The Faith and Freedom Institute, an affiliate of Faith and Action, which has pledged to rid America of "satanic wickedness" and bring the nation to Christ "in order to save the nation from the judgment of God."

Now WJAC TV in Pennsylvania has run a short profile of the new group in which its leader, Gary Dull, asserts that they are needed now more than ever because the Ten Commandments and Christmas are under attack and warns that "since we've taken God out of the center of what we are doing as a nation, we see so many adverse effects" and we are now on a "downward slope":

An Altoona pastor is receiving national attention as he's joined forces with two other ministries in an effort he said will bring America back to its Christian roots.

Pastor Gary Dull of the Faith Baptist Church in Altoona is one of the leaders spearheading the "Faith and Freedom Institute."

"When we look back in history we find that many times when the nation came up against a crisis, such as we are today, with the economic crisis, the national leaders would literally call for prayer," Dull said.

The institute's mission is to educate Americans on the Christian values that our country was founded on.

Dull said he's hoping to host a pastor's conference in the fall.

He's been in touch with other pastors in Florida, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Illinois. He's hoping other church leaders will be the first to spread the institute's message to their congregations.

The institute is also planning a radio talk show, "Sound of the Trumpet." It's expected to start this summer.

There are already dozen, if not hundreds, of groups just like this all over the country and, from what little we've been able to garner from the limited press this new group has received, nothing the Faith and Freedom Institute is going to do is going to be in any way different from anything all of the other groups are doing.

Defending the Ten Commandment and Christmas? Please, there are literally dozens of groups with the same mission. Reversing the nation's "downward spiral" into Godless? Get in line behind Vision America, Faith 2 Action, Wallbuilders, and the countless other groups created for the very same purpose.

Is Dull really unaware that there are already multiple groups doing the very same thing that his new groups intends to do? Does he really think that what is needed now is one more right-wing group to add its voice to the cacaphony?

Frankly, if these sorts of right-wing efforts were effective, Dull's group wouldn't even be necessary as the dozens of other groups committed to this same mission would have already saved the Ten Commandments and Christmas and reversed the nation's descent into heathenism.

But they haven't, as evidenced by that fact that Dull thinks that what is needed is a new group dedicated to exactly the same mission.

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Say Hello to The Faith and Freedom Institute and Goodbye to "Satanic Wickedness"

Submitted by Kyle on March 6, 2009 - 1:40pm

Yesterday we mentioned that there was a new Faith and Action affiliated right-wing group on the scene calling itself the Faith and Freedom Institute that believes that our nation's myriad of problems are caused by our "rejection of God and His values." NBC's Lauren Appelbaum reports that they are out to fix that:

In the wake of James Dobson retiring from Focus on the Family, leaving a possible vacuum of power in evangelical leadership, Dr. Gary Dull and other Christian leaders are forming The Faith and Freedom Institute to combat "satanic wickedness" in order to return America to a foundation of Biblical principles.

"America was founded with a spiritual basis, but there are those who want to make it a purely secular nation," Dull said near Capitol Hill Thursday. "Because of the rejection of God and His values, we can expect nothing but His judgment. All one needs to do is to read in history and find out how that when a nation forgot God, God forgot the nation."

That is where Dull says the Faith and Freedom Institute plans to step in. According to Dull, the Institute "is being formed to lead America back to the knowledge of God in order to save the nation from the judgment of God."

"Without a doubt, we believe that there is a definite agenda to destroy America that is being empowered by satanic wickedness and enhanced by Godless citizens," Dull said. "The Faith and Freedom Institute desires to put those who have an adverse vision for America on notice that we will not lie down and allow them to overtake us and our heritage, but that we will intend to stand up and fight for those rights given to us by God Himself and proclaimed by many who committed their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to make America work."

As a result, Dull blamed things like economic failure and moral decline to abortion and same-sex marriages on an idea that "God is being forgotten."

Dull said the new Christian conservative organization would provide educational opportunities in order to motivate leaders to call for a return to God and basic values.

"The Faith and Forum Institute intends to motivate religious, governmental and social leaders, as well as the general public to confess the sins of forgetting God and His word, to repent and turn back to God, and begin to live by the values that made America great," Dull said.

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Faith And Action's Tangled Web

Submitted by Kyle on March 5, 2009 - 10:00am

A few weeks back, Faith and Action's Rob Schenck provided a video update in which he reported that Focus on the Family's new lobbyist to Capitol Hill, former Bush administration aide Tim Goeglein, would soon be sharing office space with them.

Shortly after we highlighted the video, Faith and Action yanked it down, but in it Schenck related how their office was actually the office of several allied ministries as well including the Christian Defense Coalition, Priests for Life, the National Pro-Life Action Center, the Judicial Action Group, and the Life Education and Resource Network.

In fact, there are so many different organization operating out of that office and being run by people with ties to Faith and Action that it is almost impossible to tell them apart. For instance, Schenck and Christian Defense Coalition Director Patrick Mahoney regularly work together, like when they got together to annoint the door through which Barack Obama would walk on his way to his inauguration.

Priests for Life is run by Frank Pavone, who is also a trustee at Faith and Action, as well as president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council and Pastoral Director of Rachel’s Vinyard.

The National Pro-Life Action Center is run by Paul Schenck, Rob's twin brother, who is Chairman of Faith and Action as well as the Chief Operating Officer for National Pro-Life Radio, which itself was founded by Stephen Peroutka, who just so happens to also be the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Pro-Life Action Center. National Pro-Life Radio's on air broadcasters include Frank Pavone, Paul Schenck, and Rob Schenck, as well as other allies like Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union and Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice who has his own close ties to Rob and Paul Schenck.

As for Rob Schenck, in addition to being a co-founder of Faith and Action, he is also president of the National Clergy Council. Among the board members of the NCC are Patrick Mahoney of the CDC as well as a man named Gary Dull, who is also an executive board member of Faith and Action.

All of which is a long way of saying that it looks like we'll soon have yet another Faith and Action-related group to try and keep an eye on because Dull is set to announce that he is starting his own new right-wing organization to confront the problem of godlessness in America:

Why is the USA in the midst of a great economic crisis? Why is there so much corruption in government? Why are American marriages breaking up at the rate of nearly 50%? Could it be that there is a root cause that many are overlooking? Could it be that the America we love is facing the judgment of God due to rejecting His laws regarding abortion, same-sex marriages, the public display of God in public spaces, trying to borrow our way into wealth, and the funding of godless programs? It appears that we too often attempt to fix the symptom of the problem, as the root of the problem continues to eat at the very core of the nation.

Today, Faith and Action in the Nation's Capitol, HOPE Ministries of Hickory, NC, and The Way of Truth Ministries of Altoona, PA are announcing the formation of THE FAITH AND FREEDOM INSTITUTE for the purpose of motivating religious, governmental, and community leaders to call our nation back to its basic values defined in historical documents. The vision of TFFI will be to perpetuate true patriotism and generate a genuine desire for biblical values in churches, schools and governmental entities within the USA.

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Today (March 5) at 4:00 PM, a press conference will be held by the organizers to TFFI at the headquarters of the Faith and Action Ministry at 109 2nd Street, NW Washington (behind the Supreme Court) to explain the mission and objectives of the organization.