Rod Parsley

In a story first reported by Brian Kaylor of EthicsDaily.com, James Robison has been bringing social conservative activists and televangelists from across the country together to strategize on how to prevent President Barack Obama from winning reelection. A who’s who of Religious Right leaders, including Don Wildmon, Tony Perkins, Richard Land, Rod Parsley, Jerry Boykin, Jim Garlow, Daniel Lapin, Kenneth Copeland, Harry Jackson and Sam Rodriguez attended the gathering hosted by Robison.

According to Kaylor’s report, Robison called the meetings an “absolute necessity and one of the ways the people of God’s Kingdom can leave His footprints on planet Earth, impacting our own great nation.” Robison, who was Mike Huckabee’s mentor and host of Life Today, recently spoke with Texas Gov. Rick Perry about how the economic crisis was needed to turn America back to God. Wildmon and Garlow are both closely involved in organizing Perry’s The Response prayer rally and Kaylor reports that the “group is connected to Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry's plan for a large prayer rally in August.” He writes:

According to a list obtained by EthicsDaily.com, among the attendees at the meeting were several Southern Baptist leaders: Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas who recently suggested on Fox News that Obama was a Muslim; Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; Richard Lee, pastor and the editor of the controversial The American Patriot's Bible; and former North American Mission Board head Bob Reccord, who now heads the semi-secretive group the Council for National Policy, founded by Tim LaHaye. Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University and son of the late founder of the Moral Majority, was scheduled to attend but couldn't make it.

Also attending the meeting were: Jacob Aranza, a minister who in the 1980s helped popularize the theory that rock ’n’ roll music included backmasked messages promoting drug use and sex; Vonette Bright, widow of Campus Crusade for Christ founder Bill Bright, who played a key role in conservative religious-political efforts that birthed the so-called "Religious Right"; Jerry Boykin, a former Pentagon official rebuked for violating policies by speaking in churches in uniform; Jim Garlow, chairman of Newt Gingrich's organization, Renewing American Leadership; Ruth Graham, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham; Harry Jackson, a politically active conservative pastor; David Lane, who has led several efforts to politically mobilize pastors; Ron Luce of Teen Mania Ministries; former Republican U.S. Rep. Bob McEwen; Rod Parsley, a controversial megachurch pastor who endorsed John McCain in 2008 before being rejected by McCain; Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leaders Conference; and Don Wildmon of the American Family Association.

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Tony Perkins, president of the James Dobson-founded Family Research Council, similarly praised Robison during the June 2 broadcast. Perkins attended both the September and June meetings.

"I sensed a new leadership that the Lord has called you to, in that there is a clear recognition that America needs to turn to God," Perkins said. "But I think what you're able to do as kind of a senior statesman of the church is to call together those leaders today that are emerging, and those that are present, to bring them together because unity is the key. I know one of the conversations we had is that you prayed for that unity among us. I think if we could ever be unified and we could walk together as a body of believers in this country that we could profoundly impact this nation."

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Robison and his group seem united in their opposition to Obama and their desire to see Obama defeated in 2012, but it remains to be seen if they can find a candidate who unites and activates them like Ronald Reagan did in 1980.

Watch Robison and Perkins explain America’s dire need for Godly leaders:

In the latest episode of Breakthrough with Rod Parsley, Parsley taught his congregation how to be “Rapture Ready,” which mainly consists of attending church and listening to Rod Parsley. The sermon was full of interesting tidbits about what happens during the rapture (of which Parsley apparently has intimate knowledge) including a dire prediction about the fate of liberal preachers:

Liberal Preachers are going to be the first ones running to churches like this, and have to stand up as the screaming hoards tried to destroy them, tried to kill them. Saying “you could have told me.” Your teenager’s parents will look at you and say “you could have told me. Why did you waste a bunch of time telling me how I ought to feel good about me? Why didn’t you tell me there’s no name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved except the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Why didn’t you tell me we were at war with radical Islam? Why didn’t you tell me that the antichrist spirit was trying to deceive me through movies, why didn’t you tell me?’ And that liberal preacher’s going to stand there and have to repent and say “I was wrong”

Add Rod Parsley to the emerging list of leaders backing Janet Porter’s extreme “heartbeat bill,” which would criminalize the vast majority of abortions in Ohio. Porter’s legislation has already won the support of prominent Republicans like Mike Huckabee, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Ken Blackwell, and the activist even brought in two pregnant women to the State House to have their fetuses “testify” in favor of the bill. Robin Marty of RH Reality Check writes that the heartbeat bill, if it became law, would “eliminate virtually all abortion” as it would prohibit a woman from terminating her pregnancy 18 to 24 days after conception.

Parsley, whose megachurch is based in Columbus, is a fervent anti-choice activist who believes that Planned Parenthood is controlled by Satan and plotting black genocide. According to Parsley, “there really shouldn’t be any debate where a Christian organization like ours should stand,” and encouraged the Republican governor and GOP-controlled legislature to back the bill. However, Ohio Right to Life Society opposes the bill because it is blatantly unconstitutional and will likely be overturned in court if signed into law.

“I hope that Ohio’s heartbeat bill becomes law this year,” Parsley said, “I also hope the bill becomes the focal point for pro-life activism across the nation, this year.” Porter, a Christian dominionist, already claims that legislators in states like Texas, Georgia, Arizona and Oklahoma want to introduce their own version of the “heartbeat bill” this year.

Every once in a while, Rod Parlsey takes a break from feverishly urging his audience and congregation to give him large sums of money so that God can bless them for their faithfulness so that he can focus on political issues.

Lately, his obsession has been "black genocide," the idea that some nefarious source is seeking to eliminate the African American community through legal abortion. And it was the topic he turned to again today, this time with the help of Star Parker as the two discussed how the fight against "black genocide" is just like the fight against slavery: