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Remembering 9/11 By Crying Out For America

Submitted by Kyle on September 8, 2009 - 12:25pm

On the upcoming anniversary of 9/11, an organization known as the Awakening America Alliance will be holding an event entitled "Cry Out America" seeking God's blessing for America and praying for a "great awakening" throughout the nation:

America is in need of a new “Great Awakening” – an awakening that some Christian leaders say can only come about if Christians get on their knees.

“America right now is facing great complexities. We have a financial struggle that we’re in, we’re facing health-care issues that have us scratching our heads. Our place in the world has shifted. We’re a nation that really needs help from beyond ourselves. We feel like God is the help,” The Rev. William (Billy) Wilson told CNSNews.com.

Wilson, executive director of the International Center for Spiritual Renewal, is a member of the Awakening America Alliance, which is sponsoring “Cry Out America” on Friday, Sept. 11 -- an event calling for thousands of Christians to “gather at noon at county courthouses across the nation in repentance, to pray for the lost, to cry out for God to send another ‘Great Awakening.’”

It is an awakening that can only come about if Christians “wake up” and unite in prayer, Wilson said.

The event is reportedly being endorsed by groups like Focus On The Family, the American Legion, the National Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Evangelicals.

The Awakening America Executive Cabinet includes various Religious Right figures like Wellington Boone, Harry Jackson, and Ron Luce.

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FRC's Lou Engle-Less "Call"

Submitted by Kyle on May 19, 2009 - 3:42pm

It seems that all the time that Tony Perkins has spent hanging out with Lou Engle, founder of "The Call," has given him a brilliant new idea: he should do the exact same thing!

I mentioned Perkins' new Call 2 Fall effort yesterday, but didn't really know much about what it was supposed to do. But today he and his partners - including Richard Land, Wellington Boone, and Harry Jackson - held a conference call to explain it:

Churches and individuals are invited to answer the Call 2 Fall on Sunday, July 5. The initiative is aimed at praying for the healing of America and declaring dependence on God immediately after celebrating the nation's independence from Great Britain.

"It's incumbent upon the church to assume the responsibility for where the nation is and leading us forward, not from a political standpoint but from a spiritual standpoint," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said. "If the spiritual things are in order, the political things seem to be a lot easier to solve."

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Family Research Council has set a goal of seeing 8 million Christians in 40,000 churches participate in Call 2 Fall, and church leaders are encouraged to offer their buildings as host sites July 5. FRC will publish an online directory of those churches so that people will know where they can participate.

Observances can take several forms, Perkins said, from a three- to five-minute period during a worship service when people would get on their knees and pray to a full day of praying and expressing dependence on God. Those who commit to participate will receive periodic e-mails linking to resources such as free devotionals, inspirational videos, sermon outlines, bulletin inserts and prayer suggestions.

"From homosexual 'marriage' to proposed curbs on religious speech, there are serious matters for the church to address humbly and with great earnestness before God," Perkins said.

While Perkins insisted that this was not a political effort, Harry Jackson saw it a bit differently, suggesting that it might be the beginning of a new "civil rights movement" aimed at fighting the oppression of Christians:

"What we need is something like the civil rights movement of the last century that brought liberty and freedom to African Americans as a discriminated people in the nation," Jackson said. "We need to recognize that if we do not ... aggressively seek God in these spiritual things, the Christian community is going to be an oppressed people, discriminated against and put down by this culture that God has ordained that we turn around."

Land, Boone, and Perkins all explained that this was an effort to get the nation to humble itself before God and create a nationwide spiritual awakening ... which is pretty much what Engle's own "The Call" has been trying to do for years.

But apparently Engle's efforts just weren't cutting it and so Perkins and company decided to start doing their own.

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Religious-Right Leaders Join to 'Reclaim America for God' ... from the British

Submitted by Ezra on March 22, 2007 - 4:27pm

Televangelist and “Patriot Pastor” leader Rod Parsley announced that he will be taking part in an effort to “take America back for God through the power of prayer” during the 400th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Virginia colony at Jamestown. The “Consecration Conference” at “Assembly 2007” will also feature several other familiar religious-right stars, including Pat Robertson, Bishop Wellington Boone, Harry Jackson, and John Hagee. If you can’t make it to Virginia Beach next month, don’t worry – you can still take part in this effort to declare America a Christian nation by purchasing a “One Nation Under God” commemorative cross. Plant a Cross promo “ Imagine thousands praying simultaneously from coast to coast publicly delaring that America belongs to Jesus Christ! Join the national movement on DEDICATION SUNDAY and renew the covenant with God and America in the prayer of rededication!”

A promotional video for the event makes this more explicit:

In April of 1607, the Jamestown colony landed in Virginia Beach and planted a cross, birthing a new nation dedicated to God. Now, 400 years later, you can be part of history by uniting with Christians at the Assembly 2007 to rededicate this country to Jesus Christ.

Of course, the birth of the new nation didn’t exactly occur until late in the next century – by which time the erstwhile colonists had developed ideas like the First Amendment and the No Religious Test clause.

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Welcome to Sodomite Island

Submitted by Kyle on October 16, 2006 - 12:48pm

Bishop Wellington Boone is fast becoming the Family Research Council’s favorite right-wing African American pastor, having participated in an FRC “Battle for Marriage” telecast, a “Take a Stand for Family” rally, a “Watchmen on the Wall” rally, “Justice Sunday III,” the “Values Voters Summit,” and now “Liberty Sunday, where the gay-bashing rhetoric he displayed during the recent “Values Voters Summit” continued.

Relating a conversation he claimed he had with his wife that morning, Boone insisted that homosexuality was unnatural and proposed something that can either be interpreted as evidence that his wife shares his bigoted views or else a clever new plot twist for the next season of “Survivor”

If sodomites - because they’re not gay, it’s a misnomer, they’re sodomites, there were sodomy laws in this country, all over, from 1600 and it was one time a capital offense … Tell you what, let two women go on an island, all women, sodomites, go on an island, stay by yourself. Put all the men on another island, this is my wife talking to me this morning, let them stay and tell you what, we’ll come back and see you in about a hundred years.

Boone then went on to reiterate his view that the push for equality is not a civil rights issue, calling attempts to equate the two a ”rape of the civil rights movement,” a remark that elicited rousing applause from the predominantly white audience. He then went off on a rather disjointed rant presumably related to the recent swearing in of Mark Dybul, who is openly gay, to be U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. During the ceremony, Dybul’s partner held the Bible and, according to press reports, Secretary of State Rice reportedly “singled out … Dybul's partner and referred to [his partner’s] mother as Dybul's mother-in-law.”

Boone was livid, fuming

And then I look at USA Today and I see, by our Secretary of State, somebody being sworn in with the President’s wife standing up there smiling. Now I got issues, because we talk about the President reading the Bible every day, we talk about him praying every day. Now I’m not playing with this kind of stuff here …. And then the comments that were made by the Secretary of State related to the partner of the person that was sworn in - their mother-in-law. What do you mean their mother-in-law? They’re not married, that’s not a family!

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who spoke earlier in the program, was careful to make to note that the debate over the issues of marriage should be carried out with “respect and tolerance,” a point that was apparently lost on Boone.

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Values Voter Summit: Anti-Gay Activists Warn of Repression of Religion

Submitted by Ezra on September 22, 2006 - 3:50pm

On the first day of the Values Voter Summit, speakers discussed embryonic stem-cell research (Sen. Brownback: "If you research and you kill a human at that stage [embryo], that human doesn't have a rest of a life"), abortion (Bishop Wellington Boone: African Americans are an "endangered species" because of "black genocide" through abortion), and the war on terror (James Dobson, ever conscious of upcoming elections: "I really see that as a family issue"). But by far the greatest emphasis was placed on the supposed dangers of the "homosexual agenda."

While some speakers, such as Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Sen. George Allen (R-Virginia), asserted that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples is a "foundational value" upon which America is built, and others proclaimed the unfitness of gays to be parents (Jennifer Giroux of Citizens for Community Values: "The ultimate child abuse is placing a child in a gay home"), many speakers pushed the notion of a "homosexual agenda" to the limit. Dobson asserted that the goal of advocates of same-sex marriage is to simply "bring down marriage." (Family Research Council President Tony Perkins claimed that the divorce of the Goodridges, named in the Massachusetts case that established marriage equality in the state, proves that point. "That tells you the commitment to the institution of marriage," he said.) Princeton Professor Robert George, architect of the "Princeton Principles" against gay marriage, warned that the "forces arrayed against the conjugal conception of marriage are very powerful ... And they will strike hard."

And, beginning with Romney, speakers warned that equality for gays will lead to "repression" of Christians. "The homosexual agenda and [freedom of] religion are on a collision course," said Alan Sears of the Alliance Defense Fund, as Perkins added that "They know they must silence the church." Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colorado), sponsor of the federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, said that "If we have gay marriage, our religious liberties are gone!" And Maggie Gallagher, noting the analogy between the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement, said that "They're going to have to start enforcing" some kind of "repression," just as there is "a broad array of ways in which the law penalizes, marginalizes, and punishes racial bigots."

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Values Voter Summit: The Gay-Bashing Bishop

Submitted by Peter on September 22, 2006 - 3:07pm

Bishop Wellington Boone, a frequent speaker at Promise Keepers events, reveled in what he thought would be shocking the polite crowd with his unapologetic attacks on gays and anyone who supports them. He touted a flyer he'd written called "The Rape of the Civil Rights Movement," which he said explained how "sodomites" were hijacking the civil rights to "promote perversion."

After recounting the history of violence and oppression against African Americans, from deaths on the middle passage through slavery and Jim Crow, he hollered, "You tell me a gay has a right to get in on some of that? Get out of here!"

Boone recalled that as a young person, he and his friends used the words "faggot" and "sissy" to refer to people who didn't stand on principle. "God has not called us to be sissies!" Boone seemed disappointed that his gay-bashing hasn't gotten more notice. "I want the gays mad at me. I am not on enough of their hit lists."

Boone also seemed to long for an unapologetically Christian nation, when anyone he derides as "unbiblical" wouldn't be serving in office. He read from what he described as an 18th century constitution for Delaware, which required al office holders to pledge fealty to a Christian creed. And he mocked the notion that someone running for Congress would not be "biblically based." "How can someone that doesn't feel the need for God lead me?"