All last week, Glenn Beck promised that he would make a major announcement on Monday morning about some new campaign, saying “I believe my entire life has led to this point.”
This morning, Beck made that announcement but, in typical Beck fashion, he first spent nearly an hour and a half delivering a long-winded and self-aggrandizing monologue full of references to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King and passages of Scripture as he railed about how America has gone completely off the rails, fuming that this nation only cares about things like Caitlyn Jenner, abortion rights, and transableism at a time when Christians are being slaughtered by ISIS in the Middle East.
“We are no longer a country that I recognize,” he said. “We are no longer a people that I recognize. We are no longer a nation in which I care to call myself a member of. We’ve become a place where our citizenship is more of an indictment than an honor … We are a country that has not only lost its way, but history will show that we have lost our ever-loving minds.”
Eventually, Beck finally got around to announcing a new “Never Again Is Now” campaign to raise awareness of the crisis in the Middle East and a relief effort organized by his Mercury One charity to provide supplies and aid to those displaced and threatened by ISIS.
But there is more to the effort than simply providing relief to the victims of ISIS, as Beck is personally launching a speaking tour of churches in order to wake up Americans to the threat posed by things like gay marriage and to train them to carry out boycotts, civil disobedience, and nonviolent resistance … and just like Martin Luther King, Beck will be kicking this effort off in Birmingham, Alabama.
“If you think there is trouble now, what happens when the Supreme Court decides to say that homosexual marriage is the law of the land?” Beck asked. “Will this administration then force our churches to comply? Will you be forced to violate your own faith? We must together wake the most powerful force on earth: the people of God.”
“I’m going to begin,” he continued, “where Martin Luther King began. On 8/28, I’m going to be in Birmingham, Alabama in a church just down the street from where Martin Luther King began his historic stand against Bull Connor … We are going to begin to gather like-minded people and we are going to begin to train ourselves for non-violent resistance and civil disobedience. We’re going to begin to train ourselves for boycotts and sit-ins. We’re going to do all of the things that we thought were too radical or too hippy-like to do because we have to understand that we are now David and Goliath has all of the power. But we all know how that story ends.”
Frankly, we are surprised that Beck has the time for this new effort since we assumed that he must still be hard at work building the $2 billion “Independence Park” libertarian utopia that he promised us over two years ago.
