Faith 2 Action’s Janet Porter was the keynote speaker at the American Decency Association’s summer conference last month, where she repeated her claim that her prayers delivered the state of Florida to George W. Bush in the 2000 election.
“In the year 2000, I lived in a county named Broward,” Porter said. “Remember election night? Every station had declared the election for Al Gore. Every one, ever Fox. And I did something that was odd — and I know the Right Wing Watchers are telling I’m the one that prayed it in — well, I think there were millions who prayed with me but I do think that God answers prayer and I do think He’s honored when you pray ridiculous, sun-stopping prayers. And I said, ‘God, I’m asking you to do what has never been done before, I’m asking you to take the state of Florida, where I lived at the time, from Al Gore and give it to George Bush so that unborn children will live and not die.’ That was my prayer.”
Porter also revealed that a friend of hers was in charge of delivering military ballots to the Florida Supreme Court and that her friend spent the night praying over those ballots and anointed them with oil before delivering them to the court, which then ruled in Bush’s favor, as did the U.S. Supreme Court “which changed the outcome of the election.”
