In recent months, Lou Engle, founder of The Call, has been becoming increasingly political.
When Engle was organizing a Call event on the National Mall last year, he repeatedly insisted that the event was not about politics but simply a call to “fasting and prayer for the benefit of the nation.” Of course, the fact that it was held just months before the election and featured political operatives and figures like Tony Perkins, Harry Jackson, and Mike Huckabee rather undercut that assertion.
When he organized another Call event in California explicitly to fight for the passage of Proposition 8 where he was joined by James Dobson, it became clear that it was only a matter of time before Engle officially announced that he was starting a full-fledged political organization that would seek to turn the tens of thousands who attend his Call events into a bona fide political force.
And that is just what he did at the recent Rediscovering God in America conference that we mentioned earlier. In this clip, Engle declares that he is no longer willing to be “silenced” by the limits of The Call’s 501c3 status and so he started a 501c4 group known as The Call to Action and that this conference was its first official act.
The goal of Engle’s Call to Action is to “redefine voting” for the next generation as a “prophetic act” and train them that they don’t vote Democrat or Republican but vote “moral absolute truths,” creating a mass army of young, motivated Christian voters who will pledge never to vote for a candidate who is not anti-choice, thereby creating a “spiritual revolution [and] training a generation to seize technology and turn the tide”:
