The Company That David Barton Keeps

Later this month, a Religious Right gathering is scheduled to take place in Texas called “San Antonio in Black, White, and Brown” which, as the name suggests, is aimed at unifying the White, Black, and Hispanic communities in order to establish a “Biblical worldview” in the city:

David Barton and Harry Jackson will be among the speakers at this event, sharing the stage with several other figures who played high-profile roles in Gov. Rick Perry’s Dominionist-dominated “The Response” prayer rally back in 2011, including Doug Stringer and, more interestingly, Alice Patterson of Justice At The Gates.

Patterson not only has deep ties to Perry (so much so that she was welcomed on stage by him during his prayer rally) but has also been working with Barton for years to find ways to convince Black voters to support the Republican Party … because the Democratic Party is controlled by demons, as we noted when we wrote about her book a few years back:

In fact, Patterson wrote a whole book about it which I have just finished reading called “Bridging the Racial and Political Divide: How Godly Politics Can Transform a Nation” in which mentions how she went to hear Chuck Pierce speak in Louisiana where he preached on “Saul Structures” at which points she realized that the Democratic Party is “an invisible network of evil comprising an unholy structure” that is, quite literally, controlled by demonic forces:

As Chuck described Saul Structures, my thoughts raced to politics. “Oh my God, Chuck is describing the Democratic Party!” This was the first time I’d ever considered that an evil structure could be connected to and empowered by a political party … One strong fallen angel cannot wreak havoc on an entire nation by himself. He needs a network of wicked forces to restrain the Church and to deceive the masses. Unlike the Holy Spirit, who is everywhere at once and can speak to millions of people simultaneously, the devil can only be in one place at a time. By himself Satan would be totally ineffective, but in cooperation with other powers of darkness he erects structures to deceive and manipulate entire nations … At the time I was listening to Chuck Pierce in Louisiana, I hadn’t given any thought at all to strongholds in political parties. If I had ever thought about it, of course, it would have made sense, but it was new information. As Chuck’s words began to sink in, I asked the “Lord, Father, what is the demonic structure behind the Democratic Party?”

Patterson goes on to explain that “the demonic structure behind the Democratic Party” is in fact “the Jezebel structure” which is rooted in long-ago Democratic support for slavery and which remains today because of the party’s support for reproductive and gay rights.