Now that the Colorado legislative session has ended, so too has state Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt’s self-imposed suspension of his daily “Pray In Jesus Name” program, which he announced only a few months ago after his claim that a brutal attack on a pregnant woman in his state was due to the “curse of God upon America” for legal abortion sparked controversy, leaving even many of his fellow Republicans outraged.
Now that the controversy has blown over and the legislative session has ended, Klingenschmitt has returned to regularly praying about the news and discerning the spirits on his television program, as he did today when he warned that marijuana legalization leads to people being “devoured by the Devil.”
Recounting a story about a Colorado business owner who supposedly moved his company out of the state after voters legalized pot, Klingenschmitt declared that people who smoke pot are inviting a “demonic spirit of drunkenness” to take control of them.
“When you begin hallucinating, I’m told, and you begin seeing these images,” he said, “you’re having apparitions and you are seeing and interacting with and welcoming to rule your heart a demonic spirit of drunkenness. That’s not recreational. It’s evil.”
Citing 1 Peter 5:8, which says, “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour,” Klingenschmitt somberly asked, “Do you really want to be devoured by the Devil?”
