October 4, 2008

AU Listens in on Jim Garlow/Concerned Women for America’s Game Plan to Subvert Legal Marriage in California

Sandhya Bathija at Americans United reports on the October 2nd conference call led by “Pastor Jim Garlow of Skyline Wesleyan Church in La Mesa who is the leader and initiator of Proposition 8″:

My Call From God’s Army:
CWA ‘Draftees’ Aim To Pass California’s Proposition 8

… “None of us really want to be doing this” Garlow said. “I could have been sitting on the beach. But I didn’t volunteer, God drafted me. I don’t have a choice. And God drafted you too, or you wouldn’t be in the CWA.”

Pastor Garlow said he would refer to the CWA women campaigning for Proposition 8 not as mere volunteers but as “draftees.”

This militaristic-type rhetoric continued throughout the call. Garlow continued with a story emphasizing why CWA women needed to fight for Proposition 8.

“When I find myself up past the midnight hour,” he said, “asking ‘why am I doing this?’ I think of the conversation that took place in Cairo, Egypt, between an Egyptian Christian pastor who has been severely persecuted by Islam and a man named Lou Engle” (Engle is the theocracy-minded founder of The Call, a fundamentalist youth movement, who is leading a 40-day fast to pass Proposition 8.)

“When Lou was in Cairo, Egypt,” Garlow continued, “this pastor said to him, as a pastor that suffers at the hands of radical Islam, he said, ‘The eyes of the world are on California. We’re watching California and the vote on marriage. Because if you fail there to stop it, if you fail to stop it, what will be unleashed across the world will be a spirit worse than radical Islam.’”

Wow. So same-sex marriage is worse than terrorism? What kind of radical worldview is that? …

“God’s hand is on this project, CWA founder Beverly LaHaye said on this conference call. …

More bone-chilling insanity at the link.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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