Rand Paul’s Evangelical Outreach Director Compares Pre-World War II Germany To America Today

Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul, clearly gearing up for a 2016 presidential run, recently hired David Lane of the anti-gay hate group, American Family Association, to be his director of evangelical outreach. Lane (image, right), who has ties also to Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz, recently wrote an op-ed demanding his followers “wage war” against the “pagan onslaught imposing homosexual marriage” in order “to restore a Christian America.”

The American Family Association is home to Bryan Fischer, one of the nation’s top professional anti-gay hate mongers. Fischer recently claimed that  claimed that “homosexuality in the end is going to be responsible for the collapse of the Western economy.”

And in an outreach email to his followers that is filled with fear-mongering, false David Barton-ish comparisons to the Bible and the U.S. Constitution, and a gross misunderstanding of our founding documents, Lane claims “[c]omparing pre-WWII Germany to present day America is no stretch,” and rails against the “U.S. Supreme Court’s mad rush to impose homosexual marriage on America — by judicial fiat,” which, he claims, “may finally awaken the pastors of America.”

It’s certainly clear that the pastors Lane would like to “awaken” have been so for quite some time:

North Carolina Church Accused Of Imprisoning Man Because He Is Gay

NOM’s ‘Religious Liaison’ Pastor Equates Sex With Dogs To Gay Marriage

Pastor ‘Kind Of Likes’ The Idea Of Killing All The ‘Wicked’ Gays (Audio)

Worley: ’40 Years Ago Gays Would’ve Hung, Bless God, From A White Oak Tree’

Genocide? Pastor Says Kill All ‘Queers And Homosexuals’ By Airlifting Into Electric Pen

Pastor: Married Gays Dangerous To Kids, One Step Away From ‘Person And Beast’ Marriage

Anti-Gay Pastor: Parents Must ‘Squash Like A Cockroach’ The Gay Out Of Kids

Gays “Have To Wear A Diaper” Says Anti-Gay Pastor From Anti-SPLC Protest

Bisexuals Are The ‘Turd In The Punchbowl’ Says Massachusetts Pastor

Need we say more?

Meanwhile, Lane, quoting Shakespeare in his email, writes, “As American culture continues to decompose, this could be the Church’s finest hour.”

And then Lane offers this:

What’s becoming increasingly clear, live according to traditional, Biblical values and Activists Judges will assault you by imposing their secular, moral judgments on marriage, the mother’s womb, prayer and Bible reading, the rights of parents over minors, divorce, viewing of Ten Commandments, distinction between male and female, banning the Pledge of Allegiance, etc…

“Separation between church and state” – there is no such clause in the Constitution, made up from whole cloth to keep the conservative, Biblical churches from registering and voting. [Bolding his]

He adds:

America was founded by Christians  — The Mayflower Compact, “Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith“; Jamestown arrivees – “Wee, greately commending and graciously accepting of theire desires to the furtherance of soe noble a worke which may, by the providence of Almightie God, hereafter tende to the glorie of His Divine Maiestie in propogating of Christian religion…“ — erected a cross, took communion, and worshiped Jesus.

Lane, by the way, likes to fly way under the radar, but organized Rand Paul’s trip to Israel early this year, which was seen as his official entry into the 2016 scrum. And Lane’s daughter, Jillian Lane, is a staffer for Senator Rand Paul, to boot.