Evangelical ‘Kingmaker’ Working To Vote 1000 Christian Pastors Into Political Office

The American Family Association’s David Lane is teaming up with Republican governor Bobby Jindal to remake the face of American politics into the face of Jesus.

David Lane is one of those political strategists almost no one has heard about. A Christian evangelical extremist “kingmaker,” he runs his American Renewal Project under the auspices of a certified anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association. Lane is intimately connected with many of the top 2016 likely GOP presidential candidates, including Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Rick Santorum, and Bobby Jindal.

True to his AFA roots, last year Lane wrote an op-ed demanding his followers “wage war to restore a Christian America” against “the pagan onslaught imposing homosexual marriage.”

And it’s Jindal whom Lane has picked to lead a January 2015 meeting of – he hopes – 1000 pastors the two will invite to the Republican governor’s home state of Louisiana. Their goal? Reshape the face of American politics, from a secular one to a Christian evangelical one.

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Lane, who last year was Rand Paul’s outreach director and has led several missions to Israel with prominent Republicans, including Sen. Paul, sees winning in politics as a numbers game. He reached out to his long email list to lay the groundwork, telling the Washington Times, “the reason I emailed pastors asking them to pray for 30 days is that if they do half as good as my pastor did, if 1,000 pastors in 2016 felt like the Lord was calling them to run for office, and they each had 300 volunteers, then that’s 300,000 people on the grass-roots level.”

“There are 65 to 80 million evangelical Christians in America, we are going to bring them into the marketplace and into the public square,” Lane added. “Christians are going to participate in the public square, that’s what we’re called to do.”

For Lane the separation of church and state is a one-way street.

“There’s no truth to that, the Constitution says the state is to keep out of the church, it doesn’t say the church is to keep out of the state,” Mr. Lane said, adding that secularism is another religion that’s being imposed on Americans.

“It’s just a matter of somebody’s values are going to reign supreme,” Mr. Lane said. “It’s just a little minority imposing their values. It’s part of a spiritual battle. If we are going to survive as a nation, we have to have a spiritual resurrection.”

“We have a Christian responsibility to engage people and get out the vote,” Lane says. “Government is not going to save America. Wall Street is not going to save America. The Republican party is not going to save America. If America is going to be saved it will be done by Christian men and women restoring a Judeo-Christian culture to the country.”

 

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