Rand Paul: America Needs ‘Tent Revivals’ To Heal ‘Moral Crisis’ Created By Gay Marriage

Tea Party Republican Senator Rand Paul revealed his true beliefs in an interview with Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting network.

Politicians are often told to know their audience. 

That may have been good advice before the advent of YouTube, but it’s a big mistake in today’s political climate.

Christian conservative politicians tend to be very open and honest when they believe they’re in the company of like-minded religious folks, like, for instance, David Brody, one of the reporters at Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network, CBN.

Tea Party Republican U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky sat down Thursday morning at what Brody touts as “a private prayer breakfast” with “pastors and religious leaders.”

What Sen. Paul said may be somewhat shocking for many, especially libertarians who continue to insist – despite all evidence to the contrary – that Rand Paul is one of them.

He’s not.

He’s a Tea Party extremist, and he’s made that perfectly clear, time and time again.

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As he did at the CBN private prayer breakfast.

“The First Amendment says keep government out of religion,” Paul told folks at the prayer breakfast. “It doesn’t say keep religion out of government.”

Of course, many constitutional scholars would strongly disagree.

“Don’t always look to Washington to solve anything,” Paul continued, with what he called “free advice.”

“In fact, the moral crisis we have in our country, there is a role for us trying to figure out things like marriage, there’s also a moral crisis that allows people to think that there would be some sort of other marriage.”

“We’re the most disconnected city on the planet from the people,” Paul, being a good Republican, noted. “So don’t have a lot of faith in what’s going on up here.”

The Kentucky Senator and likely GOP presidential candidate, however, has a solution, as Right Wing Watch reported.

“We need a revival in the country,” Paul told the pastors and religious leaders, some of whom can be heard agreeing. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying reform or see what’s going to happen if we don’t reform.”

There have been three or four “Great Awakenings” in America, most or all characterized by large groups of evangelical Christians coming together in large tents and praying, arms waving in the air, being led by a charismatic Christian leader, like Billy Graham, Aimee Semple McPherson, and others whom some might claim to be charlatans.

Rand Paul knows his audience.

But he might not know about YouTube.

 

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Image: Congregation at Angelus Temple during 14-hour Holy Ghost service led by Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles, Calif., 1942. Photo via Wikimedia.
Hat tip: Salon