Jeb Bush Calls For New ‘Spiritual Awakening’ To Fix ‘Crumbling Of Our Moral Foundation’ (Video)

Watch as Jeb Bush says America needs a “spiritual awakening” like those that brought prohibition and tent preachers.

After surviving a terrible week during which he changed – four times – his answer to whether or not he would have invaded Iraq like his brother did, Jeb Bush what all embattled Republican likely presidential candidates do: he turned to religion, literally and figuratively.

Bush, in an interview published Sunday, sat down with Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network and in a three part interview, discussed same-sex marriage, the nation’s “crumbling” moral foundation, and the rights of wedding cake bakers to refuse service to same-sex couples.

LOOK: Jeb Bush Says Only Traditional Marriage Can Give ‘Children Born In Poverty’ A Chance

In the video above, Bush, a Roman Catholic, portrays himself as more of an evangelical searching for some of that old time religion.

The 62-year old former Florida governor tells CBN’s David Brody he believes America needs yet another new spiritual awakening, like the Second Great Awakening that brought hellfire-and-damnation preaching, along with prohibition.

“When I talk to pastors all across the country, at least in evangelical world they talk about how this country needs a spiritual awakening,” Brody said. “Do you believe something like that?”

Bush was only too quick to walk through that door.

WATCH: Jeb Bush: If Elected, I Promise My Christian Faith Will Influence How I Govern (Video)

“I do. I do,” he reassured Brody, who speaks for millions of Christian evangelicals as CBN’s top religion reporter. “In fact, I’ve read about it because it’s of concern. I don’t think we can impose a spiritual awakening from Washington, D.C. by passing a law,” Bush offered.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen but we have the crumbling of our moral foundation in our country that is quite disturbing,” the as-yet-undeclared GOP presidential candidate lamented. “If you read our history there have been times where there have been awakenings. The Great Awakening in the 19th century where this massive move westward created real dislocation in family life, communities were kind of torn us under, there was a lot of drunkenness and infidelity.”

Bush was speaking directly to evangelical Christians, who are enamored with that “Great Awakening” and the soaring increase in Americans who embraced religion, as opposed to the dramatic drop Christianity in America has seen since 2007.

“Whatever happened there there was a spark by Presbyterian ministers in Western New York that created a wildfire that truly created an awakening that brought us the abolition movement, the suffrage movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the prohibition of alcohol, all of that started in the 1820’s and 30’s and it was clearly not a government deal. It was a spiritual awakening. I don’t know what the catalyst of that is but I think for our country and for the future of our children and grandchildren it would be worth having,” Bush suggested.

In March, in a similar comment advocating for a spiritual awakening, Rand Paul told David Brody that America needs “tent revivals” to heal the “moral crisis” created by same-sex marriage.

 

Related:

Watch: At Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University Jeb Bush Takes Subtle Aim At Same-Sex Marriage

Jeb Bush Fear-Mongers Off Scalia’s False Claim Pastors Will Have To Officiate Same-Sex Weddings

Jeb Bush Announces He’s A Fan Of White Nationalist Author’s Books

 

Video and image screenshot via CBN/The Brody File