Watch: GOP Lawmaker Says God Personally Told Him To Be A ‘Watchman’ Warning Gay Marriage Is ‘Wicked’

One Republican state lawmaker says his personal relationship with God includes the Almighty telling him personally to warn against same-sex marriage. 

Republican State Rep. Mark Pody is battling same-sex marriage in Tennessee. In addition to filing a bill that would, he believes, simply nullify the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision that found same-sex couples do have a right to marry.

But Rep. Pody’s work is not only secular, it’s spiritual.

“I believe God talks to me in prayer,” he told supporters at a Nashville event designed to get his bill nullifying same-sex marriage some attention. God, Pody says, told him “this is your role,” to fight marriage equality.

“When this ruling came,” Pody told the group, speaking of the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, “I believe God told me this.”

Pody then read from the Book of Ezekiel, 3:18, in the Bible.

“I have made thee a watchman under the house of Israel,” Pody said, quoting the bible verse God, he claims, personally spoke to him. “Therefore, hear the word at my mouth and give them a warning from me, when I say unto the wicked, ‘Thou shall surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require from thine hand.'”

“Ladies and gentlemen,” Pody continued, “I believe I’m supposed to be speaking to the unsaved, to the people that are performing same-sex marriages, to the people involved in same-sex marriage, it is wicked, it is wrong and I am doing the best I can to warn them.”

“I believe that the bill that we’re are trying to put out right now is to say, ‘No, it will not happen here!'” he continued. “I believe that Nashville, Tennessee, is the time and the place that we put down the stake and we say, ‘No more!'”

Pody continued his talk, insisting it is up to Christians, pastors, and churches to “mobilize” against same-sex marriage. 

“We can not let this unconstitutional tyranny go on,” Pody insisted. “The Supreme Court is not the supreme being,” he added, to applause.

Pody then suggested that his anti-gay marriage bill is God’s “miracle.”

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