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David Barton: If someone calls you a homophobe, just call them “a heterophobe.” (And other news from the world of evangelical Trumpism)

John Fea   |  January 27, 2021

Yesterday the Senate voted 55-45 to move forward with Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. The vote put an end to Kentucky senator Rand Paul’s constitutional objection to the trial. Most GOP senators supported Rand’s motion to kill the trial, but Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Pat Toomey broke with the rest of their party and voted to go forward with it. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, sided with Paul.

The fact that only 55 senators voted to go forward with the trial (contra Paul’s motion) suggests that it will be difficult to get the 67 senators needed to convict Trump. The trial will begin on Feburary 9, 2021.

Let’s check-in some well-known evangelical Trump supporters. They no longer have access to the court, but they are still in Trump’s corner.

Christian Broadcasting Network journalist David Brody, who calls out other journalists for sharing their opinions on social media, apparently has opinions of his own:

Sham https://t.co/ZMqBB6KwcW

— David Brody (@DavidBrodyCBN) January 26, 2021

The Independent Network Charismatic (INC) community is still trying to figure out how so many of their prophets got the 2020 election wrong. Mario Murillo believes that the “true prophets” coupled “the promise of Trump’s victory with a call for the church to repent. “False prophets,” he says, “spoke as if we were entitled to an automatic victory.” Here is more from Murillo:

…God ordered the American Church to rally around Trump. The true remnant struck the ground, but many others did not. Some misguided voices diluted the church’s ability to run with the prophetic promise.

‘Woke’ voices, such as Beth Moore and Jim Wallis, notably made it their mission to insult and demean both Trump and his voters. At no time did they offer any sort of meaningful alternative to God’s provision for America.

Nevertheless, we struck the enemy three times, and we actually did win the election. Trump won by a landslide. But we did not get the full victory that would have come if the fraud had been exposed and overturned. That victory was in God’s original plan, but the American Church’s response was simply too little, too late.

We could have taken more authority over demonic power. We needed the lukewarm to repent. That is why we saw the Supreme Court collapse, and why Mike Pence and other Republican leaders chose to save their own political careers, rather than save the nation.

On January 6th, a demonic blanket of evil fell over Washington as Antifa, and BLM protestors posing as Trump supporters, along with a few misguided rightwing extremists, allowed the march to walk into a trap, release great tragedy, and handed the enemy an excuse to try and destroy Trump permanently.

That plus the lethal combination of ‘woke’ Christians, false prophets, and assorted cowards, combined to weaken the enforcement of the true prophecy that Trump would remain in the White House. Instead, we have a puppet and a Jezebel spirit lurking in the people’s house.

Read the entire blog post here. INC prophet Lance Wallnau shared Murillo’s piece and offered similar thoughts of his own.

Meanwhile, Twitter permanently banned Mike “My Pillow Guy” Lindell from its platform. Here is Lindell on Fox News defending himself:

Sooooo here's Mike Lindell on Tucker Carlson's show saying Dominion "hired hit groups and bots and trolls and went after all my vendors and box stores to cancel me out." pic.twitter.com/8DOyVHxj4K

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 27, 2021

David Barton offers some advice for how his followers should fight the culture war. For the record, I don’t know of anybody in the LGBTQ community who opposes heterosexuals for being heterosexual.

Religious-right activist David Barton says conservative Christians must remain engaged in the political debate and offers a helpful tip: If someone calls them a homophobe, they should respond by calling that person a heterophobe. pic.twitter.com/6ODde7J9Wf

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 26, 2021

Richard Land is singing the praises of the 1776 Commission Report and actually equates it to scripture. (Deuteronomy 6):

2/2. on your gates (paraphrasing Deut. 6:1-9). And, you might, along the way, give some thought to thanking the Almighty that in His providence you are privileged to be a citizen of the noblest county yet devised by the mind of man on this planet. https://t.co/5c9oFw8wID

— Richard Land (@rdland) January 25, 2021

Here is more from Land on the deeply problematic 1776 Commission Report:

2/3. As the late, great Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously observed “you are entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own facts”—regardless of what post-modernism may think.

— Richard Land (@rdland) January 25, 2021

3/3. As our second president, the brilliant, but dour John Adams declared, “Facts are stubborn things.” And the 1776 Commission deals in facts – lots and lots of them. See for yourself at: https://t.co/5c9oFw8wID.

— Richard Land (@rdland) January 25, 2021

Land should stick to running his conservative seminary. He has absolutely no clue about how to do history.

Ralph Reed weighs-in on the impeachment trial. One might think he would welcome the trial since it will distract Congress from moving on Biden’s agenda. Nope:

The Senate vote today on the motion by @RandPaul to dismiss the impeachment of former President Trump shows the House’s charges are dead on arrival. It is a waste of time, a sham trial & is of dubious constitutionality.

— Ralph Reed (@ralphreed) January 27, 2021

We could have used more of this nuance from 2015-January 19, 2021:

Everything…

… literally, everything …

is always more complicated than it seems.

Seek to always grasp all the intertwined, sometimes contradictory & sometimes complimentary, facets of what you are trying to understand.

— Rev. Johnnie Moore ن (@JohnnieM) January 26, 2021

Well, so much for nuance:

I sure wish I lived in Arkansas so that I could vote for @SarahHuckabee Sanders for Governor.

Brilliant. Tough. Kind. Christian.

"A New Generation of Leadership." https://t.co/UWrHPi6ggC

— Rev. Johnnie Moore ن (@JohnnieM) January 25, 2021

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Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: 1776 Commission, Christian Broadcasting Network, culture wars, David Barton, David Brody, Donald Trump, evangelical Trumpism, impeachment, Independent Network Charismatic (INC), Johnnie Moore, Lance Wallnau

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