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Zorro

(16,296 posts) Sun Mar 13, 2022, 05:22 PM Mar 2022

Eric Trump, Flynn and other right-wing figures headline conference at San Marcos church

The national ReAwaken tour combines politics, religion and showmanship, prompting protest by other local faith leaders

SAN MARCOS — Eric Trump, Roger Stone, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and other right-wing figures spoke at a conservative conference held at a San Marcos church this weekend, while other local faith leaders protested the event, calling it an anti-democratic movement that distorts Christianity.

The Reawaken America conference, organized by Flynn and Thrivetime Show podcast host Clay Clark, was held at Awaken Church in San Marcos as part of a national tour. Other Awaken church locations made headlines during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when the county issued cease-and-desist notices ordering them to stop holding unmasked indoor services.

That defiance fit with the message of the two-day event, where speakers railed against mask mandates and COVID-19 vaccines in a program featuring elements of a trade show, political rally and fire-and-brimstone evangelical tent revival.

While not an actual campaign rally for his father, who has not announced a re-election bid, Trump boasted about the former president’s accomplishments and spoke about upcoming elections.

“We have to fight for religion, we have to fight for God, we have to fight for the nuclear family, which has been destroyed,” said Eric Trump, who spoke for about 40 minutes Friday afternoon to a packed crowd in the megachurch, while others watched the livestream from afar.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2022-03-12/reawaken-tour-san-marcos-church

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Eric Trump, Flynn and other right-wing figures headline conference at San Marcos church (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2022 OP

We have to fight for God? Chainfire Mar 2022 #1

Good Old Divinity gets drafted as Cozmic War-Cheerleader when Achilleaze Apr 2022 #6

Oh, FFS Mz Pip Mar 2022 #2

Funny how no one else wants to hear from poor Eric underpants Mar 2022 #3

"...for the nuclear family, which has been destroyed," keithbvadu2 Mar 2022 #4

What are those evil people doing in a church? BlueJac Mar 2022 #5

what kind of church host this nonsense Demovictory9 Apr 2022 #7

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)

1. We have to fight for God?

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Mar 13, 2022, 05:31 PM

Mar 2022

When did God need a proxy?

I hope there will come a day of reckoning where all of these Fascist bastards get what they deserve.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

6. Good Old Divinity gets drafted as Cozmic War-Cheerleader when

Reply to Chainfire (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 2, 2022, 06:53 AM

Apr 2022

the people at the top of the people pyramid see some grand manipulative advantage for their venal intentions.

Otherwise, Divinity is peacefully preoccupied inspiring spring flowers, CODA, and other such sweet stuff.

Mz Pip

(27,894 posts)

2. Oh, FFS

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Sun Mar 13, 2022, 05:36 PM

Mar 2022

No one is destroying the nuclear family and the Trumps are hardly role models for it, as it is.

And religious people have to stop feeling like they’re being persecuted just because they don’t get their own way in everything. Churches aren’t being boarded up, they aren’t being harrassed or forbidden to attend.

All this whining is really tiresome.