Pastors and Pews
Watch How Rand Paul And Ted Cruz Have Been Trying To Woo The Anti-Gay Religious Right

Here at The New Civil Rights Movement, we've worked hard to ensure our readers understand just how deep the anti-gay Christian right is embedded into Republican politics. There are many people who tirelessly work behind the scenes, and are very generously funded by anti-gay hate groups like the American Family Association and the Family Research Council, to ensure your civil rights to marriage and equality are denied. Tea Party Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are two of the greatest beneficiaries of this financial, electoral, and spiritual support.

David Lane, whom we have profiled so extensively he's blocked us on Twitter, is one of those who works behind the scenes. He's been bought and paid for by the certified anti-gay hate group American Family Association. Lane is the guy people like Cruz and Paul and Texas Governor Rick Perry call when they're vying for the GOP presidential nomination, to endear them with America’s Evangelicals. His m.o. is to arrange a trip to Israel -- which he's done for all three right-wing religious conservatives -- and then take them to Iowa to meet with the evangelical crowd. Lane's stamp of approval is a big deal.

So is his view of the LGBT community. Regular readers will remember well Lane's vicious anti-gay hate speech, in the form of a World Net Daily op-ed. “Where are the champions of Christ to save the nation from the pagan onslaught imposing homosexual marriage, homosexual scouts, 60 million babies done to death by abortion and red ink as far as the eye can see on America?,” Lane, head of the AFA’s American Renewal Project asked in an op-ed so inflammatory even WND was forced to pull it. “Who will wage war for the Soul of America and trust the living God to deliver the pagan gods into our hands and restore America to her Judeo-Christian heritage and re-establish a Christian culture?” Today, Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody published a story and this video about the recent Pastors and Pews summit in Iowa. It's stunning. "First there was the removal of the Bible from public schools; then there was the legalization of abortion. And just last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in support of same-sex marriage," Brody writes:

All those gathered - including possible presidential contenders Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas - agree that boldness is needed. "The book of Hosea tells us, 'My people parish for a lack of knowledge," Sen. Cruz told the Pastors and Pews audience. "Edwin Burke put the points a little differently when he said, 'The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.'" Sen. Paul agreed. "We must do something our world often tells us not to do: we must seek God, for our redemption and salvation, for our country's revival," Paul said. That's what these pastors pray for above politics: spiritual revival. "Father, we're again in need of another Great Awakening," one pastor prayed. The first Great Awakening began in the 1700s, led by pastors like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield. In the following century, a second revival saw large camp meetings spread like wildfire. Is there a third Great Awakening around the corner? Some of that doubt could be due to events over the last 50 years that have taken aim at Christian principles. In 1963 public school prayer ended, and a decade later, abortion was legalized. Now there seems to be a cultural acceptance of homosexual marriage.

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...there are gay conservatives like the Log Cabin Republicans, a group that just this week was barred from participating in the Western Conservative Summit. Would the party prefer these folks support and vote for Democrats?