America’s Leading Anti-Gay Figures Join Texas Governor’s Prayer Rally
The event, which has been billed as “The Response,” boasts endorsements from a veritable Who’s Who of the anti-gay movement. Among them is Cindy Jacobs, the Generals International pastor who claims that catastrophic natural events are the product of God’s anger over the acceptance of homosexuality, most famously when she attributed the mass death of blackbirds in Arkansas to divine wrath. “What happens when a nation makes a decision that is against God’s principles? … Nature itself will begin to talk to us,” Jacobs said.
Mike Bickle, Luis and Jill Cataldo, Randy and Kelsey Bohlender – all part of the International House of Prayer Missions (IHOP) based in Kansas City, Mo. – have signed on to the leadership committee, too. The church lists Lou Engle as a senior leader. Engle has predicted that “wrath will come upon the whole nation” if judges permit same-sex marriage and abortion. He also has said same-sex marriage is a blatant “legalizing of evil” and called marriage equality laws “anti-Christ legislation.”
Other figures endorsing the rally are Kelly Shackelford, a lawyer with the aggressively anti-gay Liberty Counsel, and David Barton, a self-taught historian who has used the platform provided by his WallBuilders group to expound on the moral dangers of allowing gay men and lesbians into the military. “The Founders instituted this ban with a clear understanding of the damaging effects of this behavior,” he wrote in a recent article.