re: #43 Stanley Sea

[Link: www.washingtonmonthly.com…]

Here’s one article. No video that I saw, quick search.

Thanks. Here’s another write-up — the first that Google spit out for me:

Glenn Beck Goes Messianic at America’s Divine Destiny Event Before 2,500 Screaming Fans

About 2,500 screaming, adoring Glenn Beck fans packed the concert hall of Washington’s Kennedy Center on Friday night to shower affection on their hero. Beck used the event, dubbed “America’s Divine Destiny,” to portray himself as an instrument of God prepared to lead America out of its spiritual darkness.

Beck, who seems to view himself in increasingly messianic terms, says he is helping to launch another religious “Great Awakening” that will shape American history and promised attendees that on Saturday they would be “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
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Rep. Randy Forbes, head of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, gave the opening prayer. Forbes, who represents Virginia’s 4th congressional district, has repeatedly introduced resolutions filled with assertions about the religious nature of America’s founding. Forbes reeled off a list of supposed attacks on faith in America that he and his colleagues had withstood.
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Barton did what he does, which is to show off his collection of old speeches and sermons that in his telling prove America was based on Christian principles and was never meant to be a secular nation.
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Action film star Chuck Norris read long passages from writings by George Washington, Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams, intended to show their piety and their belief that America’s future depended on Americans acknowledging the country’s dependence on God. Norris was an energetic supporter of Mike Huckabee’s presidential bid and later endorsed “Ten Commandments” Judge Roy Moore’s gubernatorial bid in Alabama. “What does it take to get Gina and I off our ranch in Texas?” Norris asked. “An act of Congress? No way. What it takes is God or Glenn Beck.”
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John Hagee is the pastor whose endorsement proved too controversial for John McCain’s presidential campaign when his remarks about Catholics, among other things, came under fire. Hagee also promised great things from Saturday’s event. “We’re not here to curse the darkness, we’re here to turn on the light and that happens tomorrow.” His prayer decried pluralism, moral compromise and political correctness, and urged God to lead the nation back to its righteous roots by putting godly leaders into office and exposing the ungodly ones: “Let every secret sin be shouted from the housetops.”