- on the masthead of the ARP website.
The American Renewal Project is awash with righteousness - and righteous arrogance: the website reads like an extreme Christofascist arm of WorldNetDaily.com with articles on the evils of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the U.S's most "Bible-minded Cities" and religious liberty, religious liberty, religious liberty. Lane's call for 1000 pastors appears on every page in a series of redundant articles. A close perusal of "news" articles puts FOX to shame in its right-wing spins, lambasting mainstream media and, of course all gays. In the past, Lane has been quoted as saying:
- Homosexuals praying at the 2013 inauguration will result in car bombs in various cities.
- "Christians must risk martyrdom and force Babel to the crux" in order to stop marriage equality.
- Homosexuality is debauchery.
The David Barton Connection
What makes David Lane a theocrat with strong Christofascist tendencies is his connection with pseudo-historian David Barton. While Barton has promoted Seven Mountains Dominionism in the guise of America being a Christian nation, he really hopes for America to be a Christian ONLY nation - just the man for David Lane. Barton, in fact, seems to crop up at every important religio-political event organized by Lane. Look for Barton to be at major appearances for Huckabee, Cruz and Jindal. Breakaways from the Republican Party, they echo Lane's distrust of the GOP:
David Lane explains choice: Be faithful to GOP, or faithful to Jesus
Control
Tonight, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) is scheduled to speak in front of a group of pastors at a dinner in Greenville, S.C. He will likely have things to say that would provide great insight into his mindset as a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate. Unfortunately, no one will hear them, thanks to a bizarre precondition set by the dinner's organizers: Reporters can attend, but only if they agree to print approved quotes.
Lane organized the dinner. To Lane, this kind of control is absolute. Some reporters, he said, "have agendas" and "don't even care what the truth is."
The truth is that David Lane will be in control of the Christian Right's foray into politics for years.
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