KLAMATH FALLS, OR— GOP, the Party of Hypocrites
A Texas pastor calls Democrats ‘godless’: ‘God will not bless America’ white Christian Republican pastors stung by-election results
Mega church Pastor Dr. Ed Young, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention said that the Democratic Party is “some kind of religion that is basically godless” during a speech he delivered at Congressman John Culberson’s election watch party Tuesday night.
Culberson was a GOP incumbent who lost his House seat in Texas during this year’s Blue Wave. Young’s remarks were made after Rep. Culberson gave his concession speech. And Young is not the only white Republican Texas Christian pastor expressing those kinds of sentiments.
Republican anti-LGBT rights activist Dave Welch, who is the leader of the Houston-based Texas Pastor Council, wrote in a Friday column that Young is right — secular Democrats are a “godless party” that embraces legal abortion and “moral anarchy.”
Before the election another Texas pastor, Bob Long of prophecy-driven Rally Call Ministries, wrote that he had a vision of a demonic attack on the election by “supernatural evil.” Long was chosen by Texas Republican lawmakers to lead a prayer service in the Texas Capitol.
At Culberson’s post-election gathering, according to video from Houston television station KHOU, Young claimed a Pittsburgh-area Democratic Party chairman had been forced out over a Facebook repost about how Americans should “kneel at the cross.”
The post actually criticized NFL players’ anthem protests, one of several that seemed more like racial insults.
But Young took it out of context, telling the Republican gathering the Democratic Party is “no longer a party. It’s some kind of religion that is basically godless, and as long as America — and this is represented by every Democrat I know — does not believe in the sacredness of the life in the mother’s womb, God will not bless America or make us a great nation.”
Rev. Leslie Smith II, pastor for Change Ministries based in Houston, said he was unsure if Young understood what he was saying at the time.
"Because I’m sure at his church there are some Democrats," Smith said. "There are some Republicans. There are some Libertarians. There are some non-affiliates.”
Joel Goza, a former pastor and author, said he found Young's comments to be embarrassing because he knows a lof of committed Christians who vote Democratic.
“We have very problematic political realities facing our nation," Goza said. "So when I hear people like Dr. Ed Young, I feel like I’m listening to someone who has one-dimensional thinking in a three-dimensional world.”
“That’s just one individual’s view and perspective,” Rev. Smith said. “If we believe he was off-base in his comments, let’s love him and forgive him and accept him but not isolate him.”
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