Uber Christian patriot and Koch tool, Pete Hegseth, introduced Pastor Ronnie Floyd who is president of the National Day of Prayer Task Force – a vehicle that, since its inception in the 50’s, has been a platform for the religious right. Pastor Floyd has also been the leader of the Southern Baptists and is the author of “The Gay Agenda.” He believes that homosexuality is “Satan’s con job.”
Floyd preached to Fox & Friends viewers, "We are all about mobilizing unified public prayer for America.” Then he gushed over Trump’s “bold and courageous stand” in proclaiming a prayer day in which everybody should take part.
Fox friend Abby Huntsman, who was raised as a Mormon (not a group loved by evangelicals), said that she has spoken to Texans who say, "The way that our community is stronger is through faith and through our families.” She added, "I can't think of anything more important than the country coming together through a national day of prayer."
Floyd claimed that prayer shows we need God and that those who don’t pray are depending on themselves.
[links in original] Beauty in the eye/ear of the beholder:
Hegseth asked Floyd to offer a prayer which he began “Father, I ask in the name of Jesus” and continued in the hope that people would find “the Lord, Jesus Christ.”
At the end of the prayer, Hegseth said “Amen.”
Huntsman said, “That was beautiful.”
Would we, as a world, be a better place if Hegseth rejoined the military in order to slaughter heathen in Afghanistan, or perhaps another stint in authority, at Gitmo? Anywhere but "Amening" schlock, which casts him in the light of a money-grubbing hypocrite.
To some at least. Opinions can differ. As in did he fronting for the Kochs serve veterans, or mislead them with a bogus agenda? Your opinion is worth more, to you, than mine or Sir Hegseth's.
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