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Posted on 05/27/2026 6:17:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The numbers don’t lie. Democrats are staring down the barrel of another midterm cycle where their secular base simply isn’t big enough to win in the places that matter. So they’ve decided to stop pretending and start poaching. Not with policy changes or soul-searching. With collars. With Bibles. With men and women who once stood in pulpits now running for Congress and statewide office as proud Democrats.
Progressive faith networks like Vote Common Good are tracking roughly 30 white Christian clergy (mostly from mainline Protestant denominations) seeking Democrat nominations this cycle. That’s no coincidence. It’s a deliberate surge aimed straight at the heart of Republican strength: the religious voter. White evangelicals, practicing Protestants, and traditional Catholics have anchored the GOP for generations. Democrats know it. They’ve studied the polls. And instead of reforming their agenda on life, family, and religious liberty, they’re trying to rent the pews.
Look at the map. In Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, a Trump stronghold, Presbyterian pastor Lindsay James is on the ballot. Former United Methodist minister Clint Twedt-Ball is right there with her. Over in the 3rd District, ordained Lutheran minister and state Senator Sarah Trone Garriott is pushing the same line. Three pastors in one battleground state, all Democrats, all framing bigger government, open borders, and progressive priorities as pure Gospel.
Up in Alaska’s at-large House seat, Presbyterian pastor Matt Schultz campaigns on feeding the hungry and standing up to “bullies” ‒– code, of course, for anyone who dares defend biological sex or parental rights in schools. In Kansas, the senior pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country, Adam Hamilton, with his 24,000-member congregation, is running for Senate as an “independent-minded Democrat.” These aren’t outliers. They’re the vanguard of a strategy that treats faith communities like enemy territory to be infiltrated
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Maybe someday the only people who will want to serve in Congress will be people who have a full time gig somewhere else.
Because President and Commander in Chief was successful in obliterating, draining, and turning the wretched hive of scum and villainy Congress into a part time gig with little money or reward, and no career potential due to term limits.
But he has to win the war against his govt first.
Then pastors running might not seem so swampy.
It’s the left. The only standards they have are double. They only want our churches separated from government. Their unholy altars are made from the finest politicians money can buy.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Texas Senate race will be the prototype for this strategy. We’ll see if the backward hicks vote for Talarico.
I recall someone saying, “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me.” They will be found out.
Ha...I just got a text from actblue for Talerico asking for 1 dollar to help defeat Paxton...
We are warned of false pastors in the end times, I hope those of you who experience one will run, not walk from that church.
“Democrat Pastor” is an oxymoron.
I just had this discussion on a Bible study this morning. I don’t think Leftism and Christianity can inhabit the same person.
Why is ActBlue texting YOU?
Hopefully, you quickly BLOCKED that number!
I can smell an "affirming church" a mile away. This one has it all over themselves. I'm steering clear of it like the plague.
Meanwhile, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is taking over Southern Baptist churches and other denominations with youth and adult choral music featuring their karaoke. CBF-controlled church music from Mercer University (a CBF institution) allows them to penetrate the liberalism.
Wow. No kidding!
There are a lot of people who would damn me to Hell for what I said in my last post.
But in my heart (and intellectually) I believe and stand by it.
I also note how the whole Jonestown thing has gone down the memory hole.
Nah...I like to see what they are up to. No idea how I got on their list. I get only a few a year...mostly for my state offices.
You have to choose. Christian or Democrat? You can’t be both.
“Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
Lots of people have to go inside church buildings regularly in order to have their purity exalted and confirmed by others. They have learned to be careful about opening that book they carry.
These articles are a nice juxtaposition. I have always thought the sign saying "My Body, My Decision" with a picture of Harriet would be useful at a rally. 'Hijacked To Promote The Killing Of Children’: Liberal Pastors Are ‘Blessing’ A Blue State Abortion Clinic
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2024/12/27/liberal-pastors-bless-abortion-clinic/
At an abortion clinic in Maryland, a Presbyterian pastor, Baptist minister and Jewish cantor burned incense as part of a “ritual blessing” in order “to show that religion could be a source of support for abortion rights,” according to the New York Times. The women wanted to counter religious opposition to the procedure.
Liberal pastors have taken to “blessing” abortion clinics to signal support for women who choose to abort their babies according to a Friday report from The New York Times. “You all are blessings to those who come to you for care during some of their most vulnerable and sometimes painful moments,” Rev. Katey Zeh, an ordained Baptist minister, told the abortion clinic staff.
Zeh leads the “blessings” at abortion clinics through an organization she runs called the Religious Community for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), the NYT wrote. The organization aims “to end religious stigma around abortion.”
Baby Harriet’s body was found in medical waste. Police deny there was any wrongdoing.
https://www.liveaction.org/news/baby-harriet-body-medical-waste/
Baby Harriet’s body was discovered on March 25, 2022, in a medical waste box about to be placed on a truck bound for Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services. Along with her were 114 other bodies of children killed at the Washington Surgi-Center abortion facility in D.C., which is notorious for committing later abortions. Harriet is believed to have been about 28 to 30 weeks gestational age and — though it is completely legal to kill viable children at this age in Washington, D.C. — experts agree that Harriet may have been killed by a federally banned abortion procedure.
I think your statement is a little off-target, though I do understand what you meant...I don't think it is "the backward Hicks" that we should be concerned with.
It is educated, shallow people we have to worry about. Not only will AWFULs wholly vote for that person, but people who have education, but are so shallow and uninformed that in the month lead-up to the election they won't know who they should vote for.
These people are a danger because they should have enough education to know better and see through this "Luciferian Beauty Play" as this thread on Free Republic discusses the American Thinker article today:
LINK TO FR THREAD: "The Democrats’ Luciferian Beauty Play"
And those people are indeed a danger.
But I do believe many "backward hicks" might have more common-sense and awareness they are being played, where these "intelligent, well educated, undecided voters" clearly do not.
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