Christians should disavow Democrats, says ex-Senate candidate Jackson
Chesapeake faith leader E.W. Jackson is urging Christians who are Democrats to renounce the party in protest of plans to include support for same-sex marriage in the party platform to be unveiled at the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Jackson said Democrats inhabit an "anti-Christian, anti-God, anti-Bible, anti-church party that is hostile to everything that Christians believe in and everything we stand for," during an interview Friday on the syndicated Steve Deace radio show, a conservative program.
The party's endorsement of same-sex marriage "is a signal to Christians that the Democrat Party has turned its back on us," he added. "It's time for us to turn our back on it."
Jackson -- he unsuccessfully pursued the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate this spring -- during the broadcast said he was raised in a Democratic family, but "could not in good conscience remain" affiliated with the party after his spiritual awakening.
A trained attorney, Jackson is presiding bishop at Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake.
He's also founder of the Staying True to America's Destiny organization that advocates for the preservation of Judeo-Christian principles, the traditional family structure and a strict constructionist reading of the U.S. Constitution.
Jackson has been openly critical of Democrats including President Barack Obama and former Gov. Tim Kaine, who's running for Senate against GOP nominee George Allen, and outspoken about his views on race and problems in the black community.
Alluding to a biblical parable later in the interview, Jackson said blacks in particular, "are willing to sell their Christian birthright for the bowl of porridge that the Democrat Party offers in terms of welfare, food stamps, programs, affirmative action, what have you."
Their attitude is "it doesn't matter what God says. It just matters that they're going to do something for me," he added. "Well frankly, that should no longer pass muster. It's time for a conviction of conscience. It's time for us to take action."
-- Julian Walker
Jackson’s Lieutenant Governor Website
E.W. Jackson has been an outspoken conservative leader for several years. He is an outstanding speaker.