Last month, Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign launched a “prayer team” whose members can join a conference call every week with pastors who back Cruz to pray for the candidate and his campaign. These calls have gone pretty much how you would expect them to, with last week’s call featuring a Tennessee pastor lamenting that the “powers of darkness” are attacking the church not only through ISIS and domestic terrorist attacks but also through Planned Parenthood and marriage equality.
Dale Walker, the head of the Tennessee Pastor’s Network, echoed the Texas senator’s father Rafael Cruz in castigating the church for sitting by without stopping “the moral decline of our nation.”
“We all know that we’re in a spiritual battle today as never before,” he said. “The powers of darkness is bombarding the last bastion of truth as never before and the last bastion of truth is the church. The complete reengineering of our society, folks, is before us, it’s going on right before our very eyes. There seems to be so many issues and sometimes, as a faith leader, I know, it’s daunting to keep up with as leaders of faith with our many responsibilities — from the horrendous barbaric baby parts harvesting to Christian heads being sawn asunder to the Supreme Court redefining biblical, traditional marriage to terrorism right on our own soil.”
