Several Republican members of Congress, North Carolina state legislators, various candidates for office, and radical religious-right activists gathered at Temple Baptist Church in Mount Airy, North Carolina, last weekend for the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Salt & Light Conference."
Among the politicians in attendance was Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who used his time in front of his home state crowd to declare that he is waging a "spiritual battle" in the supposedly "evil and vile" Washington, D.C., against people like Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her "cold, evil eyes."
"I believe that the power of prayer will save this country in the coming decades," Cawthorn said. "When I'm in Washington, D.C., I know a lot of you consider the place to be evil and vile, and I am here to tell you with first-hand knowledge, it is evil and vile. But I will tell you when I'm there, I don't feel an overwhelming sense of darkness as if the devil has complete dominion of that area because I feel a spiritual battle going on on Capitol Hill. And patriots like all of you in this room, on your knees, praying that we have the cover within the spiritual fight is what it will take to save this country."
"I have to look Nancy Pelosi in her cold, evil eyes every single day," he continued. "She just passed a bill yesterday trying to say that we can abort babies on demand all the way up until right before the day of birth. When we hear this, when we hear the fact that if a baby comes through a botched abortion alive, sitting there on the table, they then still have the right to murder that child, we realize that when I quip and say, 'I look her in her cold, evil eyes,' it's not a joke. These people hate us."
"I will tell you, the only way that we take our country back is when strong, God-fearing patriots decide it is time for us to stand up and say, 'No' to your tyranny," Cawthorn declared. "It is time for the American Christian church to come out of the shadows, to say no longer are we going to allow our culture to be determined by people who hate the things that we believe in. We are going to stand valiantly for God's incredible, inerrant truths that predate any version of government. Because my friends, if we lose this country today, if we bend the knee to the Democrats today, our country will be lost forever, and our children will never know what freedom is. It's our duty to stand up. I encourage you—let us stand united as men and women of faith to fight for our country!"
The bill Cawthorn referred to was the Women’s Health Protection Act, legislation that would protect women’s right to an abortion and prevent states from prohibiting the procedure prior to fetal viability. House Democrats passed the legislation last Friday in response to Texas’ extreme abortion ban.
