If you thought that Rod Parsley was going to drop out of politics after being humiliated by John McCain, think again. Earlier this week, Parsley aired a special “election edition” of his program “Breakthrough” with special guests Janet Parshall and Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America.
Parsley opened the broadcast recounting fond memories of how “values voters” saved America during the 2004 election and declared that that was “only the beginning.” He then turned the discussion over to Wright and Parshall to explain to his viewers why this upcoming election was even more important than the last.
Parshall, after calling Washington, DC “Babylon,” decried the “spiritual warfare” being waged against Sarah Palin, saying that if you “dare to proclaim to a watching world that you follow Christ Jesus, you have opened the gates of Hell” and suggesting that she is actually being attacked by Satan. When Parsley asked her what the big issues of the election are, Parshall said the question is really “what are the big issues to God?” As it turns out, the big issues to God just happen to be the same as the big issues to the Religious Right: abortion and gays.
For her part, Wright urged Parsley’s viewers to elect candidates who will “follow the Biblical principles of how a nation should be governed.” And, of course, the primary principle was abortion, which Wright compared to the Holocaust, as well as the future of the Supreme Court.
Parsley concluded the program by telling his viewers that it is their votes that will determine if this country will continue to allow the “unconscionable murder of unborn babies, whether it will “stand up for marriage as God intended and his Word declares,” and whether it will continue to drift toward “silencing the voice of every single Christian.”
In short, it was “values voters” who saved the day in 2004 and it will be “values voters” again in 2008 who will “stop the downward spiral of decadence and immorality in our nation once and for all.”
