Family Research Council President Tony Perkins appeared on the Truth & Liberty Coalition's livestream program Monday night, where he urged Christians to pray that God will prevent Senate Democrats from eliminating the filibuster and that President Joe Biden's administration will be stymied by gridlock.
Perkins prayed that Biden’s administration will “be confused” and prevented from enacting its political agenda, which he recently said was "literally from the pit of hell," taking aim at the administration’s efforts to offer protections for transgender individuals and funding for reproductive health.
"We just need to continue to pray," Perkins said. "Pray that the Lord would prohibit them from [eliminating the filibuster]. Look, we need God. We need God to move on our behalf. We need to repent as a nation of the stuff that's being pushed through. Just look at what the Biden administration has pushed through, and we're not even talking to legislation yet, but the whole transgender agenda we mentioned a few moments ago, he's put that onto the military, he's put it onto elementary and secondary schools, he's put it on our colleges. Look at the issue of abortion; not just the repeal, the overturning of the Mexico City policy that prohibits [reproductive health] funding in foreign policy, but even the Hyde Amendment that was eliminated in the coronavirus relief bill, the $2 trillion and all the money that's going to flow to Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics. This is atrocious, and we need to be praying that God would move in our country."
"I pray for God's blessing on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, [that] they yield themselves to him, praying that he would turn their hearts as he does the rivers of water," Perkins added. "But if they refuse the truth and go against the truth, I pray that they would be confused, they would have conflict, and gridlock would settle upon Washington D.C."
