Earlier this month, it was announced that right-wing pastor Jim Garlow would be stepping down from his position as pastor at Skyline Church in California in order to focus his attention on “the realm of the governmental,” by which he means establishing Religious Right groups designed to inject his brand of religious conservationism into various governmental organizations.

Last year, Garlow created a ministry designed to target the United Nations and tapped former Rep. Michele Bachmann to lead it. Bachmann was initially reluctant to take the position because, as she said, “I don’t know a darker, more deceived place on earth than the U.N.,” but she was eventually was persuaded to accept in order to prepare the U.N. and the world for the End Times:

Earlier this year, Garlow established another organization in Washington, DC called The Jefferson Gathering that seeks to indoctrinate “not merely Members of the US Congress, but persons in the various agencies such as the State Department and the Department of Justice.” To head that effort, Garlow chose Rick Scarborough, a truly radical and bigoted Religious Right pastor known for his virulent opposition to and attacks on “sodomites.”

Scarborough has declared that AIDS, “a homosexual disease,” is God’s “judgment as a result of an immoral act,” and repeatedly stated his belief that it is “God’s judgment on a sinful generation,” adding that “God would probably give us the cure for AIDS today” if the U.S. stopped supporting gay rights:

Scarborough is so opposed to gay people that, back in 2013, he floated the idea of filing a “class action lawsuit” against homosexuality, much like actions taken against the tobacco industry. He even once agreed with Islamic fundamentalists who call America the “Great Satan,” saying that God would be perfectly justified in sending a nuclear bomb to destroy the country because of such sins as President Obama’s appointments of a handful of gay ambassadors. Scarborough has repeatedly claimed that the Supreme Court’s 2015 marriage equality ruling has made it illegal for Christians to hold elected office or serve as judges, and predicted that pedophilia will soon be legalized and that ministers who refuse to perform same-sex weddings will be jailed.
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