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• TED CZ SPARS WH PASTOR OVER UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW
• TED CZ AND THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR
• TED CZ IS CG THE BIBLE AND PREACHG ON TWTER FENSE OF GAY PEOPLE, AND 'S QUE SOMETHG
• WHY IS THE MEDIA IGNORG TED CZ'S EMBRACE OF 'KILL THE GAYS' PASTOR?
• INSI THE ANTI-GAY CHURCH THAT LOV KIM DAVIS AND TED CZREVELATIONTHE WILKS BROTHERS ARE SPENDG LNS TO SUPPORT THE TEXAS SENATOR THE HOPE THAT HE RRI THE TEACHG OF THEIR TY CHURCH ALL THE WAY TO THE WHE HOE.BETSY SWANFORMER POLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 5:56PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 04, 2016 12:13AM EST FACEBOOKCISCO, TEXAS — RIGHT OUTSI THIS LTLE TOWN, THERE’S A TY CHURCH THAT WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD. AND, THANKS TO THE BILLNAIRE PASTOR’S BACKG, JT MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET THAT DONE.THE CHURCH IS THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH, AND S PASTOR, FARRIS WILKS, HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL NEW PLAYERS PRINTIAL POLICS. FARRIS, ALONG WH HIS BROTHER DAN, MA HIS FORTUNE OFF THE ACKG BOOM AND IS G PART OF TO BACK SEN. TED CZ HIS BID FOR THE WHE HOE.BUT NEW WEALTH DIDN’T DT HIS MMENT TO OLD-TIME RELIGN—AND TO THE CULTURE WAR (READ: ANTI-GAY) POLICS THAT FED GEE W. BH’S PRINTIAL MPAIGNS. NOW, CZ IS TAKG A PAGE OUT OF KARL ROVE’S PLAYBOOK, LOOKG TO GALVANIZE EVANGELIL VOTERS AS A WAY TO MAKE THE REPUBLIN PARTY PETIVE AGA. AND FARRIS WILKS IS JT THE GUY TO FUND THAT EFFORT.THE WILKS BROTHERS AND THEIR WIV HAVE GIVEN $15 LN TO ONE OF CZ’S SUPER PACS—ONE OF THE BIGGT NTRIBUTNS OF THIS MPAIGN CYCLE, EHER PARTY. AND THEIR GENEROSY THAT HAS CHANGED THE NTOURS OF THE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL PRIMARY IS NEWFOUND: THE CENTER FOR RPONSIVE POLICS NOT THAT THE BROTHERS AND THEIR WIV HAD ONLY GIVEN $263,000 TO FERAL NDIDAT BEFORE GOG ALL FOR CZ THIS CYCLE. FARRIS WILKS DIDN’T SPEAK WH THE DAILY BEAST FOR THIS STORY, BUT A VIS TO THE CHURCH HE PASTORS MAY SHED LIGHT ON THE WAY THE BILLNAIRE’S FAH RMS HIS MMENT TO BANKROLLG A CULTURE WARRR LIKE CZ.AT THE END OF DECEMBER, THE BROTHERS HOSTED CZ AND NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN LEARS FOR A FUNDRAISER AT FARRIS’S HOMTEAD CIS, AS THE WASHGTON POST TAILED. AND RELLS A CENTRAL ELEMENT OF CZ’S MPAIGN: HE’S SAID HE N W THE WHE HOE BY DRAMATILLY BOOSTG TURNOUT AMONG EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS (NEVER MD THAT HIS STRATEGY MAY HAVE A MATH PROBLEM).THE LAST TIME REPUBLINS WON THE WHE HOE, WAY BACK 2004, EVANGELIL TURNOUT WAS THE CLCHER. SO, CZ ARGU, ’S WORTH ANOTHER SHOT. AND WILKS’S LTLE CHURCH PROVIS A TY PREVIEW OF WHAT CZ’S EVANGELIL ARMY ULD LOOK LIKE.ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH IS JT OFF A LER-STRAIGHT TWO-LANE HIGHWAY THAT NS BETWEEN CIS, TEXAS, (POPULATN 3,820), AND RISG STAR (“A SMALL TOWN WH A BIG TWKLE,” POPULATN 799), AND A FEW DOWN OM THE ORNATE GAT TO WILKS’S HOME. THE ROADSI IS DOTTED WH LONGHORN TTLE, CEMETERI, AND SMALL OIL PUMPJACKS. SUBURBANS AND PICKUP TCKS WHIP AROUND YOU IF YOU DRIVE EVEN A HAIR BELOW THE 75 MPH SPEED LIM.THE BUILDG SELF IS SIMPLE, WH TAN BRICKS AND CLEAN L. THERE’S A LARGE PLAYGROUND OUT ONT AND A PAVILN BEHD. TWO YOUNG GIRLS SWG OPEN THE PAIR OF GLASS ENTRANCE DOORS WHEN I WALK UP, AND THE YOUNGER ONE—WHO LOOKS ABOUT 7 YEARS OLD—YELLS, “GO THROUGH ME, GO THROUGH ME!” THEN SHE GIV ME A HUG.RIGHT SI, THERE’S A TABLE WH A PURPLE SIGN THAT SAYS, “THE SALT & LIGHT MISTRY BIBLIL CIZENSHIP”—A PROJECT THAT ENURAG CHURCHGOERS TO NTACT THEIR ELECTED REPRENTATIV ABOUT A DIFFERENT POLICY ISSUE EVERY MONTH. IT’S AFFILIATED WH THE LIBERTY COUNSEL, THE GROUP THAT REPRENTS KENTUCKY UNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS. THIS IS NO ACCINT, SCE FARRIS WILKS SUPPORTS LIBERTY COUNSEL (ACRDG TO RTERS, WHICH REPORTS HE’S GIVEN THE GROUP $1.5 LN).CZ RECENTLY TOLD BACKERS AT A PRIVATE MANHATTAN FUNDRAISG EVENT THAT MARRIAGE WASN’T ONE OF HIS TOP THREE ISSU, BUT GETS TOP BILLG AT HIS BENEFACTOR’S CHURCH. THERE IS A SECTN FOR TOPICS THEY ALWAYS PRAY FOR—THE PEACE OF JESALEM, ALL BRETHREN EVERYWHERE, HOPEFUL COUPL (“YAHWEH’S BLSGS FOR UPL EAGERLY AWAG CHILDREN”), AS WELL AS YOUNG PEOPLE, PREGNANT WOMEN, AND THE UNEMPLOYED. THEN THERE ARE A FEW NEW EMS: ATTEN WHO ARE ILL, FACG SURGERY, OR REVERG OM . AND FALLY, THERE IS A LIST OF NTUED PRAYERS, CLUDG ABOUT TWO DOZEN PEOPLE OM THE AREA FACG VAR HEALTH PROBLEMS.THEN THERE’S AN ENTRY FOR OBERGEFELL V. HODG.“THE SUPREME COURT HAS ISSUED A LG REGNIZG HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT, THEREBY FORCG ALL STAT TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO HOMOSEXUAL UPL WH THEIR STAT, AND REGNIZE AS VALID HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG ISSUED OTHER STAT,” READS. “PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR NATN AS WE ENTER A TIME OF UPHEAVAL, AND PRAY FOR THOSE PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO ARE FIGHTG TO MATA THEIR RELIG BELIEFS. (7/4/15)”AND, FALLY, THERE’S THE SPACE FOR KIM DAVIS.“KIM DAVIS, THE COUNTY CLERK OF ROWAN COUNTY, KY, WAS JAILED ON 9/3 FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT AFTER REFG TO ISSUE SAME SEX MARRIAGE LICENS,” SAYS. “LIBERTY COUNSEL IS REPRENTG MRS. DAVIS. MANY OTHER ERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE ALSO REFG TO PLY WH THE SUPREME URT CISN, HOWEVER MRS. DAVIS IS THE FIRST TO BE JAILED FOR HER NVICTNS. (9/5/15)”LIKE KIM DAVIS’S APOSTOLIC PENTESTAL CHURCH, THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH REJECTS THE DOCTRE OF THE TRY—THAT GOD IS ONE BUT EXISTS AS THREE PERSONS, THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIR. INSTEAD, THE CHURCH TEACH THAT YAHWEH IS THE ONLY GOD AND THAT YAHSHUAH (J), IS A SEPARATE BEG. (DAVIS’S NOMATN TEACH THAT J, THE HOLY SPIR, AND GOD ARE DIFFERENT NAM FOR THE SAME BEG—ALSO A REJECTN OF TRARIAN DOCTRE, BUT A DIFFERENT WAY.)THOUGH THEIR THEOLOGY ISN’T INTIL, DAVIS AND WILKS SHARE A MTED OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. ACRDG TO SERMONS TRANSCRIBED BY THE LIBERAL GROUP RIGHT WG WATCH, WILKS HAS PREACHED THAT LGBT PEOPLE ENDANGER CHILDREN.“IF WE ALL TOOK ON THIS LIFTYLE, ALL HUMANY WOULD PERISH ONE GENERATN,” HE SAID ONE SERMON. “SO THIS LIFTYLE IS A PREDATORIAL LIFTYLE, THAT THEY NEED YOUR CHILDREN AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE HAVG KIDS TO FULFILL THEIR SEXUAL HABS. THEY N’T DO BY THEIR SELF. THEY WANT YOUR CHILDREN… BUT WE’RE A WAR FOR OUR CHILDREN. THEY WANT YOUR CHILDREN. SO WHAT WILL YOU TEACH YOUR CHILDREN? A STRONG FAY IS THE LAST FENSE.”THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH’S TEACHGS ON ISRAEL AND JEWISHNS ARE ALSO TERTG. A PAMPHLET LLED DOCTRAL POTS SAYS, “[WE BELIEVE] THAT THE TE RELIGN IS JEWISH (NOT A GENTILE RELIGN)… [T]HE GENTIL MT BE ADOPTED TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL. THIS IS DONE BY BAPTISM TO YAHSHUA.”THE PAMPHLET SAYS THAT THE NGREGATN DO NOT OBSERVE “THE RELIG HOLIDAYS OF THE GENTIL”—CLUDG CHRISTMAS, EASTER, VALENTE’S DAY, AND HALLOWEEN. INSTEAD, THEY CELEBRATE FEASTS MENTNED THE OLD TTAMENT. IN PARTICULAR, THE NGREGATN SLEEPS OUTSI TENTS OR MPERS FOR A WEEK THE SPRG TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND AGA FOR A WEEK THE FALL TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF THE TABERNACLE. RUTH YORK, A MEMBER OF THE NGREGATN, SAID THE WEEKLONG CELEBRATNS TAKE PLACE ON CHURCH PROPERTY AND CLU BOUNCE-HO FOR KIDS, OKOUTS, AND SOFTBALL GAM.THEY FOLLOW THE OLD TTAMENT TEACHGS ON EATG LAID OUT LEVIC 11, WHICH MEANS NO PORK AND NO SHELLFISH. AND THE CHURCH TEACH “[T]HAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A SER CRIME—A VERY GRIEVO S.” SO IS GETTG DNK. “IT IS BCHERY,” THE PAMPHLET ON DOCTRE SAYS. “DNKENNS IS CLASSED WH SUCH GRIEVO CRIM AS ROBBERY, SEXUAL PERVERTS, ADULTERY, AND IDOLATRY. DO NOT BE CEIVED; NO DNKARD WILL ENTER THE KGDOM OF YAHWEH.”THEY WORSHIP ON SATURDAYS. FARRIS WILKS’S PARENTS, VOY AND MYRTLE WILKS, WERE FOUNDG MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH BACK 1947, ACRDG TO A SEPARATE PAMPHLET ON THE NGREGATN’S HISTORY. FARRIS IS NOW THE NGREGATN’S PASTOR.BIS S LERAL READG OF MUCH OF THE OLD TTAMENT, THE CHURCH ALSO DISTGUISH SELF S POLIL ADVOCY. BI THE BULLETS IS A PAMPHLET OM A GROUP LLED STAND UP TEXAS, PRAISG MOLLY CRER—A CLERK OF IRN COUNTY WHO ISSUED A CLARATN THIS SUMMER THROUGH LIBERTY COUNSEL PROMISG TO REFE TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO SAME-SEX UPL.THE CHURCH SERVICE SELF—KICKED OFF WH THREE BLASTS OF A SHOFAR BY A TEEN NAMED ISAAC—WAS LARGELY APOLIL. THERE ARE TONS MORE KIDS AND NO SUNDAY SCHOOL, SO THE SANCTUARY IS FILLED WH THEIR MUFFLED HUM—LORG THEIR BULLETS, CRYG, PHG THEIR SIBLGS, GIGGLG, AND WANRG ABOUT. A TOWHEAD TODDLER THE ROW ONT OF ME KEEPS HERSELF BY WH A PK PLASTIC STLE. AT ONE POT DURG OPENG WORSHIP SONGS, AN ORANGE BALL BOUNC ACROSS THE AISLE. IT’S TAKEN STRI.AFTER THE SERVICE WRAPPED UP, AN ANNOUNCER NOTED THAT WAS SALT & LIGHT SUNDAY, WHICH ONCE A MONTH. YORK EXPLAED THAT THE NGREGATN BEME PART OF THE MISTRY SEVERAL MONTHS AGO—A PROJECT AFFILIATED WH THE LIBERTY COUNSEL (WHICH WORKS WH DAVIS AND CRER). CHURCH THAT PARTICIPATE THE SALT & LIGHT MISTRY HAVE A TABLE SET UP ONCE A MONTH THAT ENURAG ATTEN TO LL OR WRE POSTRDS TO THEIR REPRENTATIV— THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND WASHGTON—ABOUT A DIFFERENT TOPICS. THIS MONTH, ONE FOC IS THE TEXAS ADVANCE DIRECTIV ACT, A LAW THAT AFFECTS END-OF-LIFE RE CISNS. YORK, THE VOLUNTEER LIAISON FOR SALT & LIGHT, TELLS NGREGANTS THAT THE LAW MEANS HOSPALS ULD “PULL THE PLUG” ON PATIENTS AGAST THEIR EXPRSLY STATED WISH.THEN JO ANN WILKS, FARRIS’S WIFE, STANDS UP FOR A QUICK TERJECTN, TRATED WH THE QUALY-OF-LIFE RATNALE SHE SAYS IS SOMETIM ED THE SUATNS.“WE WILL PUT AWAY MURRERS THAT DO HORRIFIC CRIM, AND PAY FOR THEIR PATHETIC QUALY OF LIFE, AND THEY HAVE NO QUALMS ABOUT THAT,” SHE SAID.IT’S NOT JT END-OF-LIFE ISSU. VISORS TO THE SALT & LIGHT TABLE WERE ALSO ENURAGED TO WRE THEIR REPRENTATIV ABOUT THE TRANSGENR BATHROOM BATE, AS WELL AS TO URGE THEIR REPRENTATIV TO LL FOR PUBLIC HEARGS ON THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AND THE TRANSATLANTIC TRA AND INVTMENT PARTNERSHIP. IF THAT WASN’T ENOUGH TO KEEP SALT & LIGHTERS BY, A BULLET SERT ALSO SUGGTED THAT THE RECENT PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AL ULD MEAN WE ARE “MISG OUR YAH-GIVEN DOMN.”THAT REFERS TO A VERSE GENIS WHERE GOD LLS ON ADAM AND EVE TO HAVE DOMN OVER THE EARTH—A PASSAGE OFTEN CED BY OPPONENTS OF LAWS SIGNED TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE.“MAN, CREATED YAHWEH’S IMAGE, IS TO EXERCISE DOMN OVER ALL THE EARTH,” THE SERT SAYS. “YET DISAGREEMENTS THE SCIENTIFIC MUNY GIVE PSE NCERNG THE WISDOM OF THE RECENTLY-ADOPTED CLIMATE CHANGE ACRD.”AN ATTACHED POSTRD ENURAG MEMBERS TO WRE TO THEIR REPRENTATIV ASKG FOR PUBLIC HEARGS ON THE PARIS AL.THE PROGRAM IS AN NOVATIVE WAY FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN PASTORS TO KEEP THEIR NGREGATNS ENGAGED WH POLICY ISSU EVEN WHEN DONALD TMP ISN’T YELLG ABOUT THEM. IT WON’T RULT THE STANT MATERIALIZATN OF CZ’S CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS. BUT —AND ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH—IS A REMR THAT THOUGH THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT HAS BEEN SET BACK ON S HEELS FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS OR SO, ’S FAR OM WED.“WE ARE NOT LLED TO ISOLATN,” THE PASTOR SAID. “WE ARE LLED TO CHANGE THE WORLD.” BETSY SWAN
• TED CZ EMBRAC APOLYPTIC PREACHERS AND ANTI-GAY ANTS
• ANTI-GAY PASTOR EVENT HOSTS 3 GOP NDIDAT
• TED CZ SPARS WH PASTOR OVER UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW
• SEN. TED CZ ISSU MAJOR GAY MARRIAGE WARNG FOR PASTORS AND CHRISTIANS, ALIKE
• REPUBLIN CANDIDAT ATTEND RALLY WHERE PASTOR ADVOT "DEATH PENALTY" FOR GAY PEOPLE
• TED CZ LLED UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW 'HORRIFIC.' LAST YEAR, HE VOTED AGAST PROTECTG SAME SEX MARRIAG.

TED CZ SPARS WH PASTOR OVER UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW

Ted Cz, R-Texas, sparred wh a pastor on Twter over an anti-LGBTQ law Uganda, askg the fah lear if “you really believe" the Uned Stat' ernment "should execute every person who is gay?

TED CZ AND THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR

”Cz last week lled the law, which impos the ath penalty for what lls "aggravated homosexualy" and tablish lifetime prison sentenc for people who engage gay sex, “horrific & wrong” on Twter. ”“Do you really believe that the US t should execute every person who is gay??

TED CZ IS CG THE BIBLE AND PREACHG ON TWTER FENSE OF GAY PEOPLE, AND 'S QUE SOMETHG

""First, he asks, 'Do you really believe that the US t should execute every person who is gay?

Republin Ted Cz sparred wh a pastor over the Texas senator's opposn to Uganda's new anti-gay law. Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni last month signed one of the world's most strgent anti-LGBTQ+ laws that clus the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy, " pal punishment for "serial offenrs" of the law and transmissn of HIV/AIDs through gay sex and a 20-year-sentence for promotg homosexualy, Rters reported. Across the globe, at least 11 other untri also allow the ath penalty as a punishment for homosexualy, acrdg to Human Digny Tst.

WHY IS THE MEDIA IGNORG TED CZ'S EMBRACE OF 'KILL THE GAYS' PASTOR?

" He tweeted that any law crimalizg homosexualy is "grotque & an abomatn, " urgg "civilized" natns to nmn Uganda's law. Cz sparred wh a pastor over his opposn to Uganda's new anti-gay law on Monday. While nmnatn me om both major polil parti, some on the right have fend the law that implements the ath penalty for some gay on Monday rpond to a pastor who cricized his opposn to Uganda's Asl, pastor of Grace Baptist Church Cape Coral, Florida, rpond to Cz's tweet llg out Uganda's law, wrg: "Tell to God, Ted, " while cg a Bible verse equently ed to jtify opposn to LGBTQ+ rights.

Do you really believe that the US t should execute every person who is gay?? Ernment should execute gay people but that the pot of his qutn was to "terme if the senator believ that when God crimalized homosexual nduct the Old Ttament that our Maker was guilty of prcribg a law horrific and grotque law.

16, 2015EARLIER this month, D Mo, the proment home-schoolg advote and pastor Kev Swanson aga lled for the punishment of homosexualy by ath. To be clear, he add that the time for elimatg Ameri’s gay populatn was “not yet” at hand.

INSI THE ANTI-GAY CHURCH THAT LOV KIM DAVIS AND TED CZREVELATIONTHE WILKS BROTHERS ARE SPENDG LNS TO SUPPORT THE TEXAS SENATOR THE HOPE THAT HE RRI THE TEACHG OF THEIR TY CHURCH ALL THE WAY TO THE WHE HOE.BETSY SWANFORMER POLIL REPORTERUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 5:56PM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 04, 2016 12:13AM EST FACEBOOKCISCO, TEXAS — RIGHT OUTSI THIS LTLE TOWN, THERE’S A TY CHURCH THAT WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD. AND, THANKS TO THE BILLNAIRE PASTOR’S BACKG, JT MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET THAT DONE.THE CHURCH IS THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH, AND S PASTOR, FARRIS WILKS, HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL NEW PLAYERS PRINTIAL POLICS. FARRIS, ALONG WH HIS BROTHER DAN, MA HIS FORTUNE OFF THE ACKG BOOM AND IS G PART OF TO BACK SEN. TED CZ HIS BID FOR THE WHE HOE.BUT NEW WEALTH DIDN’T DT HIS MMENT TO OLD-TIME RELIGN—AND TO THE CULTURE WAR (READ: ANTI-GAY) POLICS THAT FED GEE W. BH’S PRINTIAL MPAIGNS. NOW, CZ IS TAKG A PAGE OUT OF KARL ROVE’S PLAYBOOK, LOOKG TO GALVANIZE EVANGELIL VOTERS AS A WAY TO MAKE THE REPUBLIN PARTY PETIVE AGA. AND FARRIS WILKS IS JT THE GUY TO FUND THAT EFFORT.THE WILKS BROTHERS AND THEIR WIV HAVE GIVEN $15 LN TO ONE OF CZ’S SUPER PACS—ONE OF THE BIGGT NTRIBUTNS OF THIS MPAIGN CYCLE, EHER PARTY. AND THEIR GENEROSY THAT HAS CHANGED THE NTOURS OF THE REPUBLIN PRINTIAL PRIMARY IS NEWFOUND: THE CENTER FOR RPONSIVE POLICS NOT THAT THE BROTHERS AND THEIR WIV HAD ONLY GIVEN $263,000 TO FERAL NDIDAT BEFORE GOG ALL FOR CZ THIS CYCLE. FARRIS WILKS DIDN’T SPEAK WH THE DAILY BEAST FOR THIS STORY, BUT A VIS TO THE CHURCH HE PASTORS MAY SHED LIGHT ON THE WAY THE BILLNAIRE’S FAH RMS HIS MMENT TO BANKROLLG A CULTURE WARRR LIKE CZ.AT THE END OF DECEMBER, THE BROTHERS HOSTED CZ AND NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN LEARS FOR A FUNDRAISER AT FARRIS’S HOMTEAD CIS, AS THE WASHGTON POST TAILED. AND RELLS A CENTRAL ELEMENT OF CZ’S MPAIGN: HE’S SAID HE N W THE WHE HOE BY DRAMATILLY BOOSTG TURNOUT AMONG EVANGELIL CHRISTIANS (NEVER MD THAT HIS STRATEGY MAY HAVE A MATH PROBLEM).THE LAST TIME REPUBLINS WON THE WHE HOE, WAY BACK 2004, EVANGELIL TURNOUT WAS THE CLCHER. SO, CZ ARGU, ’S WORTH ANOTHER SHOT. AND WILKS’S LTLE CHURCH PROVIS A TY PREVIEW OF WHAT CZ’S EVANGELIL ARMY ULD LOOK LIKE.ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH IS JT OFF A LER-STRAIGHT TWO-LANE HIGHWAY THAT NS BETWEEN CIS, TEXAS, (POPULATN 3,820), AND RISG STAR (“A SMALL TOWN WH A BIG TWKLE,” POPULATN 799), AND A FEW DOWN OM THE ORNATE GAT TO WILKS’S HOME. THE ROADSI IS DOTTED WH LONGHORN TTLE, CEMETERI, AND SMALL OIL PUMPJACKS. SUBURBANS AND PICKUP TCKS WHIP AROUND YOU IF YOU DRIVE EVEN A HAIR BELOW THE 75 MPH SPEED LIM.THE BUILDG SELF IS SIMPLE, WH TAN BRICKS AND CLEAN L. THERE’S A LARGE PLAYGROUND OUT ONT AND A PAVILN BEHD. TWO YOUNG GIRLS SWG OPEN THE PAIR OF GLASS ENTRANCE DOORS WHEN I WALK UP, AND THE YOUNGER ONE—WHO LOOKS ABOUT 7 YEARS OLD—YELLS, “GO THROUGH ME, GO THROUGH ME!” THEN SHE GIV ME A HUG.RIGHT SI, THERE’S A TABLE WH A PURPLE SIGN THAT SAYS, “THE SALT & LIGHT MISTRY BIBLIL CIZENSHIP”—A PROJECT THAT ENURAG CHURCHGOERS TO NTACT THEIR ELECTED REPRENTATIV ABOUT A DIFFERENT POLICY ISSUE EVERY MONTH. IT’S AFFILIATED WH THE LIBERTY COUNSEL, THE GROUP THAT REPRENTS KENTUCKY UNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS. THIS IS NO ACCINT, SCE FARRIS WILKS SUPPORTS LIBERTY COUNSEL (ACRDG TO RTERS, WHICH REPORTS HE’S GIVEN THE GROUP $1.5 LN).CZ RECENTLY TOLD BACKERS AT A PRIVATE MANHATTAN FUNDRAISG EVENT THAT MARRIAGE WASN’T ONE OF HIS TOP THREE ISSU, BUT GETS TOP BILLG AT HIS BENEFACTOR’S CHURCH. THERE IS A SECTN FOR TOPICS THEY ALWAYS PRAY FOR—THE PEACE OF JESALEM, ALL BRETHREN EVERYWHERE, HOPEFUL COUPL (“YAHWEH’S BLSGS FOR UPL EAGERLY AWAG CHILDREN”), AS WELL AS YOUNG PEOPLE, PREGNANT WOMEN, AND THE UNEMPLOYED. THEN THERE ARE A FEW NEW EMS: ATTEN WHO ARE ILL, FACG SURGERY, OR REVERG OM . AND FALLY, THERE IS A LIST OF NTUED PRAYERS, CLUDG ABOUT TWO DOZEN PEOPLE OM THE AREA FACG VAR HEALTH PROBLEMS.THEN THERE’S AN ENTRY FOR OBERGEFELL V. HODG.“THE SUPREME COURT HAS ISSUED A LG REGNIZG HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE THE UNED STAT, THEREBY FORCG ALL STAT TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO HOMOSEXUAL UPL WH THEIR STAT, AND REGNIZE AS VALID HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAG ISSUED OTHER STAT,” READS. “PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR NATN AS WE ENTER A TIME OF UPHEAVAL, AND PRAY FOR THOSE PUBLIC OFFICIALS WHO ARE FIGHTG TO MATA THEIR RELIG BELIEFS. (7/4/15)”AND, FALLY, THERE’S THE SPACE FOR KIM DAVIS.“KIM DAVIS, THE COUNTY CLERK OF ROWAN COUNTY, KY, WAS JAILED ON 9/3 FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT AFTER REFG TO ISSUE SAME SEX MARRIAGE LICENS,” SAYS. “LIBERTY COUNSEL IS REPRENTG MRS. DAVIS. MANY OTHER ERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE ALSO REFG TO PLY WH THE SUPREME URT CISN, HOWEVER MRS. DAVIS IS THE FIRST TO BE JAILED FOR HER NVICTNS. (9/5/15)”LIKE KIM DAVIS’S APOSTOLIC PENTESTAL CHURCH, THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH REJECTS THE DOCTRE OF THE TRY—THAT GOD IS ONE BUT EXISTS AS THREE PERSONS, THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIR. INSTEAD, THE CHURCH TEACH THAT YAHWEH IS THE ONLY GOD AND THAT YAHSHUAH (J), IS A SEPARATE BEG. (DAVIS’S NOMATN TEACH THAT J, THE HOLY SPIR, AND GOD ARE DIFFERENT NAM FOR THE SAME BEG—ALSO A REJECTN OF TRARIAN DOCTRE, BUT A DIFFERENT WAY.)THOUGH THEIR THEOLOGY ISN’T INTIL, DAVIS AND WILKS SHARE A MTED OPPOSN TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. ACRDG TO SERMONS TRANSCRIBED BY THE LIBERAL GROUP RIGHT WG WATCH, WILKS HAS PREACHED THAT LGBT PEOPLE ENDANGER CHILDREN.“IF WE ALL TOOK ON THIS LIFTYLE, ALL HUMANY WOULD PERISH ONE GENERATN,” HE SAID ONE SERMON. “SO THIS LIFTYLE IS A PREDATORIAL LIFTYLE, THAT THEY NEED YOUR CHILDREN AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE HAVG KIDS TO FULFILL THEIR SEXUAL HABS. THEY N’T DO BY THEIR SELF. THEY WANT YOUR CHILDREN… BUT WE’RE A WAR FOR OUR CHILDREN. THEY WANT YOUR CHILDREN. SO WHAT WILL YOU TEACH YOUR CHILDREN? A STRONG FAY IS THE LAST FENSE.”THE ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH’S TEACHGS ON ISRAEL AND JEWISHNS ARE ALSO TERTG. A PAMPHLET LLED DOCTRAL POTS SAYS, “[WE BELIEVE] THAT THE TE RELIGN IS JEWISH (NOT A GENTILE RELIGN)… [T]HE GENTIL MT BE ADOPTED TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL. THIS IS DONE BY BAPTISM TO YAHSHUA.”THE PAMPHLET SAYS THAT THE NGREGATN DO NOT OBSERVE “THE RELIG HOLIDAYS OF THE GENTIL”—CLUDG CHRISTMAS, EASTER, VALENTE’S DAY, AND HALLOWEEN. INSTEAD, THEY CELEBRATE FEASTS MENTNED THE OLD TTAMENT. IN PARTICULAR, THE NGREGATN SLEEPS OUTSI TENTS OR MPERS FOR A WEEK THE SPRG TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, AND AGA FOR A WEEK THE FALL TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST OF THE TABERNACLE. RUTH YORK, A MEMBER OF THE NGREGATN, SAID THE WEEKLONG CELEBRATNS TAKE PLACE ON CHURCH PROPERTY AND CLU BOUNCE-HO FOR KIDS, OKOUTS, AND SOFTBALL GAM.THEY FOLLOW THE OLD TTAMENT TEACHGS ON EATG LAID OUT LEVIC 11, WHICH MEANS NO PORK AND NO SHELLFISH. AND THE CHURCH TEACH “[T]HAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A SER CRIME—A VERY GRIEVO S.” SO IS GETTG DNK. “IT IS BCHERY,” THE PAMPHLET ON DOCTRE SAYS. “DNKENNS IS CLASSED WH SUCH GRIEVO CRIM AS ROBBERY, SEXUAL PERVERTS, ADULTERY, AND IDOLATRY. DO NOT BE CEIVED; NO DNKARD WILL ENTER THE KGDOM OF YAHWEH.”THEY WORSHIP ON SATURDAYS. FARRIS WILKS’S PARENTS, VOY AND MYRTLE WILKS, WERE FOUNDG MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH BACK 1947, ACRDG TO A SEPARATE PAMPHLET ON THE NGREGATN’S HISTORY. FARRIS IS NOW THE NGREGATN’S PASTOR.BIS S LERAL READG OF MUCH OF THE OLD TTAMENT, THE CHURCH ALSO DISTGUISH SELF S POLIL ADVOCY. BI THE BULLETS IS A PAMPHLET OM A GROUP LLED STAND UP TEXAS, PRAISG MOLLY CRER—A CLERK OF IRN COUNTY WHO ISSUED A CLARATN THIS SUMMER THROUGH LIBERTY COUNSEL PROMISG TO REFE TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENS TO SAME-SEX UPL.THE CHURCH SERVICE SELF—KICKED OFF WH THREE BLASTS OF A SHOFAR BY A TEEN NAMED ISAAC—WAS LARGELY APOLIL. THERE ARE TONS MORE KIDS AND NO SUNDAY SCHOOL, SO THE SANCTUARY IS FILLED WH THEIR MUFFLED HUM—LORG THEIR BULLETS, CRYG, PHG THEIR SIBLGS, GIGGLG, AND WANRG ABOUT. A TOWHEAD TODDLER THE ROW ONT OF ME KEEPS HERSELF BY WH A PK PLASTIC STLE. AT ONE POT DURG OPENG WORSHIP SONGS, AN ORANGE BALL BOUNC ACROSS THE AISLE. IT’S TAKEN STRI.AFTER THE SERVICE WRAPPED UP, AN ANNOUNCER NOTED THAT WAS SALT & LIGHT SUNDAY, WHICH ONCE A MONTH. YORK EXPLAED THAT THE NGREGATN BEME PART OF THE MISTRY SEVERAL MONTHS AGO—A PROJECT AFFILIATED WH THE LIBERTY COUNSEL (WHICH WORKS WH DAVIS AND CRER). CHURCH THAT PARTICIPATE THE SALT & LIGHT MISTRY HAVE A TABLE SET UP ONCE A MONTH THAT ENURAG ATTEN TO LL OR WRE POSTRDS TO THEIR REPRENTATIV— THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND WASHGTON—ABOUT A DIFFERENT TOPICS. THIS MONTH, ONE FOC IS THE TEXAS ADVANCE DIRECTIV ACT, A LAW THAT AFFECTS END-OF-LIFE RE CISNS. YORK, THE VOLUNTEER LIAISON FOR SALT & LIGHT, TELLS NGREGANTS THAT THE LAW MEANS HOSPALS ULD “PULL THE PLUG” ON PATIENTS AGAST THEIR EXPRSLY STATED WISH.THEN JO ANN WILKS, FARRIS’S WIFE, STANDS UP FOR A QUICK TERJECTN, TRATED WH THE QUALY-OF-LIFE RATNALE SHE SAYS IS SOMETIM ED THE SUATNS.“WE WILL PUT AWAY MURRERS THAT DO HORRIFIC CRIM, AND PAY FOR THEIR PATHETIC QUALY OF LIFE, AND THEY HAVE NO QUALMS ABOUT THAT,” SHE SAID.IT’S NOT JT END-OF-LIFE ISSU. VISORS TO THE SALT & LIGHT TABLE WERE ALSO ENURAGED TO WRE THEIR REPRENTATIV ABOUT THE TRANSGENR BATHROOM BATE, AS WELL AS TO URGE THEIR REPRENTATIV TO LL FOR PUBLIC HEARGS ON THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AND THE TRANSATLANTIC TRA AND INVTMENT PARTNERSHIP. IF THAT WASN’T ENOUGH TO KEEP SALT & LIGHTERS BY, A BULLET SERT ALSO SUGGTED THAT THE RECENT PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE AL ULD MEAN WE ARE “MISG OUR YAH-GIVEN DOMN.”THAT REFERS TO A VERSE GENIS WHERE GOD LLS ON ADAM AND EVE TO HAVE DOMN OVER THE EARTH—A PASSAGE OFTEN CED BY OPPONENTS OF LAWS SIGNED TO CURB CLIMATE CHANGE.“MAN, CREATED YAHWEH’S IMAGE, IS TO EXERCISE DOMN OVER ALL THE EARTH,” THE SERT SAYS. “YET DISAGREEMENTS THE SCIENTIFIC MUNY GIVE PSE NCERNG THE WISDOM OF THE RECENTLY-ADOPTED CLIMATE CHANGE ACRD.”AN ATTACHED POSTRD ENURAG MEMBERS TO WRE TO THEIR REPRENTATIV ASKG FOR PUBLIC HEARGS ON THE PARIS AL.THE PROGRAM IS AN NOVATIVE WAY FOR NSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN PASTORS TO KEEP THEIR NGREGATNS ENGAGED WH POLICY ISSU EVEN WHEN DONALD TMP ISN’T YELLG ABOUT THEM. IT WON’T RULT THE STANT MATERIALIZATN OF CZ’S CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS. BUT —AND ASSEMBLY OF YAHWEH—IS A REMR THAT THOUGH THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT HAS BEEN SET BACK ON S HEELS FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS OR SO, ’S FAR OM WED.“WE ARE NOT LLED TO ISOLATN,” THE PASTOR SAID. “WE ARE LLED TO CHANGE THE WORLD.” BETSY SWAN

We mt wa for the natn to embrace the one te relign, he suggted, and gay people mt be allowed to repent and Swanson proposed this at the Natnal Relig Liberti Conference, an event he anized. Swanson’s referenc to the monic power of “the homosexual B, ” the unmigated evil of Harry Potter and the Disney character Prcs Elsa’s lbian Cz apparently felt ltle need to make exc.

TED CZ EMBRAC APOLYPTIC PREACHERS AND ANTI-GAY ANTS

Other power centers clu Liberty Universy (now a required stop on the mpaign trail); nservative policy anizatns like the Amerin Fay Associatn and Concerned Women for Ameri; and Christian legal advocy groups like Liberty Counsel (whose -founr, Mat Staver, acted as Kim Davis’s lawyer) and the Alliance Defendg Freedom, the legal powerhoe behd the Hobby Lobby cisn (whose print, Alan Sears, -wrote a book 2003 tled “The Homosexual Agenda: Exposg the Prcipal Threat to Relig Freedom Today”) talkg about relig nservativ Ameri, we might perhaps njure up an image of a farmer Iowa or a small-bs owner Oh who go to church and holds tradnal valu. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 23 of the New York edn wh the headle: Ted Cz and the Anti-Gay Pastor. Ted Cz preached tolerance for gay people durg a Twter spat wh a pastor.

"Let he that is whout s among you, let him first st a stone at her, " Cz had prevly nmned Uganda's harsh new anti-gay Ted Cz on Monday ced the Bible and quoted vers fense of LGBTQ+ muni, a stark parture om his cidly nservative posn on gay rights.

A Florida pastor, Tom Asl, tweeted a Bible verse that suggted every gay man should be put to ath, to which Cz rpond: "Your biblil analysis is error.

ANTI-GAY PASTOR EVENT HOSTS 3 GOP NDIDAT

We are talkg the laws of man, not the Old Ttament laws of God, '" Cz then add: "Do you really believe that the US t should execute every person who is gay??

TED CZ SPARS WH PASTOR OVER UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW

"Cz also mentned another Bible verse — "let he that is whout s among you, let him first st a stone at her" — to argue that was cel and hypocril to judge others for later told Newsweek that the pot of his qutn was not to suggt that gay people should be executed but to "terme if the senator believ that when God crimalized homosexual nduct the Old Ttament that our Maker was guilty of prcribg a law horrific and grotque law.

"Cz's relign-driven pro-LGBTQ+ tweets me jt days after he unexpectedly lled new legislatn Uganda — which allows for gay people to be sentenced to ath for their sexualy — "horrific" and "wrong. Ted Cz snapped back at a Cape Coral pastor over his cricizg anti-LGBTQ+ Uganda law, tellg the church head that their "biblil analysis is error, " and askg him if he "really believe(s) that the US (Government) should execute every person who is gay? "Tom Asl, a ntroversial senr pastor at Grace Baptist Church for 37 years who offered a prayer at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's guratn earlier this year, was one of the voic loudly phg back on Cz's nmnatn of the anti-LGBTQ+ Uganda said he voted for the senator the 2016 Republin primari for cricized the harsh anti-LGBTQ measure signed last week, which impos the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy" and tablish lifetime prison sentenc for anyone who engag gay sex.

SEN. TED CZ ISSU MAJOR GAY MARRIAGE WARNG FOR PASTORS AND CHRISTIANS, ALIKE

Any law crimalizg homosexualy or imposg the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy” is grotque & an abomatn. I'd be glad to have a nversatn wh you about that, " Asl tweeted on June told The News-Prs he did not believe the ernment should be executg gay people or children and said the pot of his qutn was to terme if Cz "believ that when God crimalized homosexual nduct the Old Ttament that our Maker was guilty of prcribg a law horrific and grotque law. Last weekend Senator Ted Cz, along wh fellow GOP printial ndidat Mike Huckabee and Louisiana ernor Bobby Jdal, spoke at a nference D Mo head up by a man who advot the executn of gay people -- per his terpretatn of the bible -- and who ma his ll for mass extermatn once aga, onstage at the event, the Natnal Relig Liberti Conference.

REPUBLIN CANDIDAT ATTEND RALLY WHERE PASTOR ADVOT "DEATH PENALTY" FOR GAY PEOPLE

Pastor Kev Swanson has said the past that Christians should attend gay weddgs and hold up signs tellg the newly married gay and lbian upl that they "should be put to ath.

" He was an advote of Uganda's famo "Kill the Gays" bill, which he saw as a the nfab over the weekend, where he troduced Huckabee, Jdal and Cz to the dience -- and where Ted Cz's father, Rafael Cz, an anti-gay Tea Party csar, was a star speaker -- he reerated his ath penalty ll, addg that homosexuals should first be given some time to repent before the executns beg. There's nothg subtle about what he said, and you n watch for yourself, cludg his statements about what he would do if he were one of those parents of a gay person: There are fai, we're talkg Christian fai, pastors' fai, elrs' fai om good, godly church, " Swanson said, "whose sons are rebellg, hangg out wh homosexuals and gettg married and the parents are ved. "It really was a 'kill-the-gays' ll to arms.

This was a nference about the necsy of the ath penalty as a punishment for homosexualy. As far as I n tell, no broadst works or major Amerin newspaper vered the blood-curdlg speech which several tim Swanson said the punishment for homosexualy is the ath penalty. The Washgton Post vered the nference and the ndidat' ments, but didn't mentn the "kill the gays" speech.

TED CZ LLED UGANDA'S ANTI-GAY LAW 'HORRIFIC.' LAST YEAR, HE VOTED AGAST PROTECTG SAME SEX MARRIAG.

Ted Cz his bid for the Whe new wealth didn’t dt his mment to old-time relign—and to the culture war (read: anti-gay) polics that fed Gee W. “The Supreme Court has issued a lg regnizg homosexual marriage the Uned Stat, thereby forcg all stat to issue marriage licens to homosexual upl wh their stat, and regnize as valid homosexual marriag issued other stat, ” reads. And the church teach “[t]hat homosexualy is a ser crime—a very grievo s.

He also predicts that the gay agenda, which he says is “rooted the pths of hell, ” will lead to the elimatn of marriage as an recently, Bickle oped that January’s big blizzard on the East Coast was a punishment om God for the U. Vanr Plaats has praised Rsian Print Vladimir Put for his anti-gay polici.

He has proposed the Put-like ia that stunts should be tght homosexualy is a public threat on par wh there is Phil Robertson, the “Duck Dynasty” patriarch, who went on the mpaign trail Iowa to promote the Cz ndidacy. ” Of those policians and judg who let gay rights prevail, Robertson said, “We have to rid the Earth of them.