In another article, Robert Parham chides these leaders for calling their plot a "prayer meeting."
30 years ago, James Robison convened a meeting like this and the result was the election of Ronald Reagan as president.
30 years ago Mike Huckabee quit seminary to assist Robison and his coterie of conservative clergy in their efforts. Later, he parlayed his connections to become governor of Arkansas. Now, Mike Huckabee is running for President of the United States.
For the past two years Huckabee has been courting the far out religious conservatives who think democracy is heresy and want an American theocracy. Some of those at Robison's recent meeting in Dallas are undoubtedly in that camp. Most of them, however, are simple Christian Nationalists who are opposed to the first amendment's disestablishment clause and want to impose conservative Christian morality on all society by force of law. The latter group appears more moderate to the public and has a larger audience within the conservative Christian community.
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At the Texas Resotration Project Huckabee stated David Barton was the greatest historian of our generation. This "greatest historian" then told the audience that if we read from the Book of Romans from the pulpit we could now be arrested by the government. A person from the Texas Freedom Netword and myself were present when this was stated. Over 1,000 ministers and wives were in the audience and all seemed to accept this as true.
I'm fairly confident that at one time Huckabee knew better than to believe that Barton has any claim to being a historian.
There were some genuine historians at Southwestern Seminary when he was there and none of them would concur with Barton's Christian Nationalist mythicism.
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