Everyone’s aware that Sam Brownback is conservative, Catholic, anti-choice, and not planning on voting for health care reform.
But there’s a big difference between being anti-choice and calling for martyrdom. Sam Brownback spent seven months living in a condo with Lou Engle, a preacher who’s said all gays are possessed by demons (and lives in the Kansas City area). Talk2Action breaks the story about this living arrangement, quoting a speech Lou Engle gave in 2006, at a church in Boston:
“In fact, it was prophesized to me that I would be connected with a man named Senator Sam Brownback from Kansas. But I forgot about the prophecy, so when I rented a condo in DC to mobilize for TheCall, a week later I received a phone call from the owner of the condo and he said ‘There’s a man named Senator Sam Brownback. His condo just burnt down. He wants to know if he could stay in your condo’. I became the roommate of Senator Brownback for seven months. We began to get dreams he would be the president of the United States.”
Lou Engle isn’t quite as well known as some of the older guard of the religious right, but he’s been very active. Leading a group called TheCall, he holds massive revival gatherings across the country. There was one held in Kansas City a few years ago (and associated with local IHOP church, which Engle works for). This man thinks he’s beyond divine – he claims that he spits it’s holy water. He put out a ringtone of his voice proclaiming abortion is evil on his website. His son went to San Francisco to cast “demon spirits” out of gays. He was in the documentary “Jesus Camp” a few years ago, scaring young children about abortion (with plastic fetuses that were scientifically inaccurate). He was in the “prayercast” a few weeks ago. This man is hardline.
And by the way, Brownback, seven months is not a temporary arrangement. You’re a senator in DC. You have staff. You could have found a new condo. Apparently sitting across the breakfast table from someone who encourages young people to martyr themselves is not something that bothers you. But it does bother Kansans.
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