Pastor Gary Gordon claims legalizing
gay marriage will lead to America's downfall.
At a Tuesday rally held on the steps of
the Iowa Statehouse, Gordon of the socially conservative group
Cornerstone World Outreach, told about 500 supporters of a
constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in the state that God
will destroy America like he destroyed Rome if we ignore his
authority.
Constantine's “empire disappeared
from the face of the Earth, crushed from barbarians from the North.
If we do not quickly change our state and national attitude about
God's authority over pathetic human government and protect the virtue
of true Americanism from our own mental barbarians who attack our
minds with the God-hating secularism of Europe, we too will be
extinguished from the Earth due to close the final chapter of a once
great nation and enter the tomb of lost empires,” Gordon told the
crowd. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)
The rally was organized by Bob Vander
Plaats' socially conservative group The Family Leader. The group and
its supporters are calling on the Iowa Senate to follow the House's
lead and approve the Iowa Marriage Amendment. Democratic
Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal has blocked the measure from
reaching the Senate floor.
Also at the rally, prominent
NAACP leader Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr. called on the gay community to
stop “hijacking” the civil rights movement and former
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore claimed legalizing marriage
for gay and lesbian couples will lead to “child abuse.”