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Kyle Mantyla at People For The American Way's RWW:

When a group of religious-right activists and Christian nationalists were invited to the White House to pray over President Donald Trump at in the Oval Office last month, they also sat down for a meeting with faith adviser Paula White and members of the White House Faith Office. Among the topics discussed at the meeting, according to former Trump administration official and an ardent Christian nationalist William Wolfe, was conservative Christians' desire to see Trump carry out mass deportations.  Trump-loving right-wing pastor Jim Garlow was among those, along with Wolfe, who were invited to meet Trump and attend the meeting with Trump's faith advisers, but he does not seem to share Wolfe's desire to see mass deportations, at least if they involve Christians.  On Sunday's episode of his "World Prayer Network" podcast, Garlow brought on immigration attorney Esther Valdes Clayton to sound the alarm over the prospect that tens of thousands of Latino Christians could be forcibly deported from the United States because of the Trump administration's policies.  Valdes Clayton opened her remarks by working to reassure Garlow's conservative audience that these Latinos share their values. "I just want to reassure everybody ... that Latinos love God," she said. "We have the same God. We have a monotheistic religion. Our tradition, our values; 97% of Latinos go to church. We believe in a male and female. No transgender. Our language is gendered. Everything ends in an O and an A, meaning that everything is masculine and feminine, and we go to church regularly." "Right now, we're experiencing a number of executive orders that are affecting the Latino church primarily," Valdes Clayton continued. "Why? Because the bulk of a lot of the congregations are filled with people who enter here either unlawfully or legally and their permission to stay here is expired." Valdes Clayton warned that "approximately 10 million Christians may be subject to mass deportations," which she said will have "huge ramifications" for churches all over the country.  "Up to 32,000 [pastors] may be deported unless the Trump administration does something urgently," she added, explaining that these people came to the United States legally on religious worker visas but have been unable to apply for permanent residency because of backlogs in the immigration system.  As such, Valdes Clayton said, "their visa expires [and] they can no longer stay in the United States" because of Trump's executive orders. 

Heading into the 2012 election, right-wing pastor Jim Garlow warned that if then-President Barack Obama was reelected, the United States would be “unsalvageable.”

We have about ten months left to save this nation. It’s not that the nation will cease to exist after November, it’s just that the die will have been cast in such a way that we will never, ever be able to reclaim that which we once had. Whether it be in the arena of reclaiming safety for the womb, the definition of marriage, or of the economic fact that we’re $15 trillion in the hole now and $110 trillion in unfunded liabilities – this is a nation that will be decimated, it will be unsalvageable after November if we cannot get it turned. Even with the strongest leadership that we might be able to elect it is still going to be a very hard task because of how far down we have fallen both morally and economically as it relates to biblical understanding.

As the election neared, Garlow’s warnings became even more dire, asserting that Obama’s reelection would mean that “America as we have known her will be forever gone.”

We have 61 days of America left. If we do not turn at this point, America as we have known her will be forever gone. It is crisic that people vote, that they activate, that they become informed and they influence every other people they can regardless of how unreceptive people might be to them announcing where they stand on the issues. It is time for us to be unbelievably bold.

Despite those warnings, the nation somehow managed to survive, prompting Garlow to declare prior to the 2016 election that “we have a limited time for resuscitation.” Presumably, the election of former President Donald Trump temporarily rescued the nation, but the mortal danger remained. As such, just before the 2020 election, Garlow, a die-hard Trump supporter, frantically proclaimed that “you are about to lose your country” if Joe Biden became president.

With another election just over the horizon, Garlow is once again prophesying doom, using his Sunday night World Prayer Network livesteam to predict that if voters don’t elect candidates committed to “biblical governance,” then “this will be the last election we would ever have.”

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San Diego Megachurch Pastor Jim Garlow Remarries; Condemns President Obama’s Legacy

Jim Garlow and Rosemary Schindler

San Diego evangelical minister, James L. Garlow, says if history books are not distorted by today’s revisionistic tendencies, President Obama’s legacy should be that he’s responsible for “morally and economically destroying a wonderful experiment called America.”

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