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So much for church and state separation!
‘My First
Calling Is to My Savior’: Pompeo Brags He Is Using Role
of Secretary of State to Evangelize World Leaders
By David Badash
April 24, 2020
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Clearing House"
- U.S. Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo is not only admitting, but bragging that he is
using his official government role to evangelize world
leaders, apparently hoping to bring them to Jesus
Christ.
Pompeo is
widely known for “brazenly inserting his evangelical
Christian beliefs into discussions of foreign policy,”
as The New York Times reported in
earlier editions of
this 2019 article. But
it was not known until now that he has been ignoring the
Constitution’s critical tenet of separation of church
and state to preach the gospel to foreign leaders while
on the taxpayers’ dime.
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Secretary
Pompeo spoke on a conference call for conservative
Christian clergy, hosted by the anti-LGBTQ hate group
Family Research Council last Thursday, and “told FRC’s
pastors that he has used his official travels as an
opportunity to evangelize,”
according to Right Wing Watch’s Peter Montgomery.
“I’ve been
unabashed in my role as Secretary of State to talk about
the fact that I swore an oath to the Constitution, but
that my first calling is to my Savior,” Pompeo told the
conservative Christian pastors. “And I’ve made that
something that I tell world leaders, whether I’m with
President Sisi in Egypt or whomever, whatever faith they
may be of or of no faith.”
He appeared to
admit some world leaders were not pleased by his
overtures, saying: “we’ve watched some of us be called
out for that, to think that, to say that we don’t care
about science, that we don’t care about the rule of law,
all the things that I know we all care so deeply about.”
Pompeo appeared
also to try to gain favor with the pastors and the
Family Research Council’s president, Tony Perkins.
“My
relationship with pastors across America, with Tony and
all of you, reminds me of the important reason that I
believe the Lord put me in this place to have this
opportunity to make religious freedom such an important
part of what this administration is doing.”
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