Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal to prayer rally: US needs 'spiritual revival'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal to prayer rally: US needs 'spiritual revival'

Lauren Gambino in New York
theguardian.com, Saturday 24 January 2015 22.49 GMT

Speaking to thousands of Christians gathered at an all-day prayer rally in Louisiana on Saturday, Governor Bobby Jindal said his own religious awakening was inspired by a bible-thumping best friend, a death in the family and a crush on a pretty girl who said she wanted to become a supreme court justice in order to overturn Roe v Wade.

It was Jindal’s second appearance at the rally, which was hosted at the Louisiana State University basketball arena by the American Family Association (AFA), which due to its stances on homosexuality and non-Christian faiths is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The two-term Republican governor had earlier opened what was billed as a “global prayer gathering for a nation in crisis”.

In a 15-minute speech Jindal, a prospective candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, said: “We can’t just elect a candidate to fix what ails our country. We can’t just pass a law to fix what ails our country. We need a spiritual revival to fix what ails our country.”

Jindal, who was raised by Hindu parents, described his conversion to Catholicism in high school, though the self-described “evangelical Catholic” did not reference his denomination as he spoke to the crowd of mostly evangelical Protestants.

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[HockeyMom]

1. 12 years of Catholic School 50 years ago

Over. Done with. NO MORE. Can I hear an AMEN????

[TlalocW]

2. It's a smart move making a play for the religious conservative wing (majority) of the GOP voter base

But, I'm sorry, Bobster. There's no way in hell they're not going to support a white guy and side with you. They really want it to be the WHITE House again.

TlalocW

[sakabatou]

3. So he's calling for a theocracy.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Christian dominionism

The New Apostolic Reformation theology movement

[blkmusclmachine]

5. https://thatsmyphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/7-mountains.jpg

[MisterP]

6. it's like everyone said under Dubya: just because people scream "Christ, you're stupid!" in private

meetings doesn't mean we're in the middle of any revival

or is this like Huey Long telling south Louisianans he was Catholic and then turned Baptist north of NOLA?

[Jeneral2885]

7. Beware of false

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prophets.

That's all I will say.

Meanwhile, Europeans should impose a trade embargo or sanctions against Louisiana.

[Thor_MN]

8. Piyush, Piyush, Piyush... The religious right alone are not enough.

You need the racists and haters in general too. Granted they are not mutually exclusive groups, lots of overlap, but courting just the talibornagain isn't going to get you anywhere near the clown bus.