Two of the signers to the declaration are members of Trump’s evangelical advisory board: televangelist Kenneth Copeland and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson.
Jerry Boykin, the executive vice president of the Family Research Council, also signed the pledge, as well as being one of several retired military leaders to sign a letter endorsing Trump. Another signer to the declaration of dependence is Lance Wallnau, a member of the “National Diversity Coalition for Trump.”
Colorado Springs pastor Andrew Wommack wrote the pledge and says he will spend half a million dollars – or enough to vaccinate 840,000 children against polio – promoting it online and in newspaper ads. On Sunday, his ministry ran a full page ad in The New York Times with the full text of the declaration and some of the more notable signers.
Religious right activist David Barton is also on board. He has been teaching students at a Bible college run by Wommack, the Charis Bible College in Colorado.
Right Wing Watch reports Seven Mountains theology as teaching that Christians are to take control of the seven primary institutions, or “mountains,” that shape and control our culture — (1) Business; (2) Government; (3) Media; (4) Arts and Entertainment; (5) Education; (6) Family; and (7) Religion — and use them to implement biblical standards and spread the Gospel.
Observers have noted the similarity between this declaration and the so-called Manhattan Declaration, which saw Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical leaders sign a statement saying they would hold to their convictions and faith in the face of laws they found objectionable.
In a video message about the “Declaration of Dependence on God and the Holy Bible,” Wommack claims to have felt “divinely inspired” to write the statement and warns that “Satan is fighting for the heart and soul of this nation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Since our Creator gave us these rights, we declare that no government has the right to take them away. Among these rights is the right to exercise our Christian beliefs as put forth in God’s Holy Bible.
We therefore declare that God grants life at conception and no one has the right to take that life unless it is a direct threat to the life of the mother.
Marriage was instituted by God between one man and one woman. The Lord gave only this family unit the responsibility to have children and raise them in the fear of the Lord.
We therefore respectfully reserve the right to refuse any mandate by the government that forces us to fund or support abortion. We also oppose same-sex marriage, polygamy, bestiality, and all other forms of sexual perversion prohibited by Holy Scripture.
We proclaim that Jesus has provided the cure for all sin and therefore reach out to the sinner in love, but do not embrace the sin, knowing its destructive nature.
Therefore, we, the undersigned—not only as Christians but also believing we have the constitutional rights as Americans to follow these time honored Christian beliefs—commit to conducting our churches, ministries, businesses, and personal lives in accordance with our Christian faith and choose to obey God rather than man.
Another video shows news clips about the legalization of abortion and same-sex marriage, set to ominous music and frames Christians as being under attack in America.