James Randy Forbes is the U.S. Representative for Virginia’s4th congressional district, and another legendary wingnut madman in Congress. Forbesis a self-appointed general of the culture wars and founder of what he callsthe “Push Back Team” (well, it’s really a fundraising team) and theCongressional Prayer Caucus, the purpose of which is to encourage prayerthrough legislation (and which has, interestingly, madeconsiderable efforts to infiltrate the Science Committee).He is, rather obviously, opposed to laws banning collective prayer led byschool officials, and has recently proposed (for the at least a few thousandthtime) officially designating theUnited States as a Judeo-Christian nation (rebuttedhere)and obtaining anofficial declaration that “the Holy Bible is God’s Word”.

He has also relatively recently proposed that the Stateshould officially declare that religion is a prerequisite for freedom, reject“the notion that the laws and Constitution of the United States require theexclusion of God from matters of government,” and declare that religion forms“the inseparable foundation for America’s representative processes, legalsystems, and societal structures.” No, he doesn’t understand “freedom”, nor thehistory and origin of the ideas behind the American Consistution, and hasprecisely the view of which issues are the real and important ones for hiscountry (yes, he has on several occasions led fellow fundamentalists incampaigns to solve all the nation’s problems by – you guessed it –prayer that you’d expect from a crazy village idiot in the Bible Belt. “Only thesupernatural hand of God can save America,”says Forbes,though it is unclear from what (and do note how well the claim explains Forbes's views and willingness to take action on political issues). Another example ishere (some half-truths and irrelevancies are documentedhere).You can probably guess whathe thinks about those who disagree with the effortsof his Prayer Caucus (yup, they are opposed to the First Amendment – indeed, America itself is onthe verge of rejecting God, and thereby the rights encoded in the Constitution,the way Forbes sees it).

In 2011 heintroduced his resolution for an annual spiritualheritage week.Nothing unusual for Forbes, of course, who seems to be doing little else. Theinteresting thing about the resolution, containing as it does a litany ofChristian nationalist historical revisionism, is that it is picked pretty muchstraight out ofDavid Barton (a close ally)– it contains the same kind of lies, misrepresentations, quote-minings, and revisionism(somehere).And the really scary thing, of course, is how much influence Barton clearly hasover Congress.

As for DADT, Forbes decided to team up with insane TalibansycophantHarry Jackson to pray, and to attempt to have their bigotry codified into law (Harry Jacksontried the“Martin Luther King would oppose Marriage Equality,” for good measure).It’snot his first attempt to thwart the insidious conspiracies of the LGBTmovement,which is, of course, the second most important battle with respect to saving the future of America, after imposing religion through law.

There is a fine Forbes resourcehere.