Last week, Mark Meckler, the co-founder and president of the Convention of States Foundation which seeks to get state legislatures to call for an Article V convention to propose constitutional amendments that will dramatically limit the power of the federal government, was among the panelists that appeared at a "FlashPoint Live" event in Boise, Idaho.
Meckler is a Christian nationalist political activist and right-wing commentator who brags about being "a radical, right-wing, Tea Party, Bible-thumping, gun-toting conservative" and praises President Donald Trump for supposedly having rescued the word "retard" from the woke thought police. As such, it was no surprise to hear him tell the gathering of Christian nationalists that they "need to be a lot more intolerant."
Complaining that Christian churches have "traded righteousness and truth for empathy and tolerance," Meckler declared that the only hope for saving America is for Christians "to become a lot less tolerant."
"We are way too tolerant as a people and a nation," Meckler declared to applause. "There's biblical precedent for that. They didn't tolerate this kind of behavior in ancient Israel. They didn't tolerate it in Jesus's time. Jesus was very direct about this kind of stuff. We teach this incredibly nice, sanitized version, I would say an effeminized version, of Jesus. This is a man who made a cat o' 'nine tails and went in to kick the tables over and screamed at people and called them vipers for sinning, for doing terrible things against the law of God."
"We don't do that as a nation anymore," he continued. "Instead what we do is like, 'Oh, if the Boy Scouts are going gay, that's their problem. Maybe I'll pull my kids out, but I'm worried about pulling my kids out because maybe people will think I'm intolerant.' No, we need to be a lot more intolerant. If you look at the history of the United States of America and you look at the founding of this country—I'm not suggesting we should do this—but back at the founding of this country before we were a nation, most states, colonies back then, had laws that required you to be in church on Sunday. They were not tolerant of non-believers. And so this idea that we should just accept everybody and everything, that's a modern idea, it comes from Satan and it is destroying our country."
