David Lane is a Christian nationalist political operative who has spent decades organizing conservative pastors to promote right-wing politics and politicians. He once urged conservative Christians to prepare for martyrdom in their fight to “save the nation from the pagan onslaught” of marriage equality and legal abortion. He preaches that the U.S. has a divine mission to glorify God and advance the Christian faith. He called the separation of church and state a “lie” and a “fabricated whopper” designed to stop “Christian America—the moral majority—from imposing moral government on pagan public schools, pagan higher learning and pagan media.” He argued that Christianity must “eradicate” secularism. He once complained that there was “not a peep from the Christian Church” in response to the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, when the church “should have initiated riots, revolution, and repentance.” Lane has close ties to Republican officials; Donald Trump attended one of Lane's events as a 2016 presidential candidate.
