A North Texas megachurch pastor mixed politics with religion after unveiling a list of endorsed church candidates in local elections during a Sunday service on May 1, according to NBC News reporter Mike Hixenbaugh. Hixenbaugh tweeted a video of Gateway Church senior pastor Robert Morris asking his congregates to take a picture of the screen he showed of candidates who are church members running in the Saturday, May 7 election. The ballad includes city council and school board races across North Texas.
Morris stressed to the crowd about the school books that are in campus libraries, saying they are as “pornographic as anything you ever read.” He gave an example of an upset parent reading a book to school board members, sharing how he felt like the excerpt she read was straight-up “a sex scene as much as you ever heard it.”
With a week to go until election day, a megachurch pastor in Southlake, Texas, warns congregants that area schools are allowing porn in libraries — then shows a slide of school board candidates who attend Christian churches (who also happen to be running on anti-CRT platforms). pic.twitter.com/BYGTNcV5vC— Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) May 1, 2022
“There is pornographic literature – are y’all hearing me? You don’t sound like you’re hearing me, and it’s making me upset at you for not hearing this,” Morris said while interpreting himself during his sermon. “It is pornographic in our schools…we need to vote.”
All of the candidates the church unofficially endorsed are running on anti-Critical Race Theory platforms. Critical Race Theory has become a fixture in the fierce U.S. debate over how to teach children about the country’s history and race relations.
In the North Texas area, the subject has especially been highlighted due to Carroll Independent School District in Southlake. In October, Gina Peddy, the school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, was secretly recorded saying their teachers should have an opposing book regarding the Holocaust.
The U.S. Department of Education also opened three investigations into allegations of racial and gender discrimination at the school district in November.
