Tuesday, September 29, 2015

No, 100,000 People Did Not Gather In Peru To Support Kim Davis. Here’s Proof.


http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/09/28/3706199/kim-davis-prayer-rally-peru/


Embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was no doubt the guest of honor at this year’s Values Voter Summit, with the hosting Family Research Council awarding her a “Cost of Discipleship Award.” Mat Staver, chairman of the Liberty Counsel, which legally represents her, praised her courage and claimed that 100,000 people had attended a prayer rally to support her in Peru.
Staver posted the following image at the summit to support his claim:
The image seems to have first been tweeted the day before the summit by Matt Barber, also formerly of the Liberty Counsel, who claimed, “Christians in Peru had a prayer rally for #KimDavis & American Christians. over 100K showed up. Amazing!” Staver posted the image a second time on Sunday, claiming that Peruvian Congressman Julio Rosas was responsible for organizing it.
There is not a single news story about a prayer rally taking place in Peru for Kim Davis. There is not a single post on Rosas’ Twitter or Facebook about such a rally, though he did send one tweet of support for Staver’s defense of Davis. And the image is almost certainly from a prayer rally known as “Jesús Te Ama Y Te Cambia” (“Jesus Loves You And Changes You”), which did take place in Peru — over five days in May, 2014.
Internet sleuths, including Twitter user @DCHomos, quickly identified the stadium as the Estadio Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos at the National University of San Marcos. Then, a number of videos seemed to quickly confirm that the image shared by Staver and Barber was from the 2014 convention organized by the pentecostal Movimiento Misionero Mundial (Worldwide Missionary Movement).
It may well be true, as Barber claimed in his tweets, that attendees of Jesús Te Ama Y Te Cambia prayed for American Christians writ large, but at that point in time, nobody knew who Kim Davis was. The event almost certainly didn’t happen over the past few months, and did not happen specifically to support Davis.
using Jesus to promote bigotry and intolerance not a good idea when judgement day comes they gonna have some splainin to do.  it takes a klan like evangelicals to usurp religion for their own purposes wonder how the base will see or refuse to see this blatant lie and deception of support for a bigot in Jesus's name even going so far as to refer to her as a baby JESUS at another rally that is blasphemy and nullifies her claims to holier than thou.


Now that Kim Davis is a full-fledged Republican, the Values Voters crazy folks are hailing her as the new female Jesus, thanks to Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver.