Former pastor and The Call founder Lou
Engle told televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday that prayer had
defeated Gavin Newsom's “homosexual agenda” in California, media
watchdog RightWingWatch.org
reported.
Appearing on The 700 Club,
Robertson asked Garlow for an example of the power of prayer.
“Tell me one example where prayer
that you know of – I know many – changed things in a nation,”
Robertson said to his guest.
“I look at my own story and my prayer
history in California, on a forty day season of fasting and prayer,
God spoke to me that I needed to contend with those heavenly powers
through humility and fasting,” Garlow answered. “We believe, two
stadium gatherings, a forty day fast across California, the governor
of California, right after The Call in Sacramento, was removed from
office, also put me in front of Gavin Newsom in a sovereign
appointment to call him to accountability to what he was going to do
in that city concerning the homosexual agenda. It's actually changed
so much, in my life and with the journey that I'm in, let alone many,
many, stories of prayer changing history.” (The video is embedded
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Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco,
enthusiastically endorsed marriage equality as opponents in 2008
mounted Proposition 8, California's gay marriage.
Garlow's The Call prayed for passage of
Proposition 8.