Pastor Kevin Swanson over the weekend
hosted an event near Cincinnati where he said that he was surprised
that God had not “judged” America over gay rights and legal
abortion.
Swanson last year hosted three
Republican presidential candidates at a conference in Iowa, including
Texas Senator Ted Cruz, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and
former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, where he told the crowd that
gays
need time to repent before being put to death.
Swanson told Saturday's crowd that
judgment might come 120 years – the time it took Noah to build his
ark – after two Supreme Court rulings, Roe v. Wade and
Obergefell v. Hodges, which found that gay and lesbian couples
have a constitutional right to marry. Swanson called Obergefell
one of the “most radical, arrogant insults against Almighty
God.”
“It’s amazing that God has not
judged America in 1973,” Swanson
said. “Hard to believe that God didn’t judge America in 2001
[sic] with the Lawrence v. Texas decision. It’s hard to
believe that God didn’t judge America with Obergefell.”
“It is amazing that God has not
brought judgment upon this world shortly after [the Obergefell
decision] happened in July [sic] of 2015, or in August of 2015, or
even in September of 2015, or maybe even October,” he added.
“So be assured, my friends, judgment
is coming. I have no idea when it will come. Will it be 120 years
from 1900? Will it be 120 years from 1890? Will it be 120 years from
1973, Roe v. Wade, the decision to eliminate hundreds of
millions of babies in America and of course all around the world,
same thing has happened since the 1960s? Will it be 120 years from
2015, the day on which the most powerful court in the world ruled
against God’s institution of marriage in one of the most radical,
arrogant insults against Almighty God? When will God’s judgment
come? I have no idea, but I will tell you, it will come,” he added.