The National Association of Christian Lawmakers is a collection of right-wing state and federal legislators and religious-right activists dedicated to electing “godly leaders in our nation at every level” for the purpose of seeing its “biblical worldview spread across the nation.”
The NACL was founded by unabashed Christian nationalist and former Arkansas state senator Jason Rapert, who is quite open about his intention to do everything that he can to ensure that Christians who share his far-right worldview “take authority” over every aspect of this nation.
Last week, the NACL held its annual conference at Liberty University, during which Rapert embracedthe Christian nationalist label and got choked up at the thought of one day soon seeing a NACL member sworn in as president of the United States.
Rapert’s assertion that nearly every book in the Bible was “either written by a politician, to a politician, or about a politician” provides a telling example about how Christian nationalists conflate spiritual leadership with political leadership as justification for their effort to create a modern nation that functions entirely according to their particular religious worldview.