Akin Joins FRC 'PrayerCast' To Ask For God's Help In Defeating Health Care Bills

Rep. Todd Akin contributed to a Family Research Council Action PAC "prayercast" last night, an webcast to pray for God's intercession in stopping health care legislation in the Senate. Ses. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) also participated.  FRC described the event like this:

During the Webcast, you will hear the latest on the threats to the God-given right to human life through government funding of abortions, our health from rationing, our family finances from higher taxes, and our general freedom posed by the government plan to take over health care.

We will enter into a time of prayer for the nation, and our leaders. Your engagement and prayer is more critical than ever as Congress will very soon vote on a final health care bill.

Akin, as he did in his pre-Thanksgiving lecture on the House floor, invoked the Pilgrims to justify his opposition to socialism (i.e., the House and Senate health care bills). 

AKIN: One of the things we can learn from the Pilgrims – and their understanding of Christianity was somewhat different from our own – is that they really did believe that the Bible was a blueprint for all of mankind.  A blueprint to show how just not how to pray or how to love our wife or our family, but a blueprint to tell us about economics, to tell us about education, to tell us about government.

And because they believed that the Bible was a blueprint, they came up with innovations that were marvelous for America's future. They had quite a variety of understanding of how to apply different practical things from scripture.

In fact, Governor Bradford, as he pitched socialism overboard said, "As though men were wiser than God," he writes these things in his diary in 1620s.  We could learn from the Pilgrims by understanding that the Bible is not just a book about how to be nice to people – it is a blueprint for the way entire civilization can be structured.

RightWingWatch has clipped Akin's remarks:

Watch the full webcast here – Akin appears at the 49:40 mark.