Jim Domen, a far right California pastor, says that his political organizing network (Church United) has more than 2500 California pastors, that about 500 of them speak Spanish, and that he’s expanded nationally. Yes, they seek to take over public schools. 1/
Author and journalist Katherine Stewart warned about Church United founder Jim Domen in 2018. Back then, Church United had about 500 California pastors. As shown in post 1, Domen now claims to have more than 2500. 2/ nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opi…
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3/ Here, far right California pastor Jim Domen says that CA pastor Tim Thompson is part of Domen’s Church United. (He doesn’t mention that Thompson wears a III%ers patch.) Domen also says that DC politicians agree to meet w/ Church United bc they know that pastors = votes.
4/ This is pastor Tim Thompson, who belongs to Domen’s Church United network. I don’t know if Thompson represents the III%ers but he wears a III%ers patch.
5/ Related thread. Pastor Tim Thompson had backed this guy.
7/ I’ve posted about the Family Research Council a lot lately.
10/ In this interview with pastor Tim Thompson, pastor Jim Domen claims that same sex attraction is not a sin, but acting out on it is a sin. (He also claims to have left the homosexual “lifestyle” himself.)
11/ Here’s the part where he talks about leaving the “homosexual lifestyle.” Audience applauds. He’s now married to a woman and they have kids.
12/ Joe Pedick is another pastor in the Church United network. Image
13/ Four days after Jan 6, “Joe Pedick, pastor of Calvary Chapel of the Harbour in Huntington Beach” told his congregation that he’d “been assured by trusted sources that ‘a lot of things’ wld happen b4 Joe Biden was sworn in as president…” 8/23/21 ocregister.com/2021/08/22/som…
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14/ More on pastor Joe Pedick. calmatters.org/politics/2023/…
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15/ OC = Orange County, California. I’m not sure that Pedick is a “cult leader.” But these are interesting and frightening associations.
16/ Backup. Image
18/ “Speaker, Mike Johnson … was surrounded by Church United [Jim Domen] Pastors praying for him earlier this year.” 10/25/23 air1.com/news/us-and-wo…
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