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MAGA Pastor and GOP Congressional Candidate Mark Burns Declares That All Laws 'Contrary to God's Word' Must Be Overturned

Pastor Mark Burns speaking at a rally for Donald Trump in 2016.
Pastor Mark Burns speaking at a rally for Donald Trump in 2016. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Mark Burns, a MAGA pastor who is running for Congress(link is external) in South Carolina, is an unabashed Christian nationalist(link is external) who openly declares(link is external) that "any policy that is contrary to the word of God" needs to be made illegal.

Burns appeared on(link is external) the Real America's Voice program "The Water Cooler" Monday, where he proclaimed that "the gospel of Jesus Christ should be [at] the center of American politics." When asked by host David Brody what he meant by that, Burns declared that "any law that is against the word of God" must be overturned.

"Laws that are contrary to God's word that are actively legal or laws today need to be overturned," Burns said(link is external). "Any law that is against the word of God, that is clearly against what God has said in his word—in a nation that is a Christian nation, a nation that has the majority of citizens who actively believe that Jesus is the Messiah, that he is coming back again with omnipotent power in his hands—if it's against the word of God and it's actively a law today, then it should be overturned. We should have a moral compass, and right now in America, we're losing that moral compass. The liberal left is slowly [chipping] away."

Burns was a proponent of the movement to keep former President Donald Trump in power. He has made numerous calls for war(link is external), including on the eve of the Capitol insurrection when he riled up Trump loyalists at a Stop the Steal rally by telling them(link is external), “We’re ready to do war!”