At a recent Stand up for America Rally on Halifax Mall in Raleigh, an estimated 5,000 people clapped, cheered and even let out a “holy roar” to back Biblical values and support leaders who hold them dear, not the least of whom is Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, one of the main speakers at the event.
In presenting Robinson with Return America’s Patriot Award, Baity called the lieutenant governor a “true Christian statesman” who exhibits the highest degree of leadership and lifts up his voice for God and righteousness.
More than a political rally, Friday’s event called on attendees to celebrate and stand up for “fundamental facts,” including the first and second amendments to the Constitution, true American history, the flag, the biblically defined family and the unborn.
David Gibbs, founder of the Christian Law Association, challenged the crowd to embrace the fiery trials our nation is facing as an opportunity to live out their faith. “This is the time when God’s people can make an unbelievable and distinctive difference,” Gibbs said, urging the crowd to commit to prayer, to witnessing and to standing firm against evil
Chiding people who can watch Fox News for hours on end, but have never in their lives prayed for a solid hour, Gibbs told the crowd that the nation’s founding fathers both prayed and fasted before meeting together to consider declaring their fledgling nation’s independence from Great Britain. Using the very scripture shared at the First Continental Congress, Gibbs asked the crowd to do as the writer of Psalm 35 instructs in verse 27 and “shout for joy and be glad.”
Rev. Baity, who pastors Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, thanked Gibbs for his work defending the rights of Christians. The Christian Law Association represented Berean and People’s Baptist Church in Greenville in their suit against Gov. Roy Cooper’s bans on church services during the pandemic. The judge ruled in favor of the churches based on the freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment.
Moving on to the Second Amendment, Allen Barker, an evangelist from Amazing Grace Baptist in Mt. Airy, took to the podium to point out the false logic inherent in many gun control efforts. “If you are going to solve the problem, you have to deal with the problem, and guns are not the problem,” Barker said. “A gun by itself has never harmed anyone. The problem is people. The problem is the heart of man.
Charged with inspiring the rally crowd to stand up for the family, Matt Morrison, pastor of Gospel Light Baptist in Walkertown, read from Genesis 2 about God’s creation of marriage. Morrison offered thanks to lawmakers who stand up for marriage as the union of one biological male and one biological female. And for those who do not, he issued a warning: Keep your hands off the home. “As goes the homes of the nation, so goes the nation,” Morrison said.
His speech was followed by Kevin Broyhill’s appeal for sanctity of life. The pastor of Calvary Baptist in King, Broyhill said that since life begins at conception, “taking a human life inside the womb is no different than taking it outside the womb; it is murder. When a society devalues God, the giver of life, it will devalue the life that is given.”