On a “Believer’s Voice of Victory” episode scheduled to air on Thursday, right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton told televangelist Kenneth Copeland that no government can ever legalize same-sex marriage because “we have an inalienable right to marriage to be a man and a woman and no other combination.”

Barton said that the institution of marriage was created by God long before government ever existed, and therefore “government can’t get over into God’s jurisdiction.”

“Whatever God did in Genesis 1-8, government will protect but it cannot redefine, it cannot change,” he said: