While appearing on Jerry Newcombe’s “Vocal Point” radio program last week, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer doubled down on his assertion that the prayers of anti-gay activists at the recent “I Stand Sunday” event caused God to help Republican candidates win their races for elected office in the last election.

“A good part of that evening, the pastors and the people in that congregation and all those across the country got down on their faces before God to repent of our sins, to seek God’s favor over this land because of the threat to religious liberty,” Fischer said. “And on Tuesday, we saw these resounding election results and I have to think there was a connection. When God’s people got on their faces in repentance in faith over the issue of religious liberty, how threatened it is in our land, how important it is, I think God heard those prayers and I believe he quickened the campaigns of those who are willing to stand for religious liberty and Tuesday, I think, was part of the fruit of those prayers and that repentance”: