Theocracy watch: Courting Christian conservatives, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is expected to announce his 2016 presidential run at a prayer rally scheduled for January, 2015.

Jindal, the man who said the Republican party must “stop being the stupid party,” is going to play dumb to curry favor with the Christian base of the Republican party, and advance the dangerous cause of Christian nationalism.

Christian nationalism is the belief that America is a Christian nation, a belief connected to Dominion theology, a radical right wing movement to rewrite American history, and replace the secular values upon which this nation was founded with a Christian theocracy.

In a letter introducing the prayer rally, a letter printed on the governor’s official stationery, Jindal warns of “a new world order of chaos…being driven by militant Islam seeking to impose Sharia Law worldwide” and domestic epidemics of “fatherless homes,” “drugs and crime in our inner cities” and “a saturation of pornography, abortion, racism,” problems for which Jesus Christ “is America’s only hope” –

Jesus Christ, Son of God and the Lord of Life, is America’s only hope.

Right Wing Watch reports Jindal is following in the footsteps of Texas Gov. Rick Perry by kicking off his possible presidential campaign next month with a stadium prayer rally organized by radical religious right activists.

The virulently anti-gay, Christian nationalist American Family Association, influential Religious Right leader David Lane, and Doug Stringer, a self-proclaimed “apostle” from Texas who has blamed America’s rejection of God for the September 11 attacks, are spearheading Jindal’s Baton Rouge rally.

Material released to promote Jindal’s prayer rally blames gays, abortion, and porn for Hurricane Katrina.

Right Wing Watch notes Jindal’s prayer rally appears to be so closely modeled after Rick Perry’s that its organizers are even reusing materials from the 2011 Texas event, including a prayer guide contending that natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, were the result of God’s displeasure with the “alternative lifestyle” of homosexuality, marriage equality, legal abortion, and Internet pornography.

Jindal deliberately subverts the U.S. Constitution and the secular values upon which this nation was founded to pander to conservative Christians. And clearly he has given up on the notion that the Republican party must stop being the “stupid party.”

Earlier this year, Stephen Colbert mocked Jindal for pandering to ignorant conservative voters by dodging questions on evolution.

Bottom line: Any man or woman who claims Jesus Christ is America’s only hope is unfit for the highest office in the land. In America, Jesus is optional.