Separation of church and state? Members of congress meet with pastors to drive Satan out of “the halls of legislation.”

Right Wing Watch reports dozens of members of congress met with conservative Christian pastors to drive Satan out of power in the capitol last week.

Conservative pastors and members of congress gathered on Capitol Hill last week for a “Congressional-Clergy Town Hall.” Pseudo-historian David Barton of WallBuilders and anti-LGBT pastor Jim Garlow of the Jefferson Gathering were featured speakers at the prayer event.

Adding insult to injury, at one point participants were even given access to the U.S. Senate chamber to practice their creepy Christian rituals.

Two of the pastors who participated in the event, Dave Kistler of the North Carolina Pastors Network and Dale Walker of the Tennessee Pastors Network, discussed their experiences on the American Pastors Network’s “Stand in the Gap” radio program last Friday.

Kistler revealed that U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black preached to participants and reportedly prophesied that a revival is about to sweep America and “it will commence … in the halls of Congress.”

At one point in the program Walker declared:

If God rules in the halls of legislation, it’s the pulpit’s benefit of being there, being on site and standing up and speaking the law of God to our elected leaders and praying for them. It’s been the absence of the pulpits is the reason why Satan has ruled in the halls of legislation.

Kistler also revealed that in addition to praying in the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Capitol, pastors were given access to the U.S. Senate chamber by Rep. Louie Gohmert.

Describing the experience in the senate chamber, Kistler said:

… we got on our knees … and it sounded almost like a labor room as people were crying out to God for the revival that Chaplain Black believes is coming and that we believe is coming.

Kistler continued:

To do that in the Senate chamber was an absolutely astounding opportunity, and again it puts an exclamation point on the Senate chaplain’s assessment that revival is on the way and may indeed begin in the halls of Congress.

Bottom line: Apparently it is legal for members of congress to participate in a de facto exorcism to drive Satan out of “the halls of legislation.” However, it is disappointing; it is creepy; and it is embarrassing.

(H/T Right Wing Watch)