You might think that a politician caught on tape overtly blurring the lines between church and state — not in a "I'm a religious person and I bring those values to work with me" sort of way, but more like "if the government doesn't reflect my specific theology, then it is EVIL" — would step back from the limelight and let things cool off a bit before shoving themselves back into the public eye. That would, under most circumstances, for most people, be the prudent thing to do. But then again, North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn isn't most people.
Just days after he was filmed insisting that he doesn't have "an overwhelming sense of darkness as if the devil has complete dominion of that area, because I feel a spiritual battle going on on Capitol Hill," Cawthorn has taken the audio from his recent speech at the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Salt & Light Conference" and turned it into a hokey, melodramatic campaign ad, complete with generically "rousing" music and random shots of the Washington Monument, the Capitol Building, and a big ol' cross.
