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Former Fox News Chanel host stresses importance of November's election
Conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck delivers his talk, "America's Return to Her Moral and Fiscal Foundations," at the Skyline Church La Mesa. — Howard Lipin
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Commentator Glenn Beck cast the upcoming presidential election as a crucial turning point in the nation’s history, saying Sunday in Rancho San Diego that the country will return to the right course or be lost forever.
Conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck delivers his talk, "America's Return to Her Moral and Fiscal Foundations," at the Skyline Church La Mesa.
Televangelist, Pastor James Robison, left, and conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck enjoy a light-hearted moment during their appearance at the Skyline Church La Mesa. — Howard Lipin
“We either go back into the right direction, and that’s not the George Bush years, that’s the George Washington years,” Beck told nearly 2,000 people at Skyline Church. “Or we go and fundamentally complete the transformation.”
Many have been reading about such a moment in the scriptures for centuries, but the exciting time is now, said Beck, who describes himself as a recovering alcoholic Mormon.
“We are the team,” he said. “We are the ones to prepare the way of the Lord.”
On the verge of tears, the former Fox News Channel host described a prayer in which he asked for help to love people he wants to hate. “You will find yourself one day actually feeling bad for them because they are so miserable inside and you will actually weep for them,” he said.
“Prepare yourself. Put on the full armor of God. Because the battle is already raging and it is time for the servants of the Lord — of all faiths — to stand together and stand ready to love and do exactly what he tells us to do because, in the end, we win. We win.”
Beck rose to prominence with his emotional, stream-of-consciousness invectives aimed at the left and President Barack Obama. But it was these kinds of warnings that drove him off of the cable airwaves, said the Rev. James Robison, a televangelist and founder of Life Outreach International.
“The primary reason that he left is because they were not comfortable with him talking about God and Jesus as often and as freely as he did,” said Robison, who participated in Beck’s presentation.
On the day he decided to leave, Beck said he walked up to a floor-to-ceiling window in his New York apartment and asked his wife, “How could this possibly be God’s plan?”
“As I stood there, the Lord whispered to me, ‘If you do not leave now, you will lose your soul,’” Beck said. “It was the easiest decision I’ve ever made.”
Although Beck has largely receded from the mainstream, he remains an influential figure with more than 10 million weekly radio listeners.
The multimedia entrepreneur leads Mercury One, a nonprofit funded through his American-made clothing line 1791; “Named thoughtfully for the year the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution by our Founding Fathers,” according to the website.
Beck went on to launch GBTV, a web-based television channel with more than 300,000 paying subscribers that some expect could generate more than $100 million in annual revenue.
Recently, he caused a stir after posting pictures of himself sitting in a replica of the Oval Office. The weekly series of speeches for GBTV opened with a five-minute address that centered on rejecting government.
In another nod to his versatility, Beck is a touring comedian with a stand-up act. He performed Saturday at Copley Symphony Hall.
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Controversy seems to never be far behind. In 2010, his Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial caused a stir because it was planned for the 47th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s pivotal “I Have a Dream” speech.
Even the size of the crowd at the National Mall — estimated between 78,000 and 500,000 — was the subject of extensive media debate.
He followed that up with last year’s Restoring Courage tour in Jerusalem. Tickets for this year’s Restoring Love event, planned for July 26-28 at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, sold out six minutes after going on sale Friday.
Dan Summers, 62, of Ramona, credited Beck with issuing several late warnings in an attempt to “prevent us from going off a cliff.” Summers attended the 2 p.m. event. Beck also spoke at 4 p.m.
“We have been asleep at the switch. The time has come for people to wake up and retake the reins of government,” Summers said. “Those who want to fundamentally change America are changing it from a Christian, moral, diverse society to a one-size-fits all with total government control.”
Beck’s 20-minute address was followed by a roundtable discussion led by Skyline Pastor Jim Garlow, who has been chronicling his wife’s cancer in an online journal. Carol Garlow, in a wheelchair at the event, received a warm round of applause Sunday.
Beck has been urging his radio audience to pray for her.
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