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feel like christians are too much in the game of politics right now. and i would simply disagree with that. reporter: critics denounce the pastor s views as dangerous revisionist history, designed to create an intolerant christian government. but to parsley, a secular left is trying to demonize and demoralize an increasingly powerful christian right. if you sing onward christian soldier in your sunday school class, all of the sudden folks want to label you as jihadist and say you re fighting for a theocracy. nothing could be further from the truth. reporter: maybe not, but parsley is no agent of tolerance. he is has railed against homosexuals, denounced islam as a faith that fully intends to conquer the world. his activist christianity is hardly one size fits all. that god is the author of history. reporter: in washington, after a full day of touring, a new sense of purpose. i would like to see god be the very foundation of
respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting in the free exercise thereof. and it was thomas jefferson who said that created, quote, a wall of separation between church and state. what does separation of church and state then mean to you? i don t think they intended for the government to interfere in the church. i certainly don t think it was a surrendering of our citizenship to express religious faith. reporter: parsley is one of an increasingly vocal and influential group of christian conservatives who claim america was built on biblical principles by devout men of faith. the church they insist was expected to be politically active. the founding of our nation was upon the judeo christian ethic. we ve got to get back in the game and stand up for the authenticity of the purely world view. there are a lot of people who
barrier built by the founding fathers to separate church and state, block one from meddling in the affairs of the other. i pledge of allegiance to the flag reporter: in school, we re taught that that s what makes our country special. but what if that wall never existeded? what if it s a myth conjured up in our lifetime to mass act greater truth, that america was conceived as a christian nation. the bible is the central most important influence in the birth, growth, and development of the united states. without the bible and god of the bible, there would be no america as we know it today. reporter: these people are on a spiritual heritage tour of washington, d.c. at every stop, they see proof of god s hand at work in american history. in 1805, abraham lincoln s mother and father went to a camp meeting in kentucky. reporter: but now they say
promises to the hispanic community, just like the president. what i said in my column is look, we have some time. the president, i agree with you. this is not going to happen this year. it s definitely not going to happen this year. but we have to start putting pressure on obama to start doing something before he runs for reelection in 2012. leslie, we re out of time. thank you very much, leslie sanchez, mark halperin, miguel, good to have you here as well. coming up tonight, we re also going to show you why reverend graham s comments to me on this program helped get him disinvited from an appearance at the pentagon. and that s not the only story at this week that has us asking is america a christian nation that when we come back. what did we make better ?