Mantyla also highlighted another noteworthy aspect of the Rock Church event: After Newt Gingrich's speech - in which the former "Contract With America" and GOP 1994 takeover of Congress mastermind called the ACLU a "hateful, anti-religious system designed to drive God out of America" and declared that Americans (non-pagans, at least) were "surrounded by paganism," Newt Gingrich assumed the position while Lou Engle called upon God to bless the former US Speaker of The House with divine magical power: "influence for righteousness in this nation, lay your supernatural hand of God upon him and deliver him from the evil schemes of the enemy." "The position", in this case, is a posture typically taken during charismatic Christian ceremonies in which "spiritual gifts" are transmitted through the laying-on of hands: head down, hands held out or upraised. The posture suggests humility and receptiveness.
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