In addition to being the originator and leading purveyor of most of the bogus Christian nationalist propaganda circulating today,
#David #Barton is also a virulently anti-LGBTQ religious-right activist
who has repeatedly said that AIDS is God "penalty" for those who engage in "shameful sexual acts."
As such, Barton has asserted multiple times that AIDS is something for which there will never be a cure.
In a shocking development,
the confident predictions of a right-wing activist with a bachelor's degree in Christian education from Oral Roberts University have been refuted by actual scientists
As ABC News reported, "modern medication can keep the virus at bay,
and studies looking into preventing HIV infection with a vaccine are also underway,"
which is also something that Barton repeatedly asserted would never succeed.
Despite having obtained only a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s, #David #Barton now routinely bills himself as
“America’s premier historian”
and has established a reputation as the Religious Right’s go-to “expert” for making the case that
the Founding Fathers intended to establish America to be a Christian nation that operates according to the laws of God as set out in the Bible.
In addition to running WallBuilders,
a right-wing organization through which he broadcasts a daily radio program and organizes hundreds of speaking engagements a year,
Barton is also a Republican Party activist,
having served as a past vice chairman of the Republican Party of Texas,
a delegate to the Republican National Convention,
a member of the Republican Platform Committee and the head of a super PAC that supported Sen. Ted Cruz during his 2016 presidential run.
Earlier this year, Oklahoma’s Christian nationalist state superintendent of education Ryan Walters announced that he was creating an executive review committee to overhaul the state's social studies curriculum
-- and that it would be stocked with far-right activists and ideologues.
Among those appointed to the committee was Christian nationalist pseudo-historian #David #Barton, a longtime religious-right activist who has repeatedly misrepresented his academic credentials and whose scholarship is so shoddy that one of his books was pulled off the marked by his own publisher in 2012 after it concluded that “basic truths just were not there.”
Barton is notorious for misrepresenting history in order to bolster his right-wing political agenda
and for continuing to repeat his false claims long after they have been debunked.
Both of these tendencies were on display when Barton appeared on "The War Room" over the weekend.
"According to University of Houston, they did a 10 year study," Barton said. "They collected the writings the Founding Fathers in the founding era
—15,000 they used
—and they found in those 3,154 direct quotes.
They said, 'All right, now let's see who the Founding Fathers quoted.'
The number one source for their quotes was the Bible.
Thirty four percent of all those political quotes came out of Bible verses,
and the number one Bible book [was] the book of Deuteronomy."
Barton's statement is certainly misleading, as Right Wing Watch has pointed out time and again:
This claim is a deliberate misrepresentation of a 1984 study conducted by professor Donald S. Lutz of the University of Houston
that sought to identify which writers and sources of ideas were most cited in “the political writings of Americans published between 1760 and 1805.”
Lutz found that the Bible was cited most frequently solely because many of the pamphlets included in the research were sermons that had been reprinted for mass distribution.
Once the sermon pamphlets were excluded, Lutz reported that quotes from the Bible appeared no more frequently in the political writings of the era than citations of the classical or common law.
More importantly, Lutz also noted that when the focus was solely on the public political writings from 1787 to 1788, when the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified, “the Bible’s prominence disappears” almost completely.
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/people/david-barton
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Rockbridge began with more humility. 
attacked prominent Democrats in a string of social media posts uncovered by the Guardian.