Watch: Republican Congressman cries as he begs God to ‘forgive’ America for gay marriage

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An emotional Republican Congressman sobbed his way through a speech begging God to forgive the ā€œsinsā€ of equal marriage.

Randy Weber is a member of the United States House of Representatives, and has represented Texasā€™ 14th congressional district since 2013.

He made an appearance last night at an ultra-conservative religious event, titled ā€˜Washington ā€“ A Man of Prayerā€™. A video appears below.

Watch: Republican Congressman cries as he begs God to ‘forgive’ America for gay marriage

At the event, Weber led a prayer begging for Godā€™s ā€œforgivenessā€ for Americaā€™s sins, openly weeping as he addressed same-sex marriage.

He said: ā€œFather, we have trampled on your holy institution of holy matrimony and tried to rewrite what it is and weā€™ve called it an alternate lifestyle.ā€

Welling up and beginning to cry, he said: ā€œFather, oh Father, please forgive us!ā€

The lawmaker continued to sob as he begged for Godā€™s forgiveness for abortion, saying ā€œFather, weā€™re killing our descendants and weā€™re calling it a choice. Oh Lord, forgive us.ā€

He continued: ā€œLord, forgive our sins. Help us to get back on your path, to a true understanding of ā€˜blessed is the nation whose god is Lordā€™.

ā€œLet that please be us. Donā€™t remove your hand of protection from us, Father, please.

ā€œForgive us our manifold sins, and bring us back to your mercy, father, I beg of you. I plead with you.ā€


Weber has a long anti-LGBT history.

He previously backed a bill called the ā€˜State Marriage Defense Actā€™, seeking to limit federal recognition of gay weddings after the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down.

Explaining the bill, he said: ā€œMaybe [there will] be a groundswell where people can get behind this and say, ā€˜Look, weā€™re tired of activist judges just systematically destroying the foundation of the family by throwing out a lot of these laws that people have voted for.ā€™

ā€œYouā€™ve got to be watching the absolute insanity out of some of these judges across the countryā€¦ they have just thrown the entire country, in my opinion, into turmoil with a lot of these judges saying, ā€˜Well, itā€™s a right, the people of those states cannot choose what they want their state to look likeā€™.ā€

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