Charisma Magazine

Fasting and prayer icon Lou Engle is urging Christians to pray with him in a Los Angeles auditorium from Sunday night through Wednesday.

 Feb. 20, 2009 -- Lou Engle, founder of TheCall, is imploring Christians to pray beginning this Sunday night for "reformation" to come to California's government.

Engle, a strong supporter of Proposition 8, a measure on the California ballot passed by voters last November outlawing same-sex marriage, issued his urgent call for fasting and prayer partly as a response to the legal fight gay-rights activists are waging in California courts to overthrow the gay-marriage ban.

"I'm just burning inside for California," Engle said in a video on TheCall Web site. "In a very crisis and critical moment of time, even with the Proposition 8 issue being raged over again, we are taking our stand and saying ‘no' to the powers of darkness and ‘yes' to the brilliant light of God."

A California professor embarrassed a Christian student, calling him a "fascist b -- rd" for giving a class speech about traditional marriage, according to attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Center for Academic Freedom.

Feb. 18, 2009 -- A lawsuit filed last week against officials of the Los Angeles Community College District claims a professor censored and threatened to expel a student at Los Angeles City College following the student's speech about marriage and his Christian faith during a public speaking class assignment.

"Christian students shouldn't be penalized or discriminated against for speaking about their beliefs," said Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) senior counsel David French. "Public institutions of higher learning cannot selectively censor Christian speech.  This student was speaking well within the confines of his professor's assignment when he was censored and ultimately threatened with expulsion."