E. W. Jackson

Democrats now have fully embraced an abortion policy that amounts to infanticide. They have also made the lesbian-homosexual-bisexual-transgender agenda their vision for America. How have they managed to hold on to black Christians in spite of an agenda worthy of the Antichrist? They have shown a ruthless willingness to frighten black voters with outright lies about the plans of conservatives and Republicans. Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s 'they gonna put y’all back in chains' was not a gaffe. It is part of the Democrats’ strategy of using fear to keep blacks as a captive audience.

Jackson said his comments about homosexuals have been taken out of context, and that they were directed not towards the general LGBT community, just its more politically active, fringe members. Of past comments that homosexuality "poisons culture", he clarified, "What I really said was that the gay rights movement, so called, the homosexual activists, engage in some behavior that is absolutely horrendous, and that’s true, everybody knows that; from going into Catholic churches and desecrating the Sacraments to engaging in all kinds of demonstrative behavior to try to call attention to what they view as their plight."

In April 2019, Jackson said that the United States will turn into a "homocracy" if it elects Pete Buttigieg, an openly gay candidate, for president.

Jackson's campaign launched a Women for Jackson coalition composed of women across the state supporting Jackson's aim to "fight for greater parental choice in our children’s educational opportunities, stand strong for health standards that keep women’s clinics safe, and help create an economic environment in Virginia that helps people from all walks of life."

In 2018, on December 5 on his radio show, Jackson said “The floor of Congress is now going to look like an Islamic republic”. He said “We are a Judeo-Christian country. We are a nation rooted and grounded in Christianity and that’s that. And anybody that doesn’t like that, go live somewhere else. It’s very simple. Just go live somewhere else". His claim of Christianity as the founding principle of the nation as opposed to principle of natural rights and secularism, his hateful comments toward LGBT and Muslims drew widespread criticism.

Jackson ran for senate again in 2018, but he only garnered 12% of the vote in the Republican Party's open primary and failed to advance in the general election.

Jackson believes many black leaders, such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, along with Barack Obama, "are telling black kids what they can't do." Jackson says he deplores Obama's emphasis on race, and says "The one thing I at least hoped for from the president—and I didn't have much hope for him—was that he'd bring us together. But he has divided us."

On May 18, 2013, Jackson was nominated as the Republican Party candidate for the position, at the party convention in Richmond. The nomination process took four ballots and ten hours of voting. Jackson led in each round of balloting, reaching a majority on the final ballot. Jackson had raised the least money of the seven candidates for the Republican nomination. The Richmond Times-Dispatch called his victory a "stunning upset" over the other candidates. Jackson is the first non-white to be nominated to a statewide office by Virginia Republicans since 1988.

In June 2013 in Manassas, Jackson held a press conference in which he sought to clear the air about his past and counter what he called distortions of his past words and statements by his opponents. Jackson addressed a number of claims about his theology, which he says has been "twisted and distorted," and said, "I'm not going to spend the campaign talking about these issues, so let's get it out of the way now." Jackson also disclosed previously unreported details about his financial history and past drug use, saying he wanted to "reveal as many of my weaknesses and shortcomings as a curious press and my opposition might want to look into," and by doing so, "maybe save you and your colleagues some further research." In regards to claims that he thinks birth defects are caused by parents' sins, Jackson said, "I do not believe that birth defects are caused by parents' sin unless, of course, there's a direct scientific connection between the parents' behavior and the disabilities of the child," such as a child who might develop birth defects if his or her mother was addicted to heroin. He also denied that he had said yoga leads to Satanism: "I do not believe that yoga leads to Satanism. One of my ministers is a yoga instructor. What I said was that Christian meditation does not involve emptying oneself but filling oneself ... with the spirit of God. That is classic Biblical Christianity."

Through the second quarter of 2013 ending on June 30, 2013, Jackson raised $375,324. Most of his contributions were from small donors, indicating a large grassroots base. From July 1 through August 31, 2013, Jackson raised $303,220. That amount was less than Democratic candidate Ralph Northam's fundraising over the same period, but Jackson's individual donors over the period numbered 2,060, more than double the number who donated to Northam. Jackson raised a total of $1.3 million over the course of the campaign cycle, compared to Northam's $2.7 million.

Northam defeated Jackson in the November 5, 2013 general election.

In 2012, Jackson generated national attention with a recorded video appeal to blacks to leave the Democratic Party, saying it has abandoned the values of the black community and that blacks had developed a "slavish devotion" to the party. He has spoken in black churches on issues facing the country and says he generally receives overwhelmingly positive responses.

In an October 2012 op-ed essay in The Washington Times, Jackson wrote:

Jackson announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia on December 1, 2012 at the Republican Party of Virginia Advance in Virginia Beach, Virginia. On January 10, 2013, Jackson released his "Engage and Reform Agenda" which the campaign called "commonsense reforms [that] reassert the principles of our Constitution and Let Liberty Light the Way for Virginia."

In May 2011, Jackson announced he was running for the United States Senate seat in Virginia in the 2012 election. George Allen won the June 2012 primary; Jackson received 5% of the vote.

In June 1998, Jackson was consecrated a bishop. Later that year, he and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia, and began holding weekly Bible studies. Out of the weekly meetings, in 1999 Jackson and his wife founded Exodus Faith Ministries, a nondenominational church. The church rented a space in a storefront location, but was forced to move due to zoning regulations, another incident that helped to shape his view of government overreach. The church rents a room at a Chesapeake hotel, where Jackson preaches every Sunday. Jackson founded Chesapeake's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast, now in its 14th year.

While in Boston, Jackson faced money troubles as he spent nine years trying to rescue a bankrupt radio station, which he took over and converted into a gospel station. Difficulties resulted from extended legal battles with the Federal Communications Commission. In 1993, Jackson was forced to enter bankruptcy protection. Of the bankruptcy filing, Jackson said, "It was painful. It was difficult. It was embarrassing. I don't like the idea of not paying off debts." The protracted battles with the FCC contributed to his belief that the government unreasonably interferes in the free market.

He practiced law in the Boston area for 15 years. Jackson also studied theology at Harvard University's Divinity School. He remained in Boston until the late 1990s as a practicing attorney, and was also a preacher in Boston. He said he was asked to leave his first ministerial position, at a Baptist church in Cambridge in 1982 after two years. He said of his tenure there, "It was an older congregation and I was a young 27-year-old firebrand. It was not a good mix."

Jackson had been a lifelong Democrat; however, in the 1980s he embraced conservatism. He said of his decision, "I had a crisis of conscience. Can I be in a party that holds these views that are antithetical to my worldview? In my personal opinion, it is difficult if you are a Bible-believing Christian to reconcile that to some of the positions that the Democrat Party has taken."

Jackson joined the United States Marine Corps in 1970. He was honorably discharged as a corporal in 1973. Following his graduation from the University of Massachusetts Boston, he attended Harvard University's Law School where he earned his law degree.

Earl Walker Jackson Sr. (born January 13, 1952) is an American conservative politician, Protestant minister, and lawyer in Virginia. He was the Republican Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in the 2013 election. Jackson was a Republican primary candidate for the United States Senate in Virginia in the 2012 election, and sought the nomination again in 2018. He is head pastor at Exodus Faith Ministries, located in Chesapeake, Virginia and founder of S.T.A.N.D. (Staying True to America's National Destiny), a Christian political organization seeking to unite America under the best possible opportunity and values for all people to thrive and succeed in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jackson was born on January 13, 1952 in Chester, Pennsylvania, the great-grandson of slaves from Orange County, Virginia. His parents separated when he was a child, and he spent most of his childhood in a foster home.