# National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) A conservative Christian legislative network founded by former Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert. Domain christianlawmakers.com (per Rapert's email address [email protected] used in correspondence with Peterson). The Auditor's-office documentary record places NACL as the convener of the October 7, 2024 Capitol Rotunda press conference in Little Rock marking the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Peterson's 10/7/2024 email to the Israeli Embassy describes the event in NACL's name: "Today, with the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, Christian and Jewish leaders came together for a press conference announcing unwavering support for Israel and our Jewish friends in America." The Auditor of State delivered prepared remarks at the NACL event. The remarks (drafted by Stacy Peterson and approved by Milligan) framed Milligan's commitment to Israel Bonds investment in explicitly Christian terms: "As a Christian, I have supported Israel all my life. The Bible tells us that our Jewish friends are God's chosen people, and I believe that it's my Christian duty to support you all." The remarks then recounted Milligan's 2015-2017 work as Arkansas Treasurer of State to enact Arkansas's Israel Bonds enabling legislation (Act 644 of 2017) through his connection to NACL founder Rapert: "Soon after I took that office back in 2015, I was approached by an Israeli development corporation about the potential of bringing legislation to Arkansas that would allow the state to invest in bonds from Israel. I connected the developers with Sen. Rapert, and through that connection Act 644 was born." NACL is therefore documented as the institutional venue at which the Auditor of State publicly recommitted to Israel Bonds investment three weeks before Brady's 10/23/2024 formal pension outreach to ATRS and APERS executive directors. The Christian-Zionist framing of NACL ("Christian duty to support" Israel, "God's chosen people") layers with the SFOF state-financial-officer-network Christian-conservative framing ([[sfof-state-financial-officer-network]]) and provides a religious-political infrastructure operating in parallel to the pecuniary fiduciary frame Act 498 of 2023 imposes on the actual ATRS Board action ([[pecuniary-frame-act-498]]). ## What the materials do not establish Whether NACL has any institutional or financial relationship with DCI is not documented in this batch. Whether other state-financial-officer offices have NACL touchpoints similar to the Arkansas Auditor's 10/7/2024 event is not knowable from this batch. NACL's organizational structure, board composition, funding sources, and 501(c) status are not addressed by the materials and are follow-up research targets. ## Evidence > "Today, with the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, Christian and Jewish leaders came together for a press conference announcing unwavering support for Israel and our Jewish friends in America." > Stacy Peterson to Israeli Embassy ([email protected]), Solidarity with Israel.pdf p.1, 10/7/2024 3:54 PM > "Mr. Rapert, Attached is a copy of the letter that Auditor Milligan mailed to Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog today. We look forward to seeing you on Monday." > Stacy Peterson to [email protected] (NACL email address), Support for Israel Letter from Auditor Milligan.pdf p.1, 10/3/2024 ## Cross-References [[jason-rapert]] founder of NACL [[dennis-milligan]] State Auditor who delivered remarks at the NACL-convened 10/7/2024 event [[stacy-peterson]] Auditor's-office Director of Communications who designed the speech, coordinated the letter, and corresponded with NACL [[october-2024-israel-solidarity-operation]] concept page documenting the campaign NACL co-convened [[sfof-state-financial-officer-network]] companion concept page on the parallel SFOF state-financial-officer Christian-conservative infrastructure [[auditor-foia-r2-stacy-peterson]] source page