In 2005, he spoke to the national convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens and in 2010 he addressed an event commemorating Alabama's Secession Day where he told an interviewer that it was Alabama's "constitutional right to secede" and that "Jefferson Davis and John C. Calhoun understood the Constitution better than did Abraham Lincoln and Daniel Webster".
In April 2010, he was disinvited from a Tea Party rally in Wausau, Wisconsin, because of these statements and appearances.
[1] The congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann described Eidsmoe as "one of the professors who had a great influence on me", "a wonderful man" and "absolutely brilliant".
[1] Eidsmoe is, as of 2023, the senior counsel and resident scholar at the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery, Alabama.
[7] He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Institute of Lutheran Theology, in Brookings, South Dakota.