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The Value of the Moral Values' Voter

Recruitment Begins for First Million

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Living in 'Jesusland'

Defined by our Enemies

The Future of Marriage, Morality and the Supreme Court

The Moral Majority Coalition Platform:

Platform # 1
The Moral Majority Coalition will conduct an intensive four-year "Voter Registration Campaign" through America's conservative churches, para-church ministries, pro-life and pro-family organizations.

Platform #2
The Moral Majority Coalition will conduct well organized "Get-Out-The-Vote Campaigns" in 2006 and 2008.

Platform #3
The Moral Majority Coalition will engage in the massive recruitment and mobilization of social conservatives through television, radio, direct mail (U.S.P.S. and Internet) and public rallies.

Platform #4
The Moral Majority Coalition will encourage the promotion of continuous private and corporate prayer for America's moral renaissance based on 2 Chronicles 7:14.

It’s Time for Christians to Get Out the Vote
by Jerry Falwell

 

Daily media stories are full of doom and gloom for Republicans.  If we are to believe these election accounts, the GOP is in an out-of-control downward spiral that cannot be fixed before the November 7 elections.

I don’t claim to be an election authority, but I’ve been around a long time and I have learned that the polls and the pundits aren’t always right   And I think the pollsters may be off target in terms of this election.

My primary reason for believing this is based in my relationship with the so-called “religious right,” or the old Moral Majority.

I don’t believe the polls accurately depict the preparedness of the conservative Christian community to vote.  Sure, I think the recent Foley scandal and other government indignities have discouraged some, but when you get down to brass tacks, these controversies don’t alter our core values.

 

Christians continue to want to elect those candidates that best reflect their biblical values and support the issues that have defined our movement since we swept Ronald Reagan into the Oval Office in 1980.  Our values have not changed.

As Gary Bauer, chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, says, “The right to life and traditional marriage are not wedge issues, they are winning issues.  Values issues are not distractions from the business of governing.  They are central to the survival of our republic.

If Christians were a little complacent about the approaching elections, I believe this week’s New Jersey Supreme Court ruling, that the state must tender rights of marriage to homosexual couples, has rejuvenated our constituency.

This ruling is a striking reminder that many of our nation’s jurists have jumped on the politically-correct bandwagon and are attempting to force their will on the people.  We simply must elect lawmakers—whether Democrat or Republican—who seek to protect traditional marriage and the unborn.

Our laws must not be determined based on social whims

I read with interest this week that Sen. Hillary Clinton said that her outlook on homosexual marriage “has certainly evolved.”

This gives Mrs. Clinton, who has previously said that she does not support same-sex marriage, a political out.  She can simply “evolve” into what she needs to be in order to recruit the voters she thinks she needs.

“Oops!  I evolved.”

When one’s core values are swinging in the wind, they’re certainly not worth a whole lot.

I don’t believe the conservative Christian community—whose core values are deeply rooted in the Bible—are ready to allow fickle politicians to determine that traditional marriage is suddenly obsolete.

So that brings us to the November elections and the key question of the day: Will the “values voters” show up at the polls?

It is imperative that we do.

I am urging Christians across this nation to study the candidates and the issues and then go to the polls to vote for those men and women that best reflect our values.

This election is far from over, even though many pundits want us to believe it is.

Let’s get out and vote.  In the seven states where there are marriage protection amendments on the ballots—Arizona, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin—I urge Christians to make their voices heard.

Pastors, this Sunday, encourage all of your parishioners to be at the polls on November 7 to accomplish their Christian responsibility.  Let’s prove that the “religious right” continues to be a very significant voting bloc.

 

on March 30th, 2011

Evangelicals and Global Warming
by Jerry Falwell

 

There is a developing cultural divide occurring within the evangelical community over an unlikely subject: global warming.

On one side, we have Southern Baptist-in-name-only Al Gore touting the potential ruin of the planet in his film “An Inconvenient Truth.”  Joining with him, somewhat surprisingly, has been the upstart Evangelical Climate Initiative (ECI), which has called for sweeping reform to combat global warming in what it terms a Bible-based response to the issue.

Curiously, the ECI, which includes 86 prominent church leaders, has linked with abortion-on-demand and population control organizations that are touting global warming as genuine science.

The ECI’s decision to join the global warming wars compelled two conservative evangelical think tanks — the Institute on Religion & Democracy and the Action Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty — to suggest the ECI has been “exploited” by the abortion-rights community.  They note that this strange union could actually “give anti-Christian ideologies unmerited moral and theological cover.”

Indeed, it could.

On the other hand, a position from which I am writing, there are those who believe that, while the earth appears to have slightly warmed in recent years, there is legitimate question as to whether this has been caused by human activity or by natural cycles.

So, a group of evangelicals has united to counter the efforts of the ECI.  This group, the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance (ISA), is a gathering of scholars and pastors (yes, they can coexist) who believe that “evangelicals should be wary of the politicization and bad science of global warming alarmism.”

The problem is that when evangelicals jump on board with liberal groups that are advancing climate alarmism, the so-called major media is there to trumpet their action.  As such, when the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance’s released its “Call to Truth, Prudence and Protection of the Poor,” which contains a “detailed biblical and scientific response to the much-heralded Evangelical Climate Initiative,” it was virtually ignored by the media.

Another frequently ignored element in the global warming debate is the fact that so-called solutions to the problem will damage the American economy.

Bill Saunders, director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Human Life and Bioethics and Human Rights Council, recently wrote: “If the effects of global warming are real and, in the future, humans face hotter summers and higher sea levels, the solution is not restricting energy access and limiting economic growth. That is quite unlikely to solve the problem.  It is certain to lead to economic recession in developed countries, invariably keeping undeveloped countries in poverty as their growth is dependent on the strength of developed nations.”

So we must address any real climate changes with legitimate solutions that do not hinder economic development in our nation.  The world will certainly suffer if America is monetarily punished.

Nevertheless, the United Nations is touting global warming as an issue as problematic as terrorism.

This week, Sen. James Inhofe dismissed a U.N. meeting on climate change as “a brainwashing session,” proclaiming that “The idea that the science (on global warming) is settled is altogether wrong.”

He’ll certainly be pilloried by those who believe we should not question the facts of global warming.

I thank God that we have reasonable men like Sen. Inhofe (R-Okla.) who are willing to take a stand.

Finally, I think it’s interesting that, according to the NOAA National Climatic Data Center, the last two months in the continental U.S. have been cooler than average.

The organization reported: “The combination of a cooler-than-average September and October dropped the year-to-date national temperature from record warmest to third warmest for the January through October 2006 period. The record warmest January through October occurred in 1934.”

I imagine if the scientists of 1934 had the technology we enjoy today, they would have been predicting global warming in their era, as well.  The only problem would have been that their fellow scientists in the 1970s would be predicting a massive global freeze in the near future.  Of course, that didn’t happen.

In other words, cooler heads must prevail in this global warming debate, especially in the evangelical community.

 

on March 30th, 2011