How the Christian Right Is Using Hobby Lobby and "Duck Dynasty" to Take Back America

Mother Jones ^ | October 31, 2014 | Mariah Blake

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Evangelicals are mobilizing for the midterms.

Pundits may be declaring the culture wars over, but conservative Christians are donning their battle gear and rushing back to the front lines. In recent months, a coalition of conservative evangelical organizations has been pursuing an aggressive voter mobilization campaign that involves a combination of high-tech tools, briefings for pastors, and rallies simulcast to mega-churches around the country.

The goal of these gatherings is to drum up outrage over recent political skirmishes, including the Hobby Lobby lawsuit, and to persuade believers that their religious freedoms are under attack by ungodly forces. During one recent event, which was shown in churches across the nation, speakers likened the situation of US churchgoers to Christians beheaded by ISIS in Syria. "We see the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, truth and lies," said David Benham, whose planned HGTV reality show was canceled after his fiercely anti-gay remarks came to light. "What's happening with swords over in the Middle East is happening with silence over here in America."

The campaign dates back to March, when United in Purpose, a nonprofit funded by wealthy evangelical Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, convened a Voter Mobilization Strategy Summit near Dallas. At the event, churches and conservative Christian political organizations forged a strategy to mobilize voters for the 2014 midterms. United in Purpose, a behind-the-scenes technology and communications group with deep dominionist ties, also shared a variety of tools including videos and voter mobilization apps. (One app allows pastors to compare their membership rosters with voter rolls, so they can better guide their flock to the polls.) The Family Research Council and Texas-based Vision America, which played a key role in the summit, then began hosting policy briefings for pastors and staging lavishly produced voter mobilization events that were broadcast live to churches...

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And self professing Christians voted for Democrats in November of 2012.

I'm sorry, but anyone who votes for any Democrat can not be a Christian. It's not like it's not plainly obvious what the Democrats stand for (everything that is in the spirit of antichrist).

Any so-called Christian who votes Democrat is apostate or worse.

[50sDad]

Well...we ARE being persecuted. If we are good at fighting back, tough luck, you atheist, Liberal, whiner.

[Slyfox]

There must have been a greater purpose other than he doesn’t like Bibi and that Hussein just happens to be a muslim. No, there was a deeper meaning and I am trying to figure it out. For some reason he needed to have others in collusion with him, because he could just hate Israel all himself and refer to Jerusalem in any way privately, but his insistence that the entire DNC mirror his attitude was just weird.

[elcid1970]

An excellent summation of the leftie rag of today. Didn’t know how much Michael Moore’s fat fingers were all over it.

The original Mary Harris Jones (1837-1930) was a labor organizer & crusader against the often horrible working conditions of more than a century ago. She wasn’t the screaming radical today’s MJ staff make her out to be.

The real Mother Jones would be appalled at how her name has been used & abused by today’s commie crowd.

[Persevero]

“It’s not like it’s not plainly obvious what the Democrats stand for (everything that is in the spirit of antichrist).”

All you have to do is read their official party platform. It’s not like they are hiding their hideous agenda.

[cport]

I remember, doorgunner, the narrative was how the electorate threw a “tantrum” . Rrrrrr

[sport]

I feel the same as you do on that.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

As do the other illiterate hundred who had to have it read to them! ;>0

[Trillian]

They’re just made that they don’t have control of either like they do with everything else.

[doorgunner69]

the electorate threw a “tantrum”

IIRC, that was some MSM punk that was not even a US citizen that made that statement.

Did not watch network TV then, nor have I since then

[catnipman]

Yeah, I always knew there was something weird about Duck Dynasty. I always got a queasy feeling in my stomach when I watched it, so I videotaped it and slowed the tape down to see individual frames, and sure enough, every couple of minutes, a frame would be snuck in that said “VOTE REPUBLICAN!” in big bold letters that filled the screen!

[VRW Conspirator]

Actually, Obama tried to get the platform committee to pass some measures, two of which were taking God out of the platform and also not recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.

Scary stuff.