Weak Teavangelicals

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Weak Teavangelicals
Despite great efforts, Billy Graham and his flock failed to pull out a Romney win. Is the ‘values voter’ era over?

BY Chris Lehmann


If Barack Obama’s win proves one thing, it’s that Republicans can no longer count on the religious Right shepherding its flocks to the polls to produce a GOP victory.

It’s not that evangelicals didn’t try. As the 2012 election cycle gasped and wheezed to a close, religious activists on the Right rushed to render the whole ghastly spectacle as a stained-glass diptych of a runaway secularist state facing off against an affronted-but-energized piety.

Ralph Reed’s PAC, the Faith & Freedom Coalition, dispatched some 15 million voter guides to more than 100,000 churches, urging the evangelical faithful to turn out en masse, “specifically in the battleground ‘swing states’ and districts that will decide the outcome … and whether freedom can be saved in America.”

Billy Graham, the 94-year-old éminence grise of the evangelical movement, took out a series of full-page newspaper ads, urging readers “to vote for those who … support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman.” ..................(more)

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Since old people can't live forever and unemployed rednecks can only be mobilized in political activities for so long before their economic reality finally settles in, and since both groups have more or less been indoctrinated in the FU Altruism Ayn Rand way of thinking, the community they created was a hollow one, nearly devoid of any support.
 
Evangelist Billy Graham, who turned 94 the day after the Nov. 6 presidential elections, has written a response to the re-election of President Barack Obama while sharing his plans for the future, which include a new evangelism campaign.

"Now with the votes counted, it is important to remember that whether we are personally pleased with the outcome or not, God wants us to pray for those chosen to be our leaders – at the national, state, and local levels. The Bible urges us to do so with both respect and thanksgiving (see 1 Peter 2:17; 1 Timothy 2:1–3)" the evangelist says.


Graham faced some criticism after he appeared to put his support behind GOP candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon who some evangelical leaders said should not be supported by mainstream Christians. Graham met Romney last month at his home in North Carolina and praised him for his strong personal values, which he said were aligned with biblical positions – such as Romney's support for traditional marriage and his pro-life views.


While stopping short of officially endorsing Romney, the Billy Graham Evangelical Association published a number of articles informing Christians that they need to pray and vote based on those biblical values. Furthermore, an article describing Mormonism as a "cult" was removed after the candidate's visit with Graham and his son, Franklin.


In his response to Obama's victory, however, Graham reflected that regardless of the results, no election will solve America's basic problems – which he says stem from the human heart. He added that the only path to restoration for a person or for a nation is through repentance.


"The Bible says, 'Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19–20, ESV),'" the evangelist said. "Only the Gospel, God's Good News, has the power to change lives, heal hearts, and restore a nation."

Read more at Billy Graham Responds to Obama Victory, Continues Evangelism Campaign

 

Now you are talking .....:rofl:
 
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