God's Red Army

[MineralMan]

Since this is the Religion Group, I thought it would be interesting to see what some Christians are doing about the election. They're working hard to get like-minded people elected is what they're doing. Other groups of Christians, who might not be a conservative as the ones described below, are doing virtually nothing as a group.

And yet, nobody in the more progressive groups of Christian organizations seems to be coming out to say, "Hey! This isn't right. We need to counter this crap." Christians aren't supposed to judge, see, so they don't judge their fellow religionists. They don't speak out against this kind of campaigning from the pulpit. It's all good, see, because they're Christians, too.

So, I'll say it: "Hey! This isn't right! Get off your butts and mobilize your progressive memberships to vote for progressives, damnit!"

More at the link...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/midterms-christian-right-election-day.html

The Republican Party hopes to beat back the Democrats on Tuesday with a big push from the Christian right.

Nov. 2, 2018

If Democrats fail to realize their dream of a blue wave in Tuesday’s midterm elections perhaps the biggest factor will be the organizing power of the Christian nationalist movement. “If we do our jobs,” Ralph Reed of the Faith & Freedom Coalition boasted at the Values Voters Summit in September, “they are going to be more shocked than they were the last time.”

Among leaders of the Christian right, conversations about 2018 tend to begin with happy memories of 2016.

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The Christian nationalist turnout machine relies heavily on an extensive network of conservative pastors. The Family Research Council, for example, runs “pastor briefings” through its organization Watchmen on the Wall, which claimed 28,000 members in 2014. At a Watchmen pastors briefing in Unionville, N.C., on Oct. 4, Mr. Perkins said: “The members of your congregation need to vote. As pastors, you need to — I’m not going to say ‘challenge them’ — you need to tell them to vote.”

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The Family Research Council offers pastors comprehensive tool kits, including a 36-page ivotevalues.org resource guide and instructions for establishing “Culture Impact Teams” within churches, which aim to turn out congregants to vote their “biblical values.” Mr. Church’s Awake88 group offers a “Church Voter Lookup,” which essentially marries a church database with a voter database. The Faith & Freedom Coalition is working with 30,000 churches and aims to distribute millions of voter guides by Tuesday.