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A Project of the Center for Religion, Ethics And Social Policy at Cornell University

A Project of the Center for Religion, Ethics And Social Policy at Cornell University. “Oh my God! We really are in a theocracy.” (Maureen Dowd, New York Times , March 24, 2005) . “ Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;. for the LORD will not

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A Project of the Center for Religion, Ethics And Social Policy at Cornell University

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  1. A Project of the Center for Religion, Ethics And Social Policy at Cornell University

  2. “Oh my God! We really are in a theocracy.” (Maureen Dowd, New York Times, March 24, 2005)

  3. “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain;

  4. for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” (Hebrew Scriptures, Exodus 20)

  5. Christopher Shays (R-CT)

  6. “The Party of Lincoln has become the Party of theocracy.” (Christopher Shays, R-CT, New York Times, March 24, 2005)

  7. History • II. Dominion Theology • III. “Thy Kingdom Come • Thy Will Be Done” • IV. What We Can Do

  8. 1964

  9. Paul Weyrich Republican Strategist

  10. 1973 Founded Heritage Foundation

  11. Proposed targeting • members of: • Fundamentalist • Pentecostal • Charismatic Churches.

  12. 1979 Coined Term “Moral Majority”

  13. 1981 The Council for National Policy

  14. Reverend Tim LaHaye First President Council for National Policy

  15. Paul Weyrich Council for National Policy

  16. Council for National Policy James Dobson Focus on the Family Family Research Council

  17. Council for National Policy Pat Robertson Christian Broadcasting Network 700 Club Christian Coalition Regents University

  18. Council for National Policy Rousas Rushdoony Christian Reconstruction Movement Jerry Falwell Moral Majority

  19. 1989 Moral Majority disbands Christian Coalition forms

  20. Pat Robertson • Christian Coalition

  21. He decided to take over • the Republican Party • from the bottom up.

  22. Ralph Reed “We think the Lord is going to give us this nation back one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.” (Christianity Today, April 3, 1990)

  23. Washington State GOP Platform, 1992 Outlawed: - Witchcraft - Yoga Classes

  24. Pat Robertson "We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians...“ (Denver Post, 10/26/92)

  25. “It’s like guerilla warfare… It’s better to move quietly, with stealth, under the cover of night.” (LA Times, March 22, 1992)

  26. 1994 40 million Family Values Voter Guides in more than 100,000 churches

  27. 2000 70 million voter guides to support George W. Bush

  28. Christian Coalition Scorecards, 2004 U.S. Senate # of Senators Percentage of votes with CC

  29. 42 % of U.S. Senators received 100% rating from Christian Coalition.

  30. 42 % of U.S. Senators received 100% rating from Christian Coalition. 22% of population identify as Christian Right.

  31. “With the apathy that exists today, a well organized minority can influence the selection of candidates to an astonishing degree.” (The Millennium, 1990)

  32. Ralph Reed Active Faith: How Christians Are Changing the Soul of American Politics. 1996

  33. “The surest antidote to tyranny is a free people who believe it owes allegiance to a Higher Power, not the government.” (Ralph Reed, Active Faith, 1996, p. 8-9)

  34. “The preamble of the Constitution invokes the people of the United States. It does not invoke any sort of God.” (The Godless Constitution, Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore)

  35. “The consent of the governed rests upon faith in a sovereign God. (Ralph Reed, Active Faith, 1996, p. 8-9)

  36. “… faith as political force is the very essence of democracy.” (Ralph Reed, Active Faith, 1996, p. 8-9)

  37. “The consent of the governed rests upon faith in a sovereign God...” (Ralph Reed, Active Faith, 1996, p. 8-9)

  38. "Government... is the minister of God…” (Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia First Things, May, 2002)

  39. The word "God" does not appear within the text of the Constitution of the United States.

  40. “We need common sense judges who understand that our rights arederived from God. Those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench.” (George Bush, quoted in fundraising letter, Traditional Values Coalition, March, 2005)

  41. Michael McConnell U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit

  42. “Freedom flourishes when man is subordinate to God.” (Michael McConnell,Los Angeles Times, Jan. 13, 2001)

  43. History • Dominion Theology/ • Christian Reconstructionism • III. “Thy Kingdom Come • Thy Will Be Done” • IV. What We Can Do

  44. “Christians alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns…” (Sara Diamond Z Magazine, February, 1995)

  45. George Grant Bringing in the Sheaves, (1985)

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