From Matt Barber at washingtontimes.com
Once the political tectonic plates shift, there is bipartisan agreement that we can expect an earthshaking groundswell of grassroots advocacy and action to rival - if not surpass - the 2010 Tea Party effect.
Along with their ideological Tea Party cousins - many of whom are one and the same - tens of millions of potential Bible-believing voters are being encouraged - to the extent they need encouragement - to vote their values in 2012. The catalyst? President Obama’s discredited secular-socialist push to “fundamentally transform America.”
This burgeoning Christian movement has not gone unnoticed by the left. For instance, in a piece headlined: “Evangelical pastors heed a political calling for 2012,” the Los Angeles Times recently reported, “Formerly apolitical preachers in states like Iowa, backed by astute organizers and big donors, are mobilizing congregations for the election.”
“Religious leaders have long been active in political causes,” the newspaper notes. “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used his Baptist pulpit to agitate for civil rights, and fiery televangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell awakened the religious right in the 1970s and 1980s with calls to fight what they saw as America’s moral decay.
“But the current awakening is different,” the piece continues. “It springs from the grass roots - small and independent churches - and is fueled by emails and YouTube videos. And it is driven less by personality than by the biblical teaching to be the ‘salt’ and ‘light’ of society - in other words, to have a beneficial influence on the world.”
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