Falwell's Son Urges Conservative Pastors To Get Out the Vote

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Falwell's Son Urges Conservative Pastors To Get Out the Vote
By Tim Craig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 12, 2007; B02


The Rev. Jonathan Falwell, son of the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell. (Alexa Welch Edlund - AP)

RICHMOND, Sept. 11 -- The son of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, whose Moral Majority helped reshape the national political landscape, vowed Tuesday to pick up where his father left off and help change public policy in Virginia and in Washington. Jonathan Falwell's first mission: Elect more social conservatives to the Virginia General Assembly.

Falwell is pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, which his father founded in the 1950s and later used as a perch to galvanize social conservatives into getting involved in politics. Jerry Falwell's efforts, including the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979, helped realign Virginia into a GOP stronghold in the 1990s. But amid signs that Virginia might be leaning Democratic, Falwell said Virginia pastors need to refocus their efforts on getting their congregants out to vote this fall for legislative candidates who "believe the Bible is the truth."...

Falwell's speech launched an effort by Pastors for Family Values, an offshoot of the Richmond-based Family Foundation, to play a major role in the Nov. 6 election, when all 140 seats in the House and Senate are on the ballot. The fall elections could have a substantial impact on state policies in such areas as abortion rights, school vouchers and divorce laws....

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At Tuesday's meeting, the racially diverse group of pastors was given instructions for registering voters. The pastors also were urged to speak from the pulpit to get voters to the polls. The Family Foundation's effort comes a year after the group successfully campaigned for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions in Virginia. The measure was approved by 57 percent of voters....

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Abortion rights and gay rights groups are vowing to match the efforts of the Family Foundation, which distributes tens of thousands of voter guides ranking candidates by their stance on key issues....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102158.html?hpid=sec-religion

[YOY]

1. Wanker.

eom

[Joe Bacon]

2. Oh, IRS, what about Falwell Jr's tax-exempt status????????

Time to take this welfare queen off the faith-based Gravy Train! If he wants to play, make him pay!

[shaniqua6392]

3. Yahoo!! Vote for David Vitter.....

Vote for Larry Craig. Ooops. Really. What the hell do they think evangelicals are feeling about the Republican Party right now? All of the scandals over the past 6 1/2 years have taken a toll on the party. Many evangelicals will be staying home on election day 2008. Some of them may even vote for a Dem. They have realized they will never get what they want from the Republican party that Shrub created.

[Hawaii Hiker]

4. Like father - like son, just another

evangelical crackpot...All the tremendous problems in the world today, & all these dopes care about is abortion & gay marriage...

Fuck them...

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[TlalocW]

6. I've never even really heard of this guy until now

His dad enjoyed the limelight too much I guess so I don't think sonny-boy is going to have much luck galvanizing conservatives - he probably doesn't have the same skill in project righteous prick-a-tude that his dad did that right-wingers seemed to eat up. Combine that with all the scandals hitting the GOP and a likely Mormon candidate, they're not going to be pumped up to vote. You know along with all the sermons condemning gays, secularists, and feminists, Jerry and his ilk have attacked Mormonism, so if sonny-boy comes out in favor of him, it will look like a betrayal of his father.

TlalocW