We are a grassroots organization that seeks a return to Judeo-Christian values in public policies. Our major mission is to educate voters through voter guides. The voter guides clearly state the position of candidates on specific issues. After an 8-year battle, they are legal and proper for distribution in churches without effecting their tax-exempt status. These guides show where the candidates stand on issues, so that as many as possible can be informed participants in our democracy.

The Christian Coalition is not aligned with any political party, but is an advocate of issues which align with the concepts and truths of God’s Word. We believe in separation of church and state, and are more interested in providing a bright promising future for our families and protecting our children than in legislating against the sins of others.

Every item of the legislative agenda of the Coalition has been embraced by at least 60% of Americans. (Some items have over 80% support.) Matters like cleaning pornography off the internet, stopping partial birth abortions, and even providing a $500 per child tax credit, are all practical matters aimed at improving the culture and preserving society. We want good things for this country, and practical improvements to public policies. We also want representation in our government that supports traditional families, traditional morals and religious freedoms.

We are alarmed by the spiritual and moral freefall that is taking place in our nation. We work across denominational, racial, and theological boundaries because, in the words of Rabbi Daniel Lappin, “the overarching philosophy that fuels the Leftist agenda is a ferocious determination to extirpate all religious influence in American public life.”

Not surprisingly, we are maligned by our opponents who see us as the single most serious threat to their political agenda. They resent our values, our belief in God, and our respect for innocent life.

Who is Mainstream?

In an effort to undermine religious influence, those opposed to us (who Ronald Reagan called the Iron Triangle - mainsteam media, academia and the entertainment industry), attempt to alienate the American people from us... But consider:

1. USA Weekend, the Sunday magazine insert, did a story on religious conservatives in Sept. 1994. Ralph Reed was on the cover. They surveyed readers and requested their response to the statement, “Religious values are essential to democracy or are religious values a threat to democracy?” In the largest response in USA Weekend’s history (almost 60,000) an overwhelming 86% agreed with Reed. Only 14% said that they were threatened by religious values!

2. The church-going population in this country is the largest single demographic that votes. It is larger than males, females, unions, or any race.

3. Fully 33%, a third of the US population, who voted in November of 1994 were self-professing conservative evangelicals or Roman Catholics. How can a third of the country be portrayed as we often are, with inflammatory words like: extreme, right wing, or radical?

4. President Clinton won office by only 43% of the vote. Yet, 89% of Washington journalists voted for him — twice the national average! Not only are politically active conservative Christians to the right of the media, but by this statistic, so are most Americans.

5. You would think by media coverage that the pro-life position is not viable, but when religious conservatives were active, every pro-life candidate running for Congress in the 1994 election won! Pro-life candidates continue to win across the country and in NJ — despite intense negative media portrayals.

6. Scientific content analysis studies by the Media Research Center http://www.mediaresearch.org, clearly demonstrates that comparative coverage strongly favors liberal, secular, pro-abortion candidates. There are too many examples to list. What is not covered is equally revealing.

We have a right to ask why is the mainstream media providing partisan coverage?

7. Our recent Letter to the Editor of the Press was heavily edited. This is what was edited out:

“Current public policy is encroaching on our freedoms and is increasingly insensitive to our sensibilities and convictions. As shareholders in the American dream, and partakers in the democratic process, even those who have faith in God, should have no less opportunity to affect the policies that affect them, and elect the candidates that represent them, be they Democrats or Republicans.

"Educating voters is important since the media has an interesting, but not quite constitutional sense of responsibility when it comes to covering politics. Was not freedom of the press granted so that we could have an informed electorate? Yet ABC’s NightLine left the Republican Convention because it was not newsworthy.

Christian Coalition volunteers are sincere…They are motivated by conviction and conscience. .....

.....The sexual revolution, the “me-first” mentality, the devaluation of life, increased drug use, the lack of a work ethic, and the thought that relativism somehow replaces truth, were not part of the American culture that contributed to making this a powerful and free nation. These social ills are bankrupting us and causing us to lose our freedoms. Getting back to traditional moral values is worth working for if you have children and want them to have a future.”

Analyzing what was edited out, supports our contentions. The local Press of Atlantic City , just like the major media, does not want to acknowledge:
1. public policies might offend or oppose Christians;
2. Christians have a right to be involved;
3. the media is failing in their constitutional responsibility to inform the electorate;
4. erosion of the Judeo Christian values, which is the basis of our morals and civility is bad;
5. our cause is right and will preserve the future of this country for our children.

Loving Truth

According to Paul’s letter to II Thessalonians 2:10, people will perish “because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” The truth is not the standard in politics or journalism, but, if you are a Christian, it must be your standard!

The truth is the truth whether it is spiritual or political. Unfortunately the truth is not the primary concern of the American media, and the truth isn’t always being told, so you must seek it out to prevent being misled. The Christian Coalition is one resource for you and your congregation to help them to ferret out the truth in this current atmosphere of deceptive campaigning and media malpractice. Because, unlike our opponents, we have an obligation to tell the truth. We are also obliged to work with the system that our country’s founders wisely (from God) devised to preserve our freedoms and work even in the political arena on issues that matter to our families and to Him.

There will never be a perfect candidate. Christ was the only perfect human being, and he is not running for office. But there are God-honoring, pro-family candidates to elect. This country needs an informed electorate. We need to educate ourselves and others, and we need to vote.

Our nation’s future matters to Him. This year’s election is being portrayed as the nation’s most important in terms of our moral direction. Are we going to be the salt we are called to be?

Christ enlightens us, He makes Christians aware of what is going on and responsive to it. If this nation will recover from its current moral crisis, it will be because we participated in the process. Who else is called to this task? But it needs to be done in a spirit of love and of service.