In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, hate crime, and worst mass shooting in US history to date at the LGBT nightclub Pulse, in Orlando, Florida — which left 49 dead and 53 injured — the GOPs winning formula seems to have ripened into political poison for the GOP. When Inhofe coined his famous phrase, the Christian Coalition was in its heyday, and evangelical Christians enjoyed their strongest period of influence over the Republican party.
Created by televangelist and failed presidential candidate Pat Robertson in , the Christian Coalition filled a vacuum left by the dissolution of the Moral Majority, headed by televangelist Jerry Falwell, which mobilized conservative Christian voters during the The Coalition was headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia in , when it began producing non-partisan voter guides and distributing them to conservative Christian churches.
Its strategy of targeting low-profile elections, focusing get-out-the-vote efforts on conservative churches, and instructing candidates to hide their views from the public — by avoiding public appearance and refusing to fill our questionnaires. By the organization was ranked by Fortune magazine as the 7th most powerful political organization in America.
By — burdened by declining donations, racial discrimination lawsuits, and the loss of its tax-exempt status, the combination of the above, combined with the loss of its tax-exempt status due to Coalition had to abandon its Washington headquarter for a suburb of Charleston, South Carolina, and cut its lobbying staff from 12 to one. In seven years, the number of Americans who identify as Christian dropped nearly 8 percent — from 78 percent in to 71 percent in — according to the Pew Research Center.
While most Americans still identify as Christians, they are a lot less white and Protestant than ever before. New data from the American Values Atlas shows that white Christians are a minority in 19 states. The ratio of white Catholics to Hispanic Catholics is now 2 to 1, compared to 3 to 1 in the s. Evangelicals are stuck with Trump in the same say the GOP is stuck with them.
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We also know that Republicans have long-standing ties to evangelical Christian extremists who want us just as dead a they say Muslim extremists do. Showing 1- 35 of One concern regarding the use of this text in a classroom setting, however, is its lack of formal citations or a bibliography. Evangelicals are stuck with Trump in the same say the GOP is stuck with them. Those views had already locked Russia into favored nation status with the so-called Christian Right.
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