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My friend Andrea Lafferty, at the Traditional Values Coalition, sounded a dire warning about the growing successes of the “Christian Left” in selling their unbiblical policy platforms -- what Dr. Gary North once called “baptized socialism” -- to gullible American Christians:
 
  1. Leftist Group Seeks To Use ‘God Talk’ To Lure Christians To Democrat Party
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  3. February 1, 2007 – A two-year-old public relations firm called “Common Good Strategies” is working behind the scenes to help Democrats convince Christians that they should vote for Democrats of “faith.”
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  5. The PR firm is headed by Mara Vanderslice, a 1997 graduate of Earlham College. Vanderslice formerly worked as an intern for Jim Wallis’ Sojourners organization, a far-leftist “Christian” group that is attempting to convince moderate or conservative Christians that Democrat policies are best for achieving “social justice.” ...
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  7. While at Earlham, Vanderslice was a member of the Earlham Socialist Alliance, a group that supports the release of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal and embraces Marxist-Leninist political views...
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  9. Vanderslice has spoken at rallies held by the radical homosexual group ACT-UP and has been involved in protests against the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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  11. Vanderslice became Howard Dean’s faith advisor and later served as John Kerry’s advisor on faith issues.
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  13. Her group, Common Good Strategies has worked with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Senator Bob Casey, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland; the Kansas Democrat Party and others. All of Vanderslice’s clients won in 2006.
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  15.  “Mara Vanderslice’s attempt to convince Christians to vote for pro-abortion, pro-homosexual Democrats (who hide their real goals behind claims of ‘faith’) is working – and the Republican Party should take note,” said TVC Executive Director Andrea Lafferty. “Tragically, Vanderslice’s brand of ‘progressive’ Christianity has more in common with Marxist-Leninist ideals than with orthodox Christianity. I pray that Christians will not be fooled in 2008 – as many were in 2006. Because many evangelicals voted for liberals in 2006, we face a Congress that is openly hostile to biblical values.”
 
I think the strongest sentence in that report is the one that TVC emphasized themselves: “All of Vanderslice’s clients won in 2006.”
 
This is a woman who was a member of the Earlham Socialist Alliance when she was in college - a group that embraces Marxist-Leninist political views. It doesn’t look like she’s renounced those views, just glossed them over while working for some of the leading liberal groups and candidates of our time.
 
Christians in this country have a biblical duty to work and vote for candidates who adhere to and promote Godly values and biblical policy positions. Sodomy is not a Godly value. Baby-killing is not a biblical policy position. Claiming that it’s okay to hold to those values and positions because you believe in “social justice” and therefore you’re a “good Christian” is more than just disingenuous; it’s a lie from the pit of hell, and if Christians fall for it, they’re selling their birthright - dominion under God - for a mess of ungodly, anti-Christian pottage.
 
Overall, it appears to me that my original thesis - that Christians and Christian leaders are sorely lacking in understanding what the Bible says about Christian political involvement - holds true. Thus, the need for a book focusing on that.
 
Hey, there’s an idea...
 
William Greene is the author of Christian Political Activism: Biblical Principles for Active Faith, a “work in progress.” Read the latest chapters at ActiveFaith.us.
“And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.” (Genesis 25:29-34).
Friday, February 2, 2007
Selling Our Birthright?