Pro-Family Group Asks Nation's Pastors for Help
by Ed Vitagliano
November 20, 2003
(AgapePress) - A new Internet site has been created by the American Family Association to enroll pastors across the U.S. in an effort to combat the growing cultural threats to the nation's traditional values and religious liberties.The new website, ChurchCoalition.com, is intended to raise up an army of 50,000 pastors who are willing to respond and act on issues of concern to the Church and its families.
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"Our religious liberties and traditional, biblical family values are being attacked with greater and greater frequency by the liberal left, often through the federal court system," said AFA founder and chairman Don Wildmon. "It is time for the Church to rise up and say, 'Enough is enough.'"Pastors who sign up will be contacted through their e-mail from time to time when important issues arise. A simple, specific action will be suggested, such as sending an e-mail, a letter and/or making a phone call to members of Congress or other relevant decision-makers in the private sector.
As the new campaign kicks off, areas of immediate concern include the nation's religious heritage, as seen in the ongoing battles concerning the display of the Ten Commandments and National Motto, and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, and same-sex marriage.
ChurchCoalition.com will not generate needless spam, Wildmon promised, and pastors can unsubscribe at any time. "AFA will never share, rent, sell, loan or give away information obtained from the campaign's supporters," he said.
Those concerns aside, Wildmon said the time has come for God's ministers to come to the forefront on critical cultural issues. "For the sake of future generations," he said, "we must be willing to stand in the gap with both prayer and action."
This article appeared originally in the November/December 2003 issue of AFA Journal, a publication of the American Family Association.
