| Christian Voice (usa) |
Article Index for Christian |
Website Links For Christian |
Information AboutChristian Voice (usa) |
|
Christian Voice is an in the 1970s and 1980s and is currently located in Alexandria, Virginia. {Link without Title} Christian Voice is best known as the originator and developer of the "Congressional Report Card" and the "Candidates Scorecard". Christian Voice pioneered grassroots action through use of the "Church Networking Guide". Christian Voice has been cited in more than 7,000 feature articles in publications such as Newsweek, Time, and U.S. News and World Report and on TV programs such as 60 Minutes, ABC News Special Report, 20/20, and Good Morning America. {Link without Title} HISTORY Founded by Dr. Robert Grant , Gary Jarmin, Howard Phillips , and Richard Viguerie in 1978, Christian Voice recruited Evangelical voters and pioneered the techniques that have enabled the Christian Right gain prominence in government. {Link without Title} Christian Voice was the first of the Christian Right groups, predating the Christian Coalition , American Coalition For Traditional Values , Concerned Women For America , Moral Majority , Family Research Council , and other Christian political groups. At its height, Christian Voice employed hundreds of political organizers including Susan Hirschman , Chief of Staff to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay , Congressman Tom Hagadorn , who chaired the organization for several years, and Tim LaHaye , author of the Left Behind series. Many of the techniques used by current independent and 527 campaigns were originally developed by Christian Voice. {Link without Title} PUBLIC RELATIONS Christian Voice President Gary Jarmin has been involved in the founding of dozens of other public policy organizations including Christian Coalition , Coalition For Religious Freedom , The Seniors Center , and American Council For A Free Asia . In 2004, Christian Voice spent 2.9 million dollars on its Christian Voter Drive. Its website {Link without Title} reports that Christian Voice registered 355,562 new Christian voters in 2004 and turned out 1.2 to 1.5 million voters in its get out the vote efforts. They also distributed 530,000 copies of the grassroots organizing guide "Building the Shining City" see http://www.ShiningCityTheBook.com. MORALITY RATINGS CONTROVERSY The Christian Voice morality rating system for American political figures created controversy when Republican Congressmen Richard Kelly , who was convicted of bribery and corruption in the Abscam scandal, and Dan Crane , who was censured for having a sexual relationship with a teenage congressional page (''see'' Congressional Page Sex Scandal ), received 100% morality ratings, while Friar Robert Drinan , a Catholic priest who was a Democratic member of Congress at the time, received a 0% morality rating. Presumably this number must have been based on the perceived morality of their votes on issues, rather than their own personal morality. PRINCIPALS
QUOTATIONS "Millions of Christians appear to be coming together to form a new powerful force. In the vanguard is Christian Voice…C.V. is being heard in Washington, DC, loud and clear!" — 60 Minutes "Among the largest and most influential of the groups trying to re-establish the nation's Christian foundation in Christian Voice." — Dan Rather , CBS News EXTERNAL LINKS
REFERENCES
|
|
|