Christian Civics - Awaken!

CBS News anchor Elaine Quijano recently interviewed James Carville

This brings us to the 2024 RNC Platform and the challenge facing Evangelical and Pro-life Catholic Christians. From 1984 until now, Pro-life organizations have proposed every presidential cycle suggestions and additions to the platform. Once in a while, they produce a win in a Republican primary. Still, their activity focuses on fundraising, donor development and maintenance, action plans, Capitol Hill visits, the annual GALA, and summer vacations.

President Trump’s appointment of 3 conservative Pro-life justices during his tenure blew the Pro-life organization’s 40-year model to smithereens. On May 10, 2022 - one month before SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs vs. Jackson case - we wrote to the 70 thousand American Renewal Project pastors:

“Evangelicals ought to think through what’s coming soon to their surroundings and prospects. Specifically, with the U.S. Supreme Court looking as if it may overturn Roe vs. Wade in the Dobbs vs. Jackson case, tremendous pressure will now be applied to state legislators and courts. The battle over snuffing out the lives of children in utero will move from the Judiciary to the Legislative Branch of government, hence to a place where success or failure is determined by grassroots, precinct-level organizing.

“Christians will have to take their Civics game to a new level. Somebody’s values are going to reign supreme in the public square. If Evangelical and Pro-life Catholic Christians stay home from the voting booth - in a presidential year, no less than half of all Christians unfortunately refrain from being registered and voting - then those ‘who speak perverse things, who leave the paths of uprightness’ ... will elect their candidates, create and pass legislation, bringing about anarchy as its ‘natural consequence and fitting punishment’ to a spiritually apathetic nation.”

Since Dobbs vs. Jackson, four states have passed a constitutional amendment explicitly declaring that their constitution does not secure or protect the right to abortion or allow the use of public funds for abortion. The progressive Guttmacher Institute notes:

• Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have laws that protect the right to abortion.

• Three states have protections for the right to abortion in their state constitutions.

• Four states and the District of Columbia have codified the right to abortion throughout pregnancy without state interference.

• Twelve states explicitly permit abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person.

• Eleven states and the District of Columbia have protections for abortion providers, and in some cases, individuals who support patients, from the reach of out-of-state abortion restrictions and bans.6

Pro-life state-based and national organizations would do wise to adapt to the new world, and the cottage industry they’ve created must give way to progress. Otherwise, they will float off into the sunset. As John Adams, America’s second president, used to say: “Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

Modern American Christendom has provided very little strategic thought and action to confront the false gods of secularism dominating the culture and indoctrination of our youth. As such, Christians will have to substantially increase their civic government commitment and involvement if they wish freedom and liberty to be passed on to their children and grandchildren.

Still and all, Gideons and Rahabs are now stepping into the public square.

David Lane

American Renewal Project

1. x.com/EricAbbenante/status/1809291538049957940

2. therightscoop.com/breaking-bidens-230-million-aid-pier-for-gaza-is-set-to-be-permanently-dismantled/

3. www.instagram.com/p/C89w6V_Oj8i/?locale=zh-hans

4-5. www.wsj.com/articles/how-dei-becomes-discrimination-academia-higher-education-research-race-1e411be4

6. www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/abortion-policy-absence-roe