Call to Christians…

August 13th, 2010 | By Gina Loudon

I spent the better part of the week in Corporate meetings with Mr. Crawford and the Crawford Broadcasting Company in a meeting of the minds as to how to do our part to defeat the hostile takeover of our beloved Country.

In a phone conference, Mr. Crawford told his talent that it is time to go to the mat. He said that around 50% of Christians don’t even vote, and that it is incumbent upon us to change that in our work over the coming days preceding the election.

The look of passion and inspiration was rampant among the Crawford talent after Mr. Crawford’s remarks, and you could feel the conviction in the room. We launched the first in a series of National roundtable discussions involving why Christians don’t vote, why some Christians vote for liberals, and how to shed light on the truth, and severity of the issue.

World renowned author and speaker, Bill Federer was on my show where he raised a poignant point. If we do not activate and vote in this election, we may never vote in a meaningful election again in our lives.

Our free speech is under attack. Our faith is being taken from us. Our freedom is eroding. Our property is being stolen from us. Control of our family’s healthcare has been removed. We are being lied to, and lied about more than ever in this Nation’s history. Christians are under attack, and all other faiths are being exalted.

They can call us paranoid, but it is only paranoid if they aren’t really out to get you. Make no mistake, they are out to get us.

It is time to understand the black and white details of our Constitution, and the reality of separation of Church and State. It is time to not only ask your pastor to preach the hard truth from the pulpit, but leave the church if he is spineless. Let him know before you go that he won’t have a pulpit to preach from if he carries on in his convenient wimp mode.

It is time to get out of the gutter, stop condoning the malicious, the contentious, the crass, the indecent, and the unholy for the sake of convenience.

For moms–it is time to consider the distraction of soccer games, shopping, and carpool, and commit yourself to shaking Christians awake in time to change the course of history.

For dads–it is time to shake the sports habit, the remote control, and the recliner. Realize your job assigned by God is not monetary provision alone, but also political activism if that is what it’s going to take to win back control of our God-given Nation. If you are a Christian, and you choose to sit in your warm, comfy pew one more Sunday, then the blood of your own children is on your hands, and God isn’t going to bless anything else you do.

Start today. Start now. It is almost too late. Politics can no longer be put aside by Christians as merely a calling, it has become an imperative. For God’s sake, and the sake of all that matters, Christians, wake up!

St. Louis Tea Party ~ April 15th, 2010

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In the Clash of Conservatives, Truth Is the Only Way Forward

March 13th, 2010 | By Gina Loudon

A post entitled “Can Alinsky’s Tactics Work on the Right? Should They?” by Christian Hartsock in Big Journalism, along with local battles between ultra- conservatives and other conservatives over using Alinsky’s tactics to further the cause, brings to light that the matter of “factioning” (breaking apart into rival groups) has become a concern.

As an engaged Republican on the inside of politics for more than a decade now, I have seen pro-life activists faction and thus kill good bills for the sake of credit. I have seen primary candidates lie about other candidates in order to win races they should not have won. I have seen one person’s opinion smack down another conservative’s attempt to do right over side issues irrelevant to the goal. This never produces real winners, and forces duplication of efforts for conservatives fighting the good fight.

The good news is that if conservatives are clashing, that means that the natural law of division is engaging, because there are enough conservatives to fight over how to defeat the left. That is a convenience reserved only for groups that are strong, and winning.

The bad news is that total division at this time would be tragic, maybe even fatal. The right is arguing over whether James O’Keefe’s acting as a pimp to enter ACORN offices to uncover arguably illegal activity was wrong. It seems to me that the show staged by O’Keefe and Hannah Giles was precisely that…staged. Would the ultra-conservative right rebuke a movie or play about the Passion because of the presence of a prostitute? The people in the movie are actors, after all. If we impose the standard of never “acting” to accomplish our goals, we tie our own hands as we proceed in this political battle for our republic. We need to maintain decency, absolutely. If we impose all of our values, clear down to clothing style, on everyone who labels himself a conservative, we lose our size and might. More importantly, we lose our ability to mentor those who aren’t as far along in the establishment of their whole philosophical underpinning.

As we all find our way in this new political era, and do the very best we can to expose leftist journalists, reveal the truth, and to expose corruption, let’s make a commitment to stand united over the basic conservative values we share. If we do not, then we demolish ourselves.

Personal conversations about tactical error, or immaturity, or strategic concerns can be productive and necessary. Publicly attacking those who are fighting for the same values you are is divisive, simplistic, and ultimately destructive.

In the era of citizen journalism, new media, and social media, the discipline of conservatives to remain cohesive will be tested as never before. Liberals know when to “quietly wait to pounce on their piece of pie, and vote as a pack” and they do. That is why they win. Liberals cannot win in the war of ideas because their ideas are not inherently truthful (if you believe in absolute truth)—to successfully deliver the liberal message, you have to group benefits for each segment of your electorate: the pro-choicers, big labor, big government, the anti-war, the class-warfare fear mongers, the moral relativists, the race baiters, and even the banking profiteers all know when to sit down and shut up and wait their turn to get their piece of the pie.

Labor bosses know that many of their members are pro-gun, pro-life, and anti-illegal immigration, and yet they shut them right up when labor issues are on the table. Their papers spend a page or two dogging business and “anti-labor” efforts, and four or five pages on hunting, fishing, and gun-related content. One knows that big labor bosses who dream of a socialist world do not want guns in the hands of their rank and file. They tolerate it, though, so they can garner trust and continue to gain ground. This is the psychology of effective politics.

The trouble is that their issues are about money and pursuit of gain, and conservative issues are based on morality, which requires an understanding of absolute truth, so those of us who believe we have “achieved” an understanding of absolute truth have trouble reconciling our own silence on sin in our ranks.

Perhaps patience and grace can come first, and we can resign ourselves to person-to-person, gentle confrontation, or church-based confrontation if something absolutely needs to be resolved.

If, armed with the new-journalism and new communication tools of this exciting new era, we who agree on the basic tenets of conservatism keep our fire trained on the enemy, and not on one another, we might actually change the world.

Dr. Gina Loudon is a contributing author to big journalism: you can see the article here.