Evangelicals at the Crossroads
If evangelicals stay home, the hard left wins. If not, it loses.
by Rod D. Martin
November 3, 2006
They were America's forerunners, our Pilgrim and Puritan fathers who championed majority rule, unalienable rights, and rule of law over divine right of kings.
They were the ministers and the tradespeople, the lawyers and the doctors, people from every walk of life who dared to declare, fight for, and win their independence from the mighty British Empire.
They were the backbone of our Revolution and when we drafted our Constitution. It was their ideas on ordered liberty that carried the day.
They almost single-handedly created the abolitionist movement, and every movement for social reform bore their imprint in some fashion.
Until the 20th century, their views dominated American politics and culture, making our country -- notwithstanding its continued imperfections and theirs -- the most dynamic, progressive and free in all of history.
Their withdrawal from culture and politics in the last century paved the way for the rise of Big Government, creeping total…