You did it!  You made it happen!

All across America, millions of pro-family conservatives flocked to the polls and took part in the most historic US election since the Great Depression.

They came out in support of candidates who responded to their calls for leadership that will stand against an intrusive and big spending government, and for traditional values.

The result demonstrates the true power of America’s largest voting bloc.

In the months leading up to the election, the Christian Coalition leveraged the power of the Internet and social media to educate voters with a combination of online advertising in targeted states and viral online tools that empowered conservative activists.

Within recent months we launched new online tools such as:

• A “Voter Guides” tab for Facebook pages
• A “Donate Your Status” application to promote voter guides on Facebook and Twitter
• A Coalition toolbar for web browsers
• A voter guide widget that enabled supporters to crowd-source voter guide distribution

In the end, our job was to provide the tools.  You provided the manpower.

As a result, we connected with hundreds of thousands of additional conservatives, identified tens of thousands of new activists and our voter guides were seen by millions of voters all across the country. read more »

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year continued and increased the assault on people of faith in their decision on March 10th overturning a lower federal court judge's decision which had dismissed a frivolous lawsuit brought by a teacher against her former church-owned school.  The federal district court judge dismissed the teacher's lawsuit based on "ministerial exception."
 
As the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty says in its request last Friday to the United States Supreme Court that it review the 6th Circuit Court First Amendment-stifling decision:  "The federal courts of appeals have long recognized the 'ministerial exception,' a First Amendment doctrine that bars most employment-related lawsuits brought against religious organizations by employees performing religious functions.  The circuits are in complete agreement about the core applications of this doctrine to pastors, priests, and rabbis."
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Apparently it is never too early for liberals to begin their annual assault on Christmas and Christian values.  This is at the very same time liberals are urging Muslims to build their Ground Zero Mosque almost across the street from where Islamic terrorists killed nearly 3,000 innocent souls on 9-11, the annivesary of which is this coming Saturday.
 
Right outside Washington D.C. in Loudoun County, the board of supervisors is considering a proposal to ban all seasonal holiday displays including Christmas trees, manger scenes, Menorahs, etc. on the grounds of the county courthouse.
 
A group which defends Christians and others in court in religious discrimination cases  --  the Rutherford Institute  --  is speaking out.  Its president, John W. Whitehead, wrote in a letter to the county supervisors that the proposed ban will only serve to heighten community tensions and "could reflect a hostility toward religion on the part of the Board of Supervisors, as well as an intolerance for the diverse makeup of the residents of Loudoun County."
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The voters in Alaska on Tuesday voted for Measure 2, a ballot proposal which would allow parental notication before their teen-age daughter has an abortion.  Alaska now joins 36 other states with a commonsense pro-life law and abortionists will now have to give parents of a minor girl 48 hours notice before performing an abortion on her.

There was a wide margin of victory for Measure 2 in Alaska.  Some 55.5% of Alaskan voters voted for the initiative whereas only 44.4% of voters voted against the measure.  In addition, the Sarah Palin-endorsed Senate candidate, Joe Miller, a West Point graduate and Gulf War I veteran, who ran in the Alaska Republican primary against Senator Lisa Murkowski and apparently has beaten her, credits his victory, in part, to the pro-life voters who voted for Measure 2. read more »

How did your members of Congress vote on some of the most important issues we face today?

We have made it easier to answer that question with our new 2010 Congressional Scorecards, which are now available on our website.  Click here and download your copy today.

Our scorecards rate members of Congress on some of the most important issues that we face today:

issues that are important to our families and to the conservative movement.

Covered issues include:
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On Monday, federal judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. correctly ruled that the Obama administration is not obeying the 1996 law which outlawed the destruction of human embryonic stem cells. In March 2009, the president issued an executive order expanding federal funding of human embryo research.

Judge Lamberth ruled that the federal funding by the Obama administration for such research violated a 1996 law prohibiting federal money for research in which an embryo was destroyed. Today's "The Wall Street Journal" reported that opponents of Obama's federal funding for human embryonic stem cell destruction research said that such research "leads to the destruction of the embryo" which "is tantmount to taking a life, and have opposed such experiments on ethical grounds."

In the article, David Stevens, executive director of the Christian Medical Association is quoted as saying: "People forget that each one of us was an embryo, and if someone destroyed us for biological parts, we wouldn't be around today." He also was quoted by LifeNews.com saying, "This case highlights the harm that diverting federal funds away from proven effective research poses to those patients who are waiting for cures. We are grateful that the Court also recognizes the clarity of the law and the harm that funding illegal and unethical embryo-destroying research poses to ethical researchers." read more »

For the first time in many years, five Democrats earned a 100% rating in the recently published Christian Coalition of America's Congressional Scorecard. One of the possible reasons for this is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a plethora of Democrat votes to play with whenever a key piece of legislation came up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives and she did not need their votes.

One would prefer to think that these Democrats acted out of principle and would have voted the way they did even if one of the Speaker's key pieces of legislation would go down to defeat without their votes. The five Democrats who earned a 100% rating in the 2010 Congressional Scorecard this year are: Congressmen Bobby Bright, 2nd district, Alabama; Travis Childers,1st district, Mississippi; Gene Taylor, 4th district, Mississippi; Dan Boren, 2nd district, Oklahoma; and Lincoln Davis, 4th district, Tennessee. Whatever the reasons for their perfect voting record, Christian Coalition of America commends each of them.

What is also astounding is the fact that there were so many 100% scores and 0% scores in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives revealing a highly partisan Congress. For example, in the Senate, there were 34 Republicans (out of 40 Republicans) with 100% scores (no Democrat Senator earned a score of 100%) and there were 48 Democrats (out of 57 Democrats) who received scores of 0% (no Republican Senator received a score of 0%.) read more »

Congressman Steve King reacted last week to the atheists' attempt to ensure that our nation's motto, "In God We Trust," and the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag are not permanently engraved in the new Capitol Hill Visitors Center (CHVC). Congressman King said: "This lawsuit is another attempt by liberal activists to rewrite history and deny that America's Judeo-Christian heritage is an essential foundation stone of our great nation."  read more »

Thankfully in America, there are still young Americans who are not afraid to strike back at the left-wing's political correctness movement.  And a great example of this occurred last Saturday when several hundred graduating high school seniors stood in protest during their graduation ceremony at Pace High School in Santa Rosa County, Florida because the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had filed a lawsuit against the high school administration claiming the principal and some teachers supported religion.     read more »

Americans' religious rights and First Amendment rights continue to be eroded as evidenced by the jailing of a black pastor from a Berkeley, California church last week. He was the first person convicted -- two months ago -- under Oakland's law preventing pro-life protesters from coming within 8 feet of anyone entering an abortion clinic.

The Union City pastor, Walter Hoye, received a $1,000 fine, 30 days in jail (although in the future pro-lifers can be actually be put in jail for up to two years) and 3 years' probation. This courageous pastor told the judge: "I believe that an unjust law is no law at all." Pastor Hoye even answered Alameda Superior Court Judge Hing's question of whether or not he would abide by an order to stay 100 yards away from the Oakland abortion clinic with a principled "No." read more »