Jerry Falwell, Sr., founding pastor of Thomas Road Baptist church in Lynchburg, virginia; Tim La Haye, pastor of Scott Memorial Baptist church in San Diego, california; Charles Stanley, pastor of the First Baptist church in Atlanta, georgia; D. James Kennedy, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian church in Fort Lauderdale, florida; and Greg J. Dixon, founding pastor of the Indianapolis (indiana) Baptist temple co-found the Moral Majority.  Among the Moral Majority’s goals are:

  • Imposition of Christian family values on non-believers;
  • Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty;
  • Banning of abortion on demand;
  • Continued intolerance for sexual privacy; and
  • Legalization of prayer in government-run public schools.

       These are in violation of one the central tenets of Christianity: the Golden Rule.  Although, the Moral Majority is opposed to abortion on demand, which it sees as murder—a crime with an identifiable victim.

       NOTE: At the time of the founding all five of these institutions were 501(c)3, Federally chartered, non-profit corporations, as opposed to new testament Churches, which retained the Article I of Amendment Freedoms of Religion, Speech and Assembly.

       Question: In its decade-long existence did the Moral Majority ever advocate basing its political positions on the Golden Rule?

       [added 10/9/2020]

Subsequent Events:

8/9/1983                    6/10/1989                    4/13/2004

References:

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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