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:
References:
WorldNetDaily: A 21st century Moral Majority
www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41434
THE MORAL MAJORITY, 1979-1989 by Dr. Garry Griffith
images.acswebnetworks.com/2017/78/THEMORALMAJORITYeditedpdf2.pdf
Moral Majority
cdm17184.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p17184coll1