Gov. Greg Abbott: America deteriorating because Christians aren’t voting
Gov. Greg Abbott said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network this week that America will continue to deteriorate if Christians and their pastors don’t get to the polls and vote.
“Religious liberty from the Bible and the issues that Christians believe in have become hostile in the mainstream politics, and there is one key reason for it,” Abbott told the Network’s chief political correspondent David Brody. “And that’s because the people who attend these congregations or pastor these congregations do not turn out and vote and we are dealing with the consequences by the failure of Christians to go vote.”
Abbott spoke on Monday to a group of pastors gathered in Austin for a two-day political training seminar hosted by the American Renewal Project. Brody was also a speaker at the event, and other media outlets were excluded. GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee also addressed the group, whose aim to get pastors to run for political office.
On its web site, the Texas Renewal Project reports that more than 13,000 pastors have attended the group’s training events since 2005. Founder David Lane told the New York Times in March that his goal was to get 1,000 pastors to run for public office.
Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/08/gov-greg-abbott-america-deteriorating-because-christians-arent-voting.html/
Cross-posted in LBN.
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