Christian Voice (USA)

There is an unconnected organization called Christian Voice in the UK

Christian Voice is an American conservative Christian right advocacy group. In 1980, this group had 107,000 members including 37,000 pastors from 45 denominations. [1] It is a project of the American Service Council. Christian Voice was headquartered at the Heritage Foundation in the 1970s and 1980s and is currently located in suburban Washington, D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia [2].

Christian Voice is best known as the originator and developer of the "Congressional Report Card" and the "Candidates Scorecard". It helped organized grassroots action through use of its "Church Networking Guide".

History

Founded by Dr. Robert Grant, Gary Jarmin and Colonel Donor in 1978.

Christian Voice was the first of the Christian Right groups, pre-dating the Christian Coalition, American Coalition for Traditional Values, Concerned Women for America, Moral Majority, Family Research Council, and other Christian political groups. Christian Voice has employed hundreds of political organizers, including Susan Hirschman, Chief of Staff to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Congressman Tom Hagadorn, who chaired the organization for several years, and Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series.^{[citation needed]} Many of the techniques used by current independent and 527 political campaigns were originally developed by Christian Voice.^{[citation needed]}

Voter drives

Christian Voice President Gary Jarmin has been involved in the founding of dozens of other public policy organizations, including the Christian Coalition, Coalition for Religious Freedom, The Seniors Center, and American Council for a Free Asia.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, Christian Voice spent 2.9 million dollars on its Christian Voter Drive. Its website ChristianVoterDrive.com reports that Christian Voice registered 355,562 new Christian voters in 2004 and turned out 1.2 to 1.5 million voters in its get out the vote efforts. They also distributed 530,000 copies of the grassroots organizing guide "Building the Shining City".^{[citation needed]}

Principals

• Robert Grant Founder, Chairman (1978-1998; 2003-2008) [3]
• Gary Jarmin, President

External links

• Christian Voice Website
• Christian Voice sponsored Christian Voter Drive
• Building The Shining City grassroots organization guide published by Christian Voice

References