PRESS RELEASE

(9/25/2006)

"Red Letter" Pseudo-Evangelicals try to Mislead America

WWJD? Not promote abortions or ban nativity scenes

Washington, DC -- The Chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition said today the founding of a liberal “Red Letter” Christian group is just another attempt by “pseudo-evangelicals” to distort what is truly evangelical. They are not Bible-based in their theology.

The term ‘‘Red Letter’’ comes from highlighting in red the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

“They’ve tried to train liberals to speak like Evangelical Christians, and they’ve even stated the obvious argument with great passion and bluster that you don’t have to be a Republican to be a Christian,” said Rev. Louis P. Sheldon. “The only thing they have left to do is to actually start acting on their faith as Christians, not just talking about it.

“Every election cycle the same old tired groups attack the huge majority of Evangelical Christians who carry their values into the voting booth with them, pulling the levers for those who are pro-life, pro-marriage and defenders of traditional Biblical values. The liberals are too busy giving ‘choices’ to everyone, but the innocent and the unborn, and cheering on the ACLU as it tries to keep crèches out of the public’s view and religion out of the public square.

“This most recent ‘Red Letter’ ploy is very telling because it somehow suggests that the Bible contains some sections which are more important than others. You cannot play cafeteria selection with the Holy Scriptures.

“These pseudo-evangelicals would have you believe that the Bible only contains the Word of God. True Evangelicals believe that the Bible -- each word, each sentence -- is the Word of God. This is how you can tell the difference between these pseudo-evangelicals and true Evangelicals.

“It is appalling that the usual liberal suspects such as Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo keep trying to find new mud to sling against the majority of America’s Evangelical citizens, hoping that some day they will find something that sticks.

“No matter how they try to dress up as pseudo-evangelicals, they still come back to the usual empty rhetoric about ‘church and state’ and how we cannot fight to protect the unborn unless we do something first about global warming, floodplains, the hole in the ozone or other liberal political favorites.

“No child has ever been killed by global warming. Homosexual marriage and adoption have done more to harm the American landscape than all of the missing floodplains and ozone holes.

“There are reasons why liberals would rather talk about the ozone layer than abortion. The American people know and understand this, and Evangelical Christians are not buying what the liberals are selling. That is why these pseudo-evangelicals and their liberal political allies continue to lose elections and why liberal churches are losing members.

“My suggestion to the ‘Red Letter’ group is they ‘move-on.org’ to their next liberal scam. This one is another failure."

Originally published here.