Tag Archives: Ralph Reed

Politico reports: A prominent evangelical advocacy organization plans to significantly ramp up political spending in the 2024 election with one goal in mind: returning Donald Trump to the White House.Faith & Freedom, a conservative-leaning organization, intends to spend $62 million registering and turning out evangelical voters, texting and calling supporters, and door-knocking — $10 million more than it spent four …

Politico reports: Since revelations surfaced that the former football star and self-described “pro-life” Republican had allegedly paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, evangelical Christian leaders in Georgia have banded together to support Walker, as has the Republican Party in general. Walker has staked out a hard-line, “no exceptions” position on abortion. So far, Christian evangelical leaders have not flagged …

The Christian Post reports: With less than two months until the midterm elections, a prominent Evangelical political advocacy nonprofit looks to spend upwards of $40 million to mobilize the Christian vote as Democrats and Republicans vie to take control of both houses of Congress this November. The Faith & Freedom Coalition, a social conservative national grassroots organization headed by longtime …

“If the Christian community doesn’t rise up like it never has in modern political history and if we allow, through our inaction, the left to remove this man from the Oval Office, then we will deserve everything that we get. “If they get the White House back, it will be open season on Christian ministries, on churches, the IRS will …

Politico reports: One of Donald Trump’s most prominent Christian supporters will argue in a book due out before the 2020 general election that American evangelicals “have a moral obligation to enthusiastically back” the president. The book’s author, Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed, became a loyal foot soldier for Trump immediately after he nabbed the Republican presidential nomination in …

The Hill reports: Faith leaders and anti-abortion groups are ramping up their efforts to reelect President Trump, rewarding a president who has become an unlikely hero of the Christian right because of his commitment to socially conservative causes. The Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC) will spend tens of millions of dollars on a voter mobilization effort that aims to register …

The Hill reports: An influential conservative Evangelical group is ramping up its spending on efforts to defend Republican majorities in the November midterms. The Faith and Freedom Coalition, which invested heavily during the 2016 elections, plans to spend nearly $20 million on a voter turnout effort to protect GOP majorities in the fall. “We are going to make a bigger …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump has scheduled a speech addressing religious conservatives around the same time that former FBI director James Comey is expected to testify before Congress. The Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference announced Tuesday that the president had agreed to address the annual gathering Thursday. Faith and Freedom spokesman Lance Lemmonds says the …

“My personal support for Donald Trump has never been based upon shared values, it is based upon shared concerns about issues such as: justices on the Supreme Court that ignore the constitution, America’s continued vulnerability to Islamic terrorists and the systematic attack on religious liberty that we’ve seen in the last 7 1/2 years.” – Hate group leader Tony Perkins. …

Next month Donald Trump will meet with many of the well-known Christian leaders that want you dead or imprisoned. Via Right Wing Watch: Trump, who has already recruited a variety of far-right activists and conspiracy theorists to his campaign, is set to take part in a convening organized by Ben Carson, a former rival turned campaign surrogate, aimed at bringing …

Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Conference is underway in DC and according to hate group leader Brian Brown, a bomb threat has cleared out the venue. Eight of the twelve declared GOP presidential candidates are scheduled to speak during the conference but it’s not yet known if any were on the premises when the alleged bomb threat came in. More …

Disgraced Christian activist Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition will hold its sixth annual “Road To Majority” conference this week in Washington DC. Confirmed speakers include eight of the eleven declared GOP presidential candidates, as well as notorious crackpot figures Todd Starnes, the Benham brothers, and Michael Medved. Not yet listed as attending are Huckabee, Santorum, and Pataki, however still …

At the Faith & Freedom Coalition convention.

Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition is having its “Road To Majority” convention in DC this weekend and they’ve apparently placed Obama urinal cakes in the men’s restrooms. Praise! Glory! Speakers include Crazy Eyes, Herman Cain, and the usual cast of crazies. Some had speculated that NOM scheduled their hate march for yesterday in order to draw attendance and speakers …

Last night Bill Maher debated former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed about biblical literalism.  Maher pulled out a list of items from the bible and asked Reed to defend them.

On Sunday, Ralph Reed appeared on ABC’s This Week to declare that social science has found “irrefutable” proof that children are better off being raised by a mom and a dad. PolitiFact has rated his claims as totally false. We did find one study funded by conservative organizations as showing gay parents are worse than straight ones, but it’s been …

Rev. Franklin Graham and Ralph Reed appeared on ABC’s This Week today to denounce gay parenting and gay adoption. Reed went all Regnerus and then immediately contradicted himself. “The social science on this is clear,” Reed said. “This isn’t about Vladimir Putin, this is about what’s best for children here in the United States. The social science is irrefutable: a …

Former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed says that the Federal Marriage Amendment, which is still being flogged by the likes of NOM, is effectively dead. Michelangelo Signorile interviewed Reed at CPAC this weekend: Reed, who in his speech at CPAC attacked “left-wing bullies” whom he said forced Gov. Jan Brewer to veto an anti-gay bill in Arizona and railed against …

CNN’s S.E. Cupp and wingnut freak show Ralph Reed tangled last night in a debate about gay marriage and the feuding Cheney sisters. Evan McMurry has the recap: “Isn’t it time that your wing of the Republican Party accept and embrace good Republicans like the Log Cabin Republicans, like GOProud, like Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), like Rob Portman (R-OH)?” Cupp asked. …

Sarah Palin delivered a 20-minute address to an audience of rapt evangelicals today at Ralph Reed’s Faith And Freedom Conference.  Mediaite has a recap: “It seems so Orwellian around here,” Palin said. “Before 1984, terms like ‘leading from behind’ meant following. The other day the White House testified before Congress, bragging that they used the ‘least untruthful statement.’ Where I …