Conservative Christian “pro-family” groups Focus on the Family affiliates hailed Donald Trump’s election victory and said they count on his support to advance their agenda over the next four years.

“I think evangelicals are clearly closer to the vision that Donald Trump has laid out,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. Perkins told CBN that a second Trump administration would be “much better for evangelicals and their ability to live out their faith to impact this country and the world.”

“Our work has just begun,” Perkins said.

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“The 2024 election should not be the finish line for Christians in America,” Perkins wrote to X. “I pray that this will be a starting point. It is time for the church to show up. Our suffering nation needs a revival that only God can provide.”

We shouldn’t think that Trump is The FRC’s Owen Strachan said the election meant it was game over in the political arena. “No, it means the game has started.”

Focus President Jim Daly said: “encouraged“With Trump’s victory,” but not because of partisan cheerleading.

“The result confirms that American families are hungry to live in a country where they can raise their children in a physically safe, economically viable environment and where mom, dad, and children can worship God without apology,” Daly said. “They believe that parents, not politicians, have the authority to direct and direct their children’s education. They believe their daughters should not be afraid of men in the locker room or confront them at a women’s sporting event. “They are tired of politicians complicating common sense in order to confuse and advance an anti-family agenda.”

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The James Dobson Family Institute acknowledged: “Over the next four years, freedom of expression and religion will be strengthened rather than undermined. Parental rights will be defended and the US/Israel alliance will be strengthened. … Let us pray for the spread of conservative policies.”

Single Focus article He compared Trump’s use of “social media and alternative news sources” such as Joe Rogan’s podcast to James Dobson’s successful use of alternative media in creating Focus on the Family. “Those with a powerful Christ-filled message will find a way to bring the news to those with willing ears to hear it,” the article said.

“Pro-family” groups attributed Trump’s victory to successful Christian get-out-the-vote efforts and more than $200 million spent on an election. advertising campaign “Kamala is for them; President Trump is for you.” A progressive group called the campaign “$134 per transgender personin the USA

“Many pollsters say: “This issue alone was definitive,” he said. Craig DeRochePresident of the Family Policy Alliance, Focus’ public policy partner in 41 states.

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“Republicans finally overcame their squeamishness. For whatever reason, they couldn’t talk about the Left saying in 2022 that boys should go to girls’ locker rooms,” DeRoche said in an interview with FRC’s Perkins.

“What really made the difference in this election compared to 2020 is that many Christian organizations, such as the Family Policy Alliance, the Family Research Council and others, made a concerted effort to reach out to the estimated 32 million Christians who participated in the 2020 election,” DeRoche said. .

“Exit polls show Trump The most vibrant support came from Evangelical Christians,” said an article in FRC. Washington Stand. FRC says 81 percent of evangelicals voted for Trump, an increase from 2016 and 2020.

Anti-abortion groups also cited voter mobilization as a major factor in Trump’s victory. Students for Life Action Volunteers worked in 156 primaries and reached voters in 12 states in the general election.

“We are able to document that approximately 24,000 approved ideas have changed through outreach,” SFLA Action President Kristan Hawkins told an FRC program.

Trump stayed away He took up the issue of abortion in his campaign, erasing pro-life principles from the GOP platform for the first time in decades, but SFLA Action remains confident he will make the issue a priority. “President Trump says he wants to end federal interference with abortion, and we can do that,” Hawkins said.

“Americans… re-elected the most pro-life president in American history,” said FRC’s Mary Szoch. “The opportunity to build a culture of life in America is great, and we cannot waste it.”

Alliance Defending Freedom, a powerful conservative legal group founded by James Dobson and other religious right leaders in question“We expect this new administration to offer new opportunities to reverse many of the harmful policies of the Biden era,” including “broad attacks on some of our most fundamental freedoms.”

In his statement after the election, ADF said it envisions “three key ways a second Trump administration could advance freedom for every American”:

• “Rejecting government censorship: It is imperative that the United States protect the sacred right to free speech.”
• “Rooting out dangerous gender ideology: Denying the fact that we are created male and female has caused immeasurable harm.”
• “Abolition of the administrative state: The rule of law must be strengthened and the integrity of our judiciary must be protected.”

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ADF President Kristen Wagoner He is said to be among Trump’s potential picks for a new Supreme Court justice, despite having no judicial experience and no court openings.

Before the election, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was among evangelicals who amplified Trump’s claims that the 2024 election was rigged. Perkins claimed that as many as 2.7 million undocumented immigrants plan to vote illegally.

“Leftists want to unconstitutionally give non-citizens the right to vote in our elections to weaken the power of your vote and shore up their power in local, state and federal offices,” said Perkins. in question.

The Heritage Foundation agreed: He claimed that “the evidence is clear” that non-citizens were voting.

But after Trump’s win, such claims dried up, with some groups claiming their “election integrity” efforts prevented fraudsters from rigging the election, this time for a Democrat.

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