With members and chapters in every state, these organizations have enormous national reach. These top ten Christian Right groups reach an estimated audience of 40 million conservative Christian voters through churches, Christian radio and TV, and direct mail. Using a three-pronged strategy, these groups exercise their power by influencing the Republican Party from within, registering new GOP voters, and, ultimately, backing GOP candidates through biased voter guides. In one example cited in the study, the Christian Coalition recently directed its members to elect antiabortion delegates to this summer's Republican National Convention in San Diego. Virtually all of the groups studied exhibit varying degrees of intolerance, and support the concept of 'a Christian nation', either overtly, by objective, or innuendo.
Democracy works best when the voters represent a broad spectrum of society.
Quite frankly, our leverage goes up as the voting population goes down. Nonprofit's political activities Birmingham, Alabama The Alabama Family Institute, a nonprofit affiliate of Focus on the Family, has apparently stepped over the line into Republican partisan politics. You can forget the social and moral issues and the culture war, it will all be irrelevant if after only one term the conservative dominated Republican Congress is turned out of office. From that point on it will be a war that we cannot win. What we haven't realized is that, trite as it may sound, all public policy is family policy.