{"id":1955883,"date":"2023-06-24T00:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-presidential-candidates-senators-urge-christians-to-fight-for-life-truth\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:06:11","slug":"gop-presidential-candidates-senators-urge-christians-to-fight-for-life-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-presidential-candidates-senators-urge-christians-to-fight-for-life-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senators and Presidential Candidates call on Christians to defend life and truth."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-presidential-candidates-senators-urge-christians-to-fight-for-life-truth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1955883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0624\/046e81ac-59f2-480e-a170-329fe9ca3cc9\/audio.mp3?length=8936109&#038;duration=745\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives waged a 50-year battle to overturn Roe v. Wade, but when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breyer-out-jackson-in-at-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Breyer Out, Jackson In at Supreme Court\">long-sought victory<\/a> in its Dobbs ruling last summer, the dog that caught the car lost its nose for the chase.<\/p>\n<p>In that vacuum, six-of-six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-presidential-candidates-senators-urge-christians-to-fight-for-life-truth\/\" title=\"GOP Senators and Presidential Candidates call on Christians to defend life and truth.\">pro-life ballot measures failed<\/a>, and Democrats blunted an anticipated \u201cred wave\u201d in the 2022 mid-terms by convincing enough voters that the Dobbs ruling is a threat to women\u2019s rights instead of a guarantor of a fundamental human right\u2014the right to life.<\/p>\n<p>That must never happen again, seven presidential candidates and a host of other speakers vowed on June 23 during the 12th annual Faith &#038; Freedom Coalition Major Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs all of you gather here on this momentous anniversary, it\u2019s important for us to remember the battle for life is far from over,\u201d former vice president and 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Mike Pence said. \u201cWe have not come to the end of our cause. We\u2019ve simply come to the end of the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence is one of 11 2024 GOP presidential primary candidates slated to speak\u2014seven June 23 and four June 24\u2014during the FFC\u2019s three-day \u201c2023 Road To Majority\u201d conference, regarded as the largest annual assembly of Christian political advocates and conservative organizers in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>But the 3,000 activists in attendance, and the many thousands viewing via livestream, weren\u2019t there to hear what the candidates would do; the candidates were there to tell them how they\u2019d get it done.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5353252\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/23\/id5353252-06232023-DSC03572-Ron-DeSantis-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<h2>Goal: Federal Abortion Law<\/h2>\n<p>Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) early in the day framed the discussion: A federal ban on abortion no later than 15 weeks and a Christian-led existential fight to preserve \u201ctruth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, we should be happy. Finally, after 50 years, we got Roe v. Wade off the books. But I\u2019m telling you right now, the war, the fight, is not over,\u201d Graham said. \u201cThe war is not won. The fight continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives, especially Christians, have a misplaced discomfort about the separation of church and state, a reluctance to rally around their faith in debates over public policy, Graham and Hawley said in their addresses.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s no choice now. Progressives are exerting \u201cwoke\u201d ideologies\u2014their \u201creligion\u201d\u2014through Congressional Democrats, the Biden administration, the courts, and the media, they said.<\/p>\n<p>With the introduction of the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act in Congress, Graham said, progressive and liberals are trying to impose their religion, their ideology, on the rest of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir bill would overturn every state\u2019s pro-life laws. They would set, as a national standard, abortion on demand up to the moment of birth using taxpayer dollars,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Christians should not be shy about using religion as a bonding force with other people of faith in lobbying for a federal bill restricting abortion nationwide, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prefer federalism, but federalism doesn\u2019t require me to sit on the sidelines and watch our nation become China,\u201d Graham said. \u201cTo those who believe there\u2019s no role for the unborn in Washington, you are wrong. Our Constitution does not require me, a United States senator, to sit on the sidelines and not be able to say anything about a baby being aborted in California in the ninth month. I will not do that. That is not required by our Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Constitution is about life, liberty and pursuit of happiness right?\u201d he said. \u201cHow can you pursue happiness if you\u2019re dead?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5317201\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/07\/id5317201-Chris-Christie-GettyImages-1496498086-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<h2>Pro-Life For Life<\/h2>\n<p>That theme was reflected in ensuing speeches by Pence and six other GOP presidential hopefuls\u2014Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Vivek Ramaswamy, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow some you will hear, from this very podium, some who will say that the Supreme Court returned to the issue of abortion only to the states and nothing should be done at the federal level,\u201d Pence said. \u201cThey\u2019ll say continuing the fight to protect life would produce state legislation that is too harsh. Some have even gone on to blame the overturning of Roe vs. Wade for election losses in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let me say from my heart, every Republican candidate for president should support a ban on abortion before 15 weeks as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-pence-calls-for-2024-litmus-test-on-abortion\/\" title=\"Pence urges abortion litmus test for 2024.\">minimum nationwide standard<\/a>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs president,\u201d Hutchinson agreed, \u201cI would fight to make sure taxpayer funds are not used to support abortion. And if Congress acts, I will sign a federal law to restrict abortion as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said as Florida governor he lobbied for and got a heartbeat bill adopted this year. As president, he would continue \u201cpromoting a culture of life\u201d because \u201cit is the right thing to do. Don\u2019t let anyone tell you it isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But being pro-life \u201cdoesn\u2019t end there,\u201d and Christians must lobby Congress and state legislatures for \u201cfamily-friendly policies,\u201d such as those in Florida that have eliminated sales taxes on all baby items.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Christie recalled his two gubernatorial terms tangling with New Jersey\u2019s Democrat-controlled legislature, finding ways to make a pro-life difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor eight years, they sent me Planned Parenthood funding in New Jersey, and for eight years, I vetoed it, and we sustained every one of those vetoes. No Planned Parenthood funding for eight years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But even in states with liberal abortion laws, conservatives and Christians can fight abortion by being pro-life \u201clonger than the nine months in the womb,\u201d Christie said.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting abortion isn\u2019t just about saving lives, it\u2019s about creating lives, Suarez said, including lives like his.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am literally a product of the pro-life movement myself. My parents actually met at a pro-life rally,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have bravely lived their pro-life ethic by raising a family of four, myself and my three sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suarez said it is with \u201cprofound gratitude to God for the celebration of the anniversary of what historians will call the greatest day for defending life in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there is history to be made, and instead of arguing over rights and wrongs, conservatives and Christians can end abortion by passionately advocating for creating life, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many great people will be born in the future that can shape our world?\u201d Suarez asked.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5353616\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/23\/id5353616-06232023-DSC02609-Josh-Hawley-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Who is Going to Lead This Country?\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>As with Graham, Hawley beseeched Christians to get into the fight and not be intimated by separation of church and state fears from inserting their faith into local, state, and national politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Reagan told a group of evangelists 40 years ago this year that the focus of evil in his day was Soviet Marxism,\u201d Hawley said. \u201cWell, now we face a new Marxism that is rising in this country, a cultural Marxism that has infected our universities. It has taken over much of the media, the entertainment industry, and it now totally controls the Democrat Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He compared \u201cnew Marxism\u201d to a religion, one the threatens other religions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe left, they\u2019re always saying \u2018separation of church and state, separation of church and state,\u2019 but here\u2019s the deal: These new Marxists want to give America a new religion. They want to impose on us the religion of \u2018woke.\u2019 It is the religion of transgenderism, critical race theory, and open-borders multiculturalism, and they<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives fought for half a century to reverse Roe v. Wade. However, when the Supreme Court granted their desired win in the Dobbs ruling, they seemed unprepared. 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