Looks like young evangelicals are making trafficking in slaves their spiritual focus. For seven years I have been saying Jesus came to restore the Jubilee and free slaves.
The dogs of the Redneck Menace and Tea Party Neo-Confederate Traitors, have had their day! Get out of my families Abolitionist Party! Get out you drunken Devil Dogs of Satan!
Above is a pic of me and my lover, Dottie Witherspoon, of South Carolina where both our ancestors owned slaves. Dottie descends from Signer, John Witherspoon, and John Knox. She became a member of the Light House Ranch after we broker up. Dottie went with me to the Meher Baba retreat in her State. We were pioneers in regards to religious freedom. Our kindred fought under Francis Marion in the War of Independence.
Jon the Nazarite
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/i-am-a-jubilee-nazarite/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/jubilee-of-the-zulu-zionists/
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/the-joyous-jubilee/
“Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals and longtime spiritual adviser to Tim Pawlenty, said trafficking has migrated from a niche concern among liberally-minded “social justice Christians” to an increasingly prevalent platform plank for Evangelicals across the political spectrum. And while the nonpartisan nature of the cause has largely kept the cable news bookers at bay, Anderson predicted it could become the defining issue of politically active Evangelicals in years and decades to come.”
On Jan. 2, 2012, more than 40,000 Christian college students gathered at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for a four-day “spiritual awakening” led by the well-known Evangelical pastor Louie Giglio. The conference was studded with worship rock anthems and energized sermons designed to marshall the faithful — but the cause they were rallying around had nothing to do with same-sex marriage or abortion. Instead, the sons and daughters of Jerry Falwell’s “Moral Majority” were raising money and organizing grassroots campaigns aimed at ending global human trafficking.
The event received only marginal press coverage, but the White House took notice. A few weeks later, senior Obama adviser David Plouffe sat down in the White House with Joshua Dubois and Michael Wear, the president’s ambassadors to America’s believers. Plouffe had seen data that suggested young Evangelical voters were up for grabs in the upcoming election, and he wanted to know how the president could appeal to that demographic, according to someone with direct knowledge of the meeting. They discussed a range of tactics, and at the end of the meeting Plouffe asked which single issue could make the biggest difference in courting young Christians.
“Human trafficking,” Wear responded.
On the heels of another bruising blow to the religious right’s political agenda — with conservative Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoing a bill Wednesday night aimed at protecting religious business owners who don’t want to provide services for same-sex weddings — many young Evangelicals, conflicted about the culture wars of the past, are working to make the issue of trafficking a top priority for their movement. And politicians on both sides of the aisle, eager to win their support while steering clear of polarizing social issues, are beginning to respond.
Since the 2012 conference, where students reportedly donated more than $3 million to the anti-trafficking cause, churches and campus Christian groups across the country have joined the “End It” movement, an awareness campaign armed with alarming statistics like a 2013 State Department estimate that 27 million people are currently enslaved throughout the world. Among activists there’s no one definition of human trafficking — the commonly cited State Department statistic includes both people enslaved in the sex trade and in forced labor. In addition to spreading the word — Christians throughout the world, including Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, drew a red “X” on their hands Thursday for “Shine A Light On Slavery Day” — advocates are calling for more aggressive government action, and pressuring corporate hotel chains and airlines to train their employees to recognize trafficking victims.
Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals and longtime spiritual adviser to Tim Pawlenty, said trafficking has migrated from a niche concern among liberally-minded “social justice Christians” to an increasingly prevalent platform plank for Evangelicals across the political spectrum. And while the nonpartisan nature of the cause has largely kept the cable news bookers at bay, Anderson predicted it could become the defining issue of politically active Evangelicals in years and decades to come.
“I’m not sure it’s to the forefront yet,” Anderson said. “I don’t think it’s anywhere near peaking.”
As the issue has gone mainstream in conservative Christianity, politicians have begun working it into their speeches and legislative agendas. Shortly after his aides discussed it in early 2012, Obama gave a shout-out to anti-trafficking efforts at the National Prayer Breakfast, praising young Christians who “worship the God who sets the captives free and work to end modern slavery.” And just weeks before the election, at the Clinton Global Initiative, Obama spoke at length about the issue, in remarks that one adviser called “the longest speech on slavery of any president since Abraham Lincoln.”
Baptist pastor and ABPnews/Herald columnist Amy Butler joined nationally known evangelical leaders including author Brian McLaren and blogger Rachel Held Evans in an open letter opposing laws to permit businesses to discriminate against homosexuals like the one vetoed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Feb. 26.
Amy ButlerThe Arizona law, which would have allowed businesses that asserted their religious beliefs the right to deny service to gay and lesbian customers, faced opposition from powerful groups including the National Football League, which threatened to move the 2015 Super Bowl from Phoenix if the measure passed.
Signatories including Alan Chambers, the former president of Exodus International, and Ted Haggard, pastor of St. James Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., said Christians should oppose similar laws in Kansas, Georgia and Florida.
“To support such a law is to fail to walk in the footsteps of Jesus who was known for associating with and loving those who were considered outcasts by his society,” the letter said. “Serving people with whom we disagree is a central calling for those who follow Jesus.”
The signers said many Millennials are leaving the church because of “uncompassionate postures that many of our leaders in the evangelical church continue to take on many important social issues.”
“We are saddened by the lack of Christ-likeness displayed by our leaders and deeply desire to see our churches return to speaking and living like Jesus,” the letter said. “We believe that the time has come for church leaders to stop allowing fear to dictate their theological and social positions, and start acting in the radical love of Jesus.”
Butler, senior pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, is one of 14 clergy, theologians and thought leaders from across the spectrum expressing the view that “the current position that many Evangelical leaders are taking on issues of discrimination toward the gay community directly contradicts that posture of radical love and grace that Jesus so powerfully embodied in his life and teachings.”
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