Fun_People Archive
27 Jan
Family Values Survey
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 19:12:19 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: Family Values Survey
[ Here's your 58 cent exercise in citizenship. The following survey is
apparently being sent to carefully selected members of the religious right
by Dr. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries. Many other groups fear
that this poll may turn out a little lopsided.
If you would like to help the poll accurately represent your beliefs
and interests, print it out, fill it in, and mail it in. But that's only
the first 29 cents. Some cynics believe that the pollsters at Coral Ridge
Ministries may not be completely accurate in their tallies, so a second
address has been included with instructions to mail a duplicate of your
completed survey form to a second organization, Family Traditions For All,
whose figures can be used as a cross-check. That's the second 29 cents.
Now that's a deal. Where else can you get both an exercise in
citizenship AND some change for your buck? (Did I mention that I used to
work on Madison Avenue?) -psl]
From: vangogh.CS.Berkeley.EDU!bostic (Keith Bostic)
From: ME Hunter <lee@asylum.sf.ca.us>
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Dr. D. James Kennedy
Coral Ridge Ministries
January 3, 1994
Dear Christian Friend,
America needs to hear your voice!
Our national, spiritual, educational, business and governmental
leadership is moving purposefully forward with policies that are
moving our country further away from its Christian foundations than
ever before. It is imperative, my friend, that we raise our voices
against the fog of bureaucratic double-talk and liberal dogma
saturating this country.
The first few months of the new year will be filled with predictions
and poll results that claim to represent national opinion. Many well-
intentioned people will even come to accept these published results as
absolute truth -- when in fact, our Christian viewpoint is missing
from them.
If we do not take the time to speak for ourselves, other voices will
claim to speak for us -- including the professional pollsters,
politicians, the news media, newspapers and liberal activist groups.
That's why you will find your 1994 State of the Nation Survey
enclosed. Please take a few minutes right now to complete all 21
questions and return it to me in the enclosed, specially marked
envelope.
I, for one, want my voice to be counted, and I hope to add yours and
many, many others together to open the ears of this country's people
before it is too late. With the courts, executive branch officials and
other opinion leaders so favorably tuned to liberal and radical
doctrine, someone must bring the Christian viewpoint as a priority to
this nation.
Please return your completed survey quickly. During the first few
months of the new year, the news media, business and other leaders are
particularly sensitive to poll results. Our combined voices will have
added impact if we can tabulate and distribute our results as soon as
possible.
Each question on your State of the Nation survey is new for 1994. In
the past we maintained some of the same questions from year to year,
but in the second year of this new administration, the number of
critical issues is so great, we felt we had to begin anew. But the
impact we can have on this nation's opinion leaders is in your hands
and those of other Coral Ridge Ministries' friends. Our Survey
results, backed up by thousands and thousands of voices -- including
yours and mine -- will be so commanding it cannot be ignored. 1994
will be a year of assessing the progress of the country under its
increased non-Christian influence and we don't want the news media to
blanket the nation with the message that "all's well."
For maximum effectiveness, our 1994 State of the Nation Survey results
will be distributed to:
* The White House Staff, the President, the Cabinet and other
opinion leaders
* Opinion leaders in Congress
* Major national news magazine editorial departments
* Broadcast officials of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN
* Major city newspapers
* Leading Christian publications
Most importantly, we will blanket the country with our results through
the Coral Ridge Ministries Sunday morning broadcast hour on 365
stations, reaching millions of households and also through our Truths
That Transform daily radio broadcast heard over 350 stations.
There is absolutely no reason that we, as Christians, must be treated
as a "great, silent majority" or that godliness and the fight for
religious freedoms should be deemed important only to old-fashioned,
Bible-thumping fanatics. When there is confusion, it is possible for
Satan to move in and seize a great advantage. Today, I see not only
confusion, but a real lack of moral conviction in all kinds of
leadership. And I firmly believe -- Satan does not overlook
opportunities like this.
If the biased news media, the slanted broadcasting industry, or
special interest groups "speak out" for America without being
challenged, the results will be disastrous. It is imperative that ALL
sides of the issues be presented, or ungodliness will run rampant and
unopposed. Christian views concerning health care, the impact on the
family and the church of taxes, medically-assisted suicide, the impact
of easier to obtain abortions, access to Christian education,
homosexuality as a right, the sex education of our teens to include a
condom in every pocket, the continuing glorification of secular
humanism, etc., must be heard.
We must reclaim our country, one heart at a time -- and the
distribution of our 1994 Survey results will be a public testimony to
the power God's people can have when they band together and speak as
one for biblical principals. Believe me, our 1994 battle for spiritual
renewal and religious freedom will not be easy. Too many of our
enemies are parading like roaring lions ready to devour all of us who
dare to oppose them.
Special interest groups would rejoice greatly if Christians would be
silent on the moral implications of abortion, euthanasia, medically-
assisted suicide, pornography and homosexuality. There are other well-
funded liberal organizations who have done everything possible to draw
America from a Christ-centered viewpoint. They would like nothing more
than to see ministries like ours silenced. If Coral Ridge Ministries
were to go off the air, they would see it as a great victory. Our
enemies want us to be confused and without specific direction. This
makes it even more painful when I hear well-meaning Christians say
their "opinions probably don't count." Too many have simply lost
confidence in what ONE motivated person can do. And when people lose
confidence, then positive meaningful action stops. We, as Christians,
become immobilized and Satan can exercise evil to the fullest extent.
Together we can and we must make our opinion leaders and the public
aware of what the Bible says about the issues of the day. Please fill
in your 1994 Survey, and return it in the specially marked "Survey
Tabulation" envelope today. I'm counting on you to help all you
possibly can. Please believe me that you, as one person, can make a
real difference. Don't be frustrated by the opposition...you DO count!
May God bless you as we labor together to confront our enemies and
make our Christian views known. We can help shape our nation's
priorities -- with Christ as the center!
For God and Country,
D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.
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| 1994 State of the Nation Survey 1994 |
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| |
| Please complete the following survey, and mail to: |
| |
| Dr. D. James Kennedy |
| Coral Ridge Ministries |
| P.O. Box 407132 |
| Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33340-7132 |
| |
| Write "State of the Nation Survey Enclosed" on the |
| upper left hand corner of the envelope. |
| |
| |
| And, to keep Dr. Kennedy accountable to the results |
| of his survey, please send a duplicate of your |
| completed survey to: |
| |
| 1994 Survey |
| Family Traditions For All |
| Suite 156 |
| 15127 N.E 24th St. |
| Redmond, WA 98052-5547 |
| |
| Any personal or contact information, if included, |
| will be kept strictly condfidential. |
| |
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| 1994 State of the Nation Survey 1994 |
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From: _________________________
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1. Do you think American families are weakened by over-taxation?
Yes No Undecided
2. Would you be willing to pay additional taxes for more prisons and
police to comply with the biblical mandate to punish crime?
Yes No Undecided
3. Is government controlled health care consistent with biblical
principals.
Yes No Undecided
4. Does federal funding of abortion under every circumstance violate
the Christian conscience?
Yes No Undecided
5. If health-care rationing were to occur, do you think the elderly
and unborn would be placed at greater risk?
Yes No Undecided
6. Do you believe that suicide or "medically assisted" suicide is an
acceptable moral option for someone facing a terminal illness?
Yes No Undecided
7. Do you believe that legalized gambling (lotteries, horse/dog racing
and casinos) is a moral way to raise tax revenues?
Yes No Undecided
8. Should the National Endowment for the Arts continue to use your tax
dollars to fund lesbian homosexual art?
Yes No Undecided
9. Do you believe that sex education courses that teach "safe sex" and
the use of condoms encourage immoral behavior?
Yes No Undecided
10. Should abstinence-based sex-education courses be allowed in the
public schools?
Yes No Undecided
11. Are you in favor of voluntary prayer in the public schools?
Yes No Undecided
12. Do you favor educational choice: Giving parents a voucher or tax
credit to be used by parents to pay the tuition at the school of
their choice -- public or private?
Yes No Undecided
13. Do you agree that homosexuals should be granted special rights
based on their sexual preference in the areas of housing and
employment?
Yes No Undecided
14. Do you have confidence that the Social Security Administration
will be able in 20 years to fulfill its duty to meet the promises
made to contributors today?
Yes No Undecided
15. Do you think ministers should speak out more often on today's
pressing national issues?
Yes No Undecided
16. Do you think that local prosecutors should more vigorously
prosecute adult bookstore owners under anti-obscenity laws?
Yes No Undecided
17. Do you believe there is a link between pornography and sexually
violent crime?
Yes No Undecided
18. Do you believe that Christians are being discriminated against in
the national news media?
Yes No Undecided
19. Do you believe Christians are being well-represented in the media?
Yes No Undecided
20. Do you think Christians should be more involved in the political
process?
Yes No Undecided
21. Which two of the following issues concern you most:
Tax increases Special rights for gays
Health care reforms Federal deficit spending
Loss of religious freedom Abortion/mercy killing
Other_________________________________________________
22. Additional comments:______________________________________
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