Reverend Falwell, national chairman of the Faith and Values Coalition and Moral Majority founder, also labeled the National Organization for Women (NOW) the "National Order of Witches," and called Americans United for Separation of Church and State "an anti-Christ" group.
And at one point on Meet the Press, Dr. Falwell asked James Wallis of Sojourners how, as an ordained minister he could vote for Mr. Kerry, who supports abortion rights.
"I wouldn't vote for my mother if she were pro-choice,"Dr. Falwell said.
Mr. Wallis replied: "Yeah. You endorsing George Bush. That's fine. But you also called - you ordained him. You said all Christians could only vote for him. That's ridiculous. There are Christians who voted for deep reasons of faith for both candidates."
The president of Bob Jones University, a fundamentalist school in South Carolina, has written President Bush to say his re-election shows God has given the nation a reprieve from the agenda of paganism.
"In your re-election, God has graciously granted America--though she doesn't deserve it--a reprieve from the agenda of paganism,"he said.
"You owe the liberals nothing."he said.,"They despise you because they despise your Christ."
On FOX News Channel, Reverend Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America, claimed that President George W. Bush won the 2004 presidential election because God preferred Bush over Senator John Kerry.
On the November 4 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, when co-host Alan Colmes asked Robertson if Bush was"God's choice for president,"Robertson declared that Bush, "has the favor of heaven"and that,"God has honored him."
When Colmes asked if that meant that former President Bill Clinton was also chosen by God, Robertson replied:"I think He [God] wanted to bring America to its knees so we'd start praying harder."
Dr. James Dobson ofFocus on the Family proselytized hard for Bush this last year, organizing huge stadium rallies and using his radio program to warn his 7 million American listeners that not to vote would be a sin.
For all Christians who voted in the recent presidential election, we owe it to our God to insure that not only our Christian-in-the-White-House, but our most prominent Christian leaders remain accountable for the consequences of everything said and done to influence the election's outcome.
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