“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote…that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” –Samuel Adams

Calvin Coolidge…said, “If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government… The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.”

Of the 52 million voter-eligible Evangelical Christians in America, 10 million were not registered to vote for the 2006 Election, and over 20 million who were registered, did not vote…Our absence from the voting booth has contributed greatly to the moral, spiritual, economic, and political disintegration of America.

Too often, Christians are being misled about participation of their churches in the elective process. …the Internal Revenue Service has specifically stated that “activities intended to encourage people to participate in the election process, such as voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives, would not be prohibited political campaign activity if conducted in a nonpartisan manner.”

“We Christians are commanded by Christ Himself to be ‘salt and light’ to the culture in which we live, and Voting is an important aspect of that duty,” writes David Crowe, the Founder and President of Restore America.

…Crowe states, “Voting is our minimal citizenship responsibility, a stewardship and a duty as salt and light Christians.”

[Editor’s note: This article is incomplete. The source for this document was originally published on postchronicle.com – however, the original URL is no longer available.]