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FL FFC Featured at the Liberty & Justice for All Rally

Florida Faith and Freedom was proud to be a co-sponsor for the Liberty & Justice for All rally in St. Petersburg, Fl.

On January 21, 2012 nearly 300 Tampa Bay residents assembled on the St. Petersburg Waterfront to celebrate the key features that make America the envy of the world.  The Liberty and Justice Rally featured local pastors, civic leaders, and activists sharing the principles and goals needed at this crucial time in our history.

Faith & Freedom Tampa bay Area Chairman, Regina Brown, addressed the new Florida voting registration laws.  Regina shared that Faith and Freedom is a Florida Registered 3rd party Organization and will be working with Florida tea parties, churches and civic organizations in their voter registration efforts.  The response was welcomed with several groups signing up that day to get started.

If you’re in Florida, be sure to “LIKE” the Florida Faith & Freedom page on Face Book to keep up with events in your area or schedule a voter registration event.

Pres. Tele-Townhall w/ Mitt Romney Tomorrow

On Wednesday, January 25, at 7:50 PM EST., we will be holding our next Presidential Series National Tele-Town Hall for our members and supporters.

Join us as we discuss the future of our country and how we can work together to restore America’s greatness and founding principles. Joining us for a special Q&A session is former Governor and 2012 GOP Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney and our founder and chairman Ralph Reed.

Mitt Romney has been an effective leader in both the business and public service worlds. Elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he presided over a dramatic reversal of state fortunes and sustained economic growth, balancing the state budget without raising taxes, creating tens of thousands of new jobs, and enacting education reform.

With the 2002 Winter Olympics mired in controversy and facing serious financial crisis, Romney was asked to become President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. In his three years in Salt Lake, Romney erased a $379 million operating deficit, organized 23,000 volunteers, and galvanized the community spirit.

Prior to his service at the Olympics, Romney had a distinguished career in business. From 1978 to 1984, he was a Vice President at Bain and Company, the Boston-based management consulting firm. In 1984, Romney founded Bain Capital, a highly successful investment company that founded, acquired or invested in hundreds of companies.

Governor Romney and his wife Ann have been married for more than 40 years and have five sons, five daughters-in-law, and fourteen grandchildren.

*Call information: (877)-229-8493, Access Code:18595

Thank you for supporting the Faith & Freedom Coalition as we turnout the biggest block of social conservative and Tea Party friendly voters to the polls in the history of presidential elections.

FOX News: Obama’s War on Religion

The Obama administration rejected a request from U.S. Catholic bishops to be exempt from regulations under Obamacare to offer contraceptive services, including abortifacients.

C-Span: The Republican Primary And Faith

FFC Chair Ralph Reed appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” to discuss the SC GOP primary results.

Pictures from South Carolina

FFC Presidential Forum Pictures – Click here to view all of the photos

 

 

 

 

 

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FFC Reception – Click here to view all of the photos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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FFC Prayer Breakfast – Click here to view all of the photos

 

 

 

 

 

Washington Post: Is Rick Santorum a Catholic or an evangelical? Yes.

By David Gibson

The answers help explain not only the political dynamics of the current race, but point to a generational shift from the 1960 campaign, when John F. Kennedy had to reassure evangelicals like Billy Graham that he wasn’t too Catholic to be president.

“Now here we are, 50 years later, and evangelicals are not only willing to vote for Roman Catholic candidates but frankly they are flocking to Roman Catholic candidates” like Santorum and Newt Gingrich, said Ralph Reed, head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and a top evangelical political activist.

“This is a big moment in American religious and political history.”

Both Reed and Hudson note that Santorum’s appeal to conservative Protestants isn’t really — or even mainly — a case of mistaken religious identity. Plenty of evangelicals know Santorum is a practicing Catholic; it’s just that it doesn’t matter the way it once did.

To read the entire article, click here.

FFC USA Today ad runs in South Carolina

Ralph Reed on CNN with Anderson Cooper

Ralph Reed on CNN with John King talking about the Iowa Caucuses

My Take: Iowa caucus results puncture myth of ‘evangelical vote’

By Ralph Reed, Special to CNN

One of the most important sub-plots in the Iowa caucuses was which candidate would win the support of Iowa’s evangelical voters, who comprised 60 percent of the vote in 2008, and according to the CNN entrance poll, comprised 58% of the vote Tuesday night.

In the media’s instant analysis, a “splintering” of Iowa’s evangelical vote among numerous candidates made it difficult for them to influence the selection of the Republican presidential nominee.

But this narrative is based on a caricature of evangelicals and other voters of faith. Consider this: 61% of self-identified evangelicals who attended a caucus Tuesday night in Iowa voted for a candidate who is either Roman Catholic (Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum) or Mormon (Mitt Romney, who won the caucuses, besting Santorum by eight votes ).

Here’s how the evangelical vote broke down: 32% for Santorum, 18% for Ron Paul, 13% each for Romney, Gingrich and Rick Perry, 6% for Michele Bachmann and 1% for Jon Huntsman. Read More…