Christian Voice (USA)
| Founded | 1978 |
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| Founder | American Service Council, Inc. Rev. Dr. Robert Grant |
| Extinction | 2012 |
| Type | 501(4) |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
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Key people
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Rev. Dr. Robert Grant |
| Website | Internet Archives |
Christian Voice is an American conservative political advocacy group, known as part of the Christian right within U.S. politics. It is a project of the American Service Council. In 1980, Christian Voice claimed 107,000 members including 37,000 pastors from 45 denominations. Christian Voice was headquartered at the Heritage Foundation in the 1970s and 1980s and is currently located in suburban Washington, D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.
Christian Voice was among a group of four prominent Christian Right groups formed in 1978 and 1979. Christian Voice, Moral Majority, The Religious Roundtable and the National Christian Action Coalition all enjoyed high times before being reduced to rubble by the end of Ronald Reagan's Presidency.
Christian Voice is best known as the originator and developer of the Moral Report Cards the "Congressional Report Card" and the "Candidates Scorecard" that were issued mainly between the years 1980 and 1984. It helped organize grassroots action through use of its "Church Networking Guide".
Christian Voice, founded by Reverends Dr. Robert Grant and Richard Zone in 1978, was formed out of several California anti-gay and anti-pornography organizations. Evangelical minister Pat Robertson, who later formed the Christian Coalition, furnished some early financial resources for the organization.Paul Weyrich, the leader of the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation and the chief architect of the Christian right movement which the Christian Voice was a part of, met with Grant in 1976 and agreed to let Grant set up headquarters for his future organization at the headquarters of the Heritage Foundation. Weyrich, a member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, then recruited mail king Howard Phillips, a Jew who converted to Evangelical Christianity, and former Nixon administration official Richard Viguerie, a Roman Catholic who was known for leading crusades to "defund the Left," to help develop Grant's organization.
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