Faith in Action
Since our founding, Jobs with Justice has understood our work to be picking up the moral mantle of the civil rights movement and of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to rebuild the broad-based, deeply-owned coalition model that defined the movement. We believe that faith communities and leaders are an integral part of a winning progressive alliance—articulating a moral argument for our cause and bringing faith, hope, and inspiration to our struggle.
The “moral majority” in this country must be redefined. Over the last two decades, the moral high-ground has been unscrupulously claimed by the “Christian-Conservative Right.” What has been even more devastating and disgraceful to the American people is that this false moral high-ground has in turn been exploited by the current presidential administration and conservative state and local governments across the country.
It is critical that we counter this conservative movement by re-invigorating a moral argument for social and economic justice among congregants and religious leaders. Organizing within our faith communities is important not only as a moral counterweight to the current conservative values being promoted endlessly in the mainstream, but also to revive a spirit of hope and righteousness within our own movement.
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