The Christian leader trying to break America's link between faith and guns

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Such extreme conservative views developed over time from President Nixon's "southern strategy" to increase political support among white voters in the south by appealing to racism against Black people, tough-on-crime policies and anti-abortion sentiments.
59% :How to detach gun ownership from being a marker of Christian faithfulness, and the accompanying politicization, concerns Cook.
57% : "We don't think much of the second amendment."
51% :Attempts to forge stronger relationships between churches and gun control advocates have proceeded slowly.
48% : Schenck, a former evangelical anti-abortion activist who shifted to support abortion rights, described gun violence as a "life-or-death issue", making it essential to include gun control in "pro-life" agendas.
44% : "That's a really hard thing to do, but I think if there were more people within our congregations who paid attention to this stuff and really put the pressure on Congress and their legislators to pass tough gun laws that could be really important."

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