Thanks be to God for the labors of so many since 1973, but especially the Church of our Lord, who rose in prayer and protest against such tyrannical laws; to Rousas John Rushdoony, whose writings stirred a generation of thinkers to engage the public sphere, President Ronald Reagan, whose elegance in speech gave conservatism a voice, Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority, who offered a way forward to pursue righteousness as a nation,