I grew up in a fairly conservative Christian environment. We listened to Focus on the Family radio stuff, etc. Pretty mild stuff in the scheme of things but very aligned with the Christian Coalition of the 1990s. Sometime in the 2000s I started studying the what the Old Testament had to say about social justice and boy, was that a shock. Verses like Ezekiel 16:49: "Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." And here you have the Christian Right saying that homosexual practice was the social issue we ought to be most concerned about. There's a lot more of course. The way I see it, there's a whole lot in the Instruction of Moses that shows God especially cares for the weak and vulnerable in society. These are most often enumerated as widows, orphans, and foreigners, or classed together as poor and needy. What these groups have in common is that they are easily taken advantage of and have little means of defending themselves. God will hear their cry and stand up for them. But the Instruction of Moses makes many provisions for these people, such as instruction regarding gleaning, debt forgiveness, release of slaves, and return of ancestral lands to their families. The ideal situation was where every family could rest under their own vine and fig tree. What you see in the Prophets is that Israel often failed to practice these instructions and went further by "grinding the faces of the poor." Woe to those who make unjust laws and deprive the poor of justice! warns Isaiah 10:1. Even after the Exile, you see this pattern re-emerging where Nehemiah criticizes rich landowners for making slaves of their poor countrymen who can't pay debts. This is why we need to study the Bible, folks. "My people are destroyed by lack of knowledge."