The power and the glory: who needs the Christian Coalition when you've got the White House? The religious right's covert crusade.
American Prospect, The, May, 2002 by Easton, Nina J.
GARY BAUER, CHRISTIAN-RIGHT LEADER AND 2000 presidential candidate, fully appreciates the political perils of the discussion we're about to enter into this early spring morning. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson publicly breached the same territory shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, when they suggested that liberals and gays were responsible for America's cursed fortunes. Both earned the public's ire and a dressing-down from the president of the United States.
But Bauer is a creature of Washington; politics are what make his "heart beat faster," as he ...
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