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Barring a major stumble, though, Robertson promises to emerge with durable political influence. For the moment, he is pointedly keeping the Religious Right at arm's length to broaden his appeal, and in talks refers to his previous vocation as "businessman," not "evangelist." He has quit the Southern Baptist clergy and ceded control of his Christian Broadcasting Network to Son Timothy. But his organization of volunteers and financial supporters draws heavily upon the Christian Right and is one of the most substantial political infrastructures ever built in the U.S. on a religious base. It should carry Robertson and his smoothly...
...speech, which The Daily Pennsylvanian called loosely structured, Leary described television evangelist and Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson as a "nitwit" through whom his congregation had psychedelic experiences...
Besides Kemp, former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, Vice President George Bush, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and evangelist Pat Robertson already have entered the GOP race. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas has said he will declare his candidacy...
...cultivating enemies. Because she switched hats so often, she was accused of changing her tastes with the seasons. Because she was so tireless and acid-tongued an evangelist for her opinions, and because her opinions were so fierce -- especially a longtime hatred of Communism and an unswerving devotion to the Catholicism to which she converted in mid-life -- she presented an irresistible target to her adversaries. And because she had the misfortune of being on easy terms with glamour as well as with success, she was sometimes accused of manipulating men, sometimes of being manipulated by them. While admirers gushed...
Hahn in the interview said Bakker and evangelist John Wesley Fletcher forced her into having sex with them separately in a Florida hotel room in 1980 and then slyly boasted about it on television later...