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...Buchanan sounded downright evangelical for a politician, one evangelist in particular sounded mighty like a politician. He was Marion Gordon ("Pat") Robertson, 55, head of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a fixture on CBN's four-times-a-day The 700 Club. Robertson, a Southern Baptist, has been transmitting signals that he might join the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Reagan. Political pros are uncertain how big a factor he could be in the primaries, let alone the convention, but they are convinced that he could energize the Christian right and siphon votes from other candidates. True believers...
Preachers who purchase airtime frequently offer books, calendars, lapel pins and whatnot to those who phone or write in. Viewers requesting "premiums" often send checks, but the preachers' real goal is to build a computerized name list for future direct-mail solicitation. One prominent evangelist, Oregon-based Hispanic Luis Palau, complains with some justification, "When you try to talk to somebody about Jesus Christ in America, they immediately think all you want is to get their name, address and ZIP code...
Among Republicans with an eye on the top of the 1988 presidential ticket, the only prominent absentee was former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who declined to appear because he had expected to be out of the country. Some, including North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, were accorded podium time mostly as a reward for long-standing ardor. Others, notably former Delaware Governor Pierre S. du Pont IV, were long shots by any standard. A clear favorite was Kirkpatrick, a "heroine to conservatives" as Keene called her, who delivered a foreign policy address to the convention...
...what happened when Charlie Chaplin persuaded the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who regularly wore wings while she preached, to put on the wings while he had his way with her in a London hotel room. Well, never mind...
...preacher. He compares the Fundamentalists who are venturing into politics to the church liberals who stressed social action over the Gospel in the 1960s. Charles Colson, the Nixon aide who served seven months in federal prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, is a born-again Christian and evangelist who firmly upholds the Bible's inerrancy. He argues that believers "need to understand that the real problems of our society are at their root moral and spiritual. Institutions and politicians are limited in what they...