Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grass-roots campaign to slip prayer back into school is aimed at a chink in the Supreme Court's rulings: the court has never expressly stated whether voluntary student prayers are permissible. A mail campaign spearheaded by TV evangelist and onetime presidential candidate Pat Robertson has sent every high school principal and attorney general in the nation literature urging that such prayers be allowed as an expression of "free speech" and "equal access to the marketplace of ideas." (His organization does not advocate student prayers on school-wide intercoms, the practice that got Mississippi principal Bishop Knox suspended...
...American puritanism in a frankly physical rather than spiritual light. Readers may take this sleight to heart or turn it into a belly laugh. Either way, the sorcerer and his apprentice encounter a nation with more than its share of knaves and hypocrites, including the Reverend Huber, a stock evangelist huckster, and Mr. Phyllis, cooing host of a TV kiddie show who is a child molester offscreen...
...started at 7:45 a.m. at the White Hen Pantry in Porter Square, where Crimson reporter met Crimson photographer for the cold walk down Massachusetts Avenue to Saint John the Evangelist Church in North Cambridge. On the way, a Boston Police Bomb Squad van sped by, followed closely by two squad cars...
...capacity crowd of 900 mourners filled Saint John the Evangelist Church in North Cambridge, while hundreds more watched on TV monitors in the church basement or braved ten degree temperatures to listen to the service over loudspeakers set up outside...
...American Family Association, which is headed by right-wing evangelist Donald Wildmon, is supplying Knox with an attorney who hopes to file a lawsuit on behalf of the students and perhaps take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Governor Fordice, a Republican who once raised a national uproar by referring to America as "a Christian nation," is zealously exploiting the issue, declaring, "Any place that Americans want to pray ought to be the place for prayer...