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Falwell, in a speech entitled "The Evangelic Vote: Is It Monolithic?," stressed that the support from "evangelist followers" of groups like his own Moral Majority transcends political parties...
...evangelist last spoke at Harvard two years ago. At that time, security was tight because the University anticipated hecklers like those who disrupted an earlier speech by Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger...
...play, tentatively titled Bye, Bye, Verdi, is about what happens when "grand opera meets Grand Ole Op'ry," says Tolins. In it, "the Oprah Winfrey Company's funding is cut off, and it is forced to join forces with [Nashville's] Grand Ole Op'ry to fight Christian evangelist Holly Arethanthou, who wants to transform the opera house into a religious theme park...
...WHAT HAS to be one of the greatest political sleights of hand since Ronald Reagan promised to decrease taxes, increase spending, balance the budget all at the same time, the television evangelist Pat Robertson has declared that he is going to run for President. The good Reverend won't actually throw his frock into the political arena unless three million people indicate their support for him in the next year. Robertson has deftly avoided appearing too political while at the same time creating the beginnings of a populist "Draft Robertson" campaign...
...Reverend Robertson says that God speaks to him. So if there aren't three million good Christians out there willing to support America's most popular television evangelist, then the state of religion is in pretty sad shape. But, as in the case of the Cabots and the Lowells, it's likely that those people who sign Robertson's presidential petition do so because they appreciate that he, not He, talks to them. Robertson may talk to God but he understands that it is the support of us mortals, whether it be measured in Nielsen ratings or votes, that really...