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...answers are thought-less. Thinking--what Michael calls "intellectualism"--is the largest obstacle the Moral Majority seeks to overcome. "You represent the biggest problem that the fundamentalist movement has. The person over here on the far left, he knows he's lost, according to the Bible. He knows he's not a Bible-believing Christian and he's headed for hell. But the person in the middle, like you, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth, you're on this side on one issue, on this side of the other, and you don't have any absolutes...
Unlike his left-wing counterparts, this pastor won't be casting his minor-party vote alone. Millions of Americans have joined the fundamentalist Moral Majority crusade, which says its mandate is "to give a voice to millions of decent, law-abiding, Godfearing Americans who want to do something about the moral decline of our country." Most of them will cast their votes for Ronald Reagan; if the former California governor is elected tomorrow, they will have a claim on the spoils. The demands will be drastic: a Constitutional amendment against abortion, massive military spending, sending troops to countries like Afghanistan...
...away from his right hand. "I am a citizen first, a pastor second," Michael says. Above all, he is a Christian; but he distinguishes his strain of Baptism from the "gray nebulous" of Christian sects, using a string of adjectives that pop up over and over again: fundamentalist, Bible-believing, born-again, saved. As a citizen, he has always kept up on the issues, voted, written to his congressmen. As a Christian, he--along with the other members of the six-month-old Massachusetts Moral Majority executive board--believes he must become more politically active...
...home region. The Governor, who has long been popular in some sections of the South, is being helped by the votes of white Protestants (51% to 39%), who favor him mainly because of his well-known conservative views and partly because of his alliance with television-era fundamentalist preachers...
...faculty will probably reach no consensus for at least a year, Wiener said, adding that faculty members range from "fundamentalist"--who support returning to the highly structured system Rice had until 1969-to those who favor keeping the present distributional system...