Word: mcateer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, the evangelical right has not so much risen as erupted. In addition to Moral Majority, two other major organizations have sprung into action. The Religious Roundtable, founded by Ed McAteer, a onetime toothpaste salesman in the Bible Belt, concentrates on holding briefings to teach ministers and lay evangelicals how to get out the conservative vote. Christian Voice, led by the Rev. Richard Zone, campaigns openly for and against specific candidates, which it can do because, unlike the other groups, it does not claim a tax exemption...
Christian Voice. Zone, 30, and other California pastors got their political start by rallying behind a 1978 state referendum to bar openly homosexual schoolteachers. Since going national last year they have broadened their targets to include school busing and the Panama Canal treaty McAteer (against), Taiwan security and prosecution of welfare deadbeats (for). Three U.S. Senators and eleven Congressmen form an advisory committee. In its first year, the group claims to have enlisted 187,000 supporters, a fifth of them clergy, and it plans to spend $3 million in 1980. Voice has no tax exemption so it can be openly...
...Roundtable. Edward McAteer, 53, of Memphis, former Colgate-Palmolive sales executive, aims at using this group to train leaders. He focuses on what Conservative Digest calls "pro-God, profamily, pro-America causes." The Round-table is scheduling six seminars this year, including one for 11,000 this June in the Dallas Coliseum. Says McAteer: "If people know why they need to be involved, they will find out how to be." A favorite question in interviews with candidates during the primaries: "If you were President, what would you do to change the spiritual and moral direction of the country...