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...Ralph Reed works to give the religious right a gentler face...
...Reed went to Emory on a scholarship, intending to switch to academic life for good because he had decided that politics was unstable as a career. His dissertation, on the early history of church-related colleges, is still remembered. "It was a first-rate piece of work," says Professor James Roark, "but I'm not sure Ralph would want it published today." The paper criticized some sectarian schools for trading off their religious heritage in exchange for endowments. In fact, Reed is proud of its argument: that traditional Christian values -- as born-again conservatives define them -- deserve to be protected...
...same cause lured Reed back to politics. In January 1989, when they met for the first time at a Washington banquet, Robertson told Reed of his plans for a new organization. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority was about to collapse. George Bush's accession threatened a return of country-club Republicanism. Reed had supported Jack Kemp rather than Robertson in the 1988 primaries, but no matter. Robertson knew of Reed's religious conversion; Robertson's cable show, The 700 Club, had done a piece on it. He also knew Reed's reputation as a conservative organizer. Reed wrote a memorandum...
With four years on the job, Reed is still tinkering with the means of his mission but remains confident that he has his ends right. When addressing outsiders these days, he makes the reasonable proposition that the religious right merely wants a place at the table. To followers in Charleston, South Carolina, not long ago, he described the dimension of that place: "Our ambition is to be larger and more effective than both political parties combined." That is no recent epiphany; to Reed, it is the gospel...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...