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...Robertson, the smiling televangelist who is the founder and star of the Christian Broadcasting Network, is winning more attention at the moment, in part because of the novelty of his latest cause. Last week he did well enough & in the first round of Michigan's convoluted delegate-selection process to put himself firmly on the G.O.P. presidential map. The results hardly added up to the "absolutely amazing victory" that Robertson quickly claimed. Yet he made a more than respectable showing in the number of his supporters who won election as delegates to county conventions, much better than anyone would have...
Michigan illustrated Robertson's basic strength: instilling a political mission among Evangelicals who were previously inactive in campaigns. In politics these days, the label Christian has connotations that go far beyond religious beliefs; it refers to advocates of a social and political agenda based on the conservative moral outlook shared by many Evangelicals. "It's so great to have some Christians in politics," says John Edison, a community- college student and Robertson precinct delegate from the town of Portage, Mich. In Iowa such Christian activists have already won effective control of the Republican organizations in two counties, including...
...Yale Law School graduate and smooth TV performer, Robertson is capable of giving a thoroughly reasoned admonition against the dangers of huge budget deficits, as he did last week in Iowa. But no matter what his topic, his speech is laced with religious allusions; he has a preacher's habit of stretching out words (free-dom, A-mer-i-ca) for emphasis. Though he smiles brightly and often, even when the smile is out of sync with the tone of his words, he taps what he describes as "a rage and frustration building up in - certain quarters of this country...
...Robertson takes pains these days to come across as an unthreatening candidate to those who do not share his religious fervor. Yet a fund-raising letter referring to the success his delegate candidates were having in Michigan began with the exultation "The Christians have won! . . . What a breakthrough for the Kingdom!" In addition, he belongs to the charismatic strand of Evangelicalism that discomfits even some fellow Evangelicals. In the TV studio, Robertson has prayed openly for healings and miracles, calling on the power of God to cure maladies in his audience as diverse as cancer and a slipped disk...
Even Evangelical Christians, who are far from a unified bloc, are not universally enthusiastic about Robertson's candidacy. "We've got a badly fragmented Christian community that cannot be lumped together," says Robert Grant, head of the religious-right lobbying group Christian Voice. Grant agrees with Robertson on most issues, but is tepid about his candidacy. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority, has endorsed Bush...