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This is a legitimate intellectual position--upheld by a dwindling number of secular thinkers (noteably Harvard's own Harvey C. Mansfield Jr.), but nonetheless strong within the church. In the best and kindest spirit of the intellectual (which is, after all, to uncover truth), Landry notes that "In our treatment of the subject...we constantly affirmed the dignity of the homosexual person, and explicitly suggested...that all others do the same...
...zealots, led by divisive televangelists like Jerry Falwell, who helped yank the Republican Party so far to the right that moderates were frightened away. But Reed has emerged as the movement's fresh face, the choirboy to the rescue, a born-again Christian with a fine sense of the secular mechanics of American politics. His message, emphasizing such broadly appealing themes as support for tax cuts, has helped make the Christian Coalition one of the most powerful grass-roots organizations in American politics. Its 1.6 million active supporters and $25 million annual budget, up from 500,000 activists...
Behind Reed's cool blue eyes is steel. He is no innocent, talking tough politics like the late Lee Atwater, a Republican operative of decidedly secular mien. Last week Time got a close look at Reed and his organization by traveling with him as he moved from Washington to New Hampshire and back. He also provided a rare insider's glimpse at the real source of his clout-the satellite-Internet-and-fax machine juggernaut employed by his soldiers in the field...
...bitterly about the lack of immediate payoff from the November election. Fearful of compromising with "anti-family" elements, Dobson argued that it was time to fold the all-inviting "big tent" of the Republican Party. In contrast, Reed argues for a more inclusive Coalition and struggles to appear more secular (in New Hampshire last week, for example, he declined an invitation to give the invocation before the senate because he did not want TV cameras to record him in prayer). There are two faces to the religious right, says Michael Hudson, executive director of the liberal People for the American...
Whatever Reed decides-to press for control of the Republican Party now or to rise above partisanship for a while-the religious right is moving toward center stage in American secular life. Henceforth, Reed told Time, "issues are going to have a moral quotient." The Christian Coalition, says Arthur Kropp of People for the American Way, "won't be content to be background music." They will want the oomph of the big band. And a choirboy will lead them. --With reporting by Laurence I. Barrett, traveling with Ralph Reed, and Richard N. Ostling/New York