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...Robertson is bringing in new voters, but they are people who have been specifically mobilized by a sense of mission, by the feeling that they must "take back" this country for God. The politicizing of the religious right has been going on for decades, as Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe document in their forthcoming book, Televangelism, Power, and Politics. The Robertson voters are first-timers for reasons that make it unlikely that they will be one-timers...
...much less hysteria about Moon now than there was in the 1970s. California Cult Foe Lowell D. Streiker thinks Moon's imprisonment may strengthen the loyalties of disciples, "but it doesn't help in recruitment or in image building." An even stronger view is taken by Anson Shupe of the University of Texas at Arlington, an expert on the movement. He sees a loss of momentum in the Moon cult, viewing it as an organization in disarray, pouring "millions of dollars down the drain" and unable to hold on to recruits. Says he: "What the Moonies do is ludicrous. Most...
...point of no return. "We have the momentum going in our state," he says. "I don't want us to lose it." A new shock from the oil sheiks of the Middle East may also change the terms of alternative energy's economic equation. Says John Shupe of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute: "We have gone through an oil glut. The next shoe that is dropped in the Middle East can put the U.S. back in a worse position than we were in 1973. The country is no better prepared." Hawaii has made a strenuous effort...
...RUSSELL D. SHUPE Houston...
...BETTY T. SHUPE...