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Secular Americans found Falwell to be horrifying, a dangerous mix of sacred and conservative. But so, at least at first, did many fundamentalists, who believed that politics had no place in houses of prayer. "What you have to remember is that American fundamentalists were separate from the rest of country...
Falwell's spiritual breakthrough, however, was accompanied by a political innovation. Instead of enlisting just fundamentalists and other conservative Protestants, Falwell opened the Moral Majority up to everyone: Jews, Catholics and Mormons - in short, the very people (and faiths) that fundamentalists had been separating themselves from for generations. That was...
Etiquette columns have long singled out class, along with religion and politics, as gauche topics for conversation. At Harvard, though, we’ve long ignored the prohibition on the latter two. A typical lunch conversation in the dining hall might touch on the theological underpinning of the religious Right?...
But old traditions of theological hostility conflict with constitutional traditions of religious tolerance and a modern trend toward political détente. When Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979, he was happy to welcome conservative Catholics and Mormons and Jews to increase his organization's throw weight on social...
Hewitt counters that Romney is facing a double standard, born of a barely hidden bias. "It is unreasonable to demand that a Mormon candidate expose and defend his deepest beliefs in rational terms in order to reassure voters that he is of sound mind," he says. He warns Evangelicals hostile...