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Article: From The Moral Majority To Tinky Winky.
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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The Rev. Jerry Falwell has announced a new gambit to increase his political profile as campaign 2000 heats up. Since Falwell may be more prominent in the news in the coming months, Church & State has pulled together this survey of the TV preacher's checkered history.
May 1979: Falwell, a televangelist and Baptist pastor in Lynchburg, Va., is recruited by far-right activists Howard Phillips, Ed McAteer and Paul Weyrich to form the Moral Majority, a vehicle for bringing fundamentalist Protestants into the Republican Party with the aim of unseating President Jimmy Carter. The move was an about-face for Falwell, who advised his congregation in 1965, "Preachers are not ...