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Article: Aides: Moral Majority Was Misguided
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RICHARD N. OSTLING, AP Religion Writer
AP Online
03-18-1999
Aides: Moral Majority Was Misguided
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two leading figures in the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority during the 1980s now say that the organization was a misguided idea and that politics are not the way to boost spiritual values in America.
In a book out next week, they endorse religious right views but contend American society should be improved mainly by changing individuals.
The authors of ``Blinded By Might'' are syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, who was the Moral Majority's much-quoted spokesman, and the Rev. Ed Dobson, a former Falwell aide who is now a pastor in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The book appears weeks after ...