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Article: Moral Majority absorbed by group
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 4, 1986
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WASHINGTON Moral Majority, the conservative Christian lobbying
group, is being absorbed by a new organization, the Liberty
Foundation, with a political as well as moral mission, the Rev. Jerry
Falwell announced yesterday.
The new organization's top goals, he told a press conference,
will be to register 1 million new voters in 1986, to recruit 200 of
"our people" to run for office at different levels this year, and to
work with like-minded groups to bring 20 million religious
conservatives to the polls in the 1988 presidential election.
"We have found ourselves drawn into issues and conflicts which
were not anticipated in 1979 {when he founded the Moral Majority},"
Falwell said.
Such ...