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Two or Three Sundays ago Brian Lamb, the manager of C-Span, had a guy
on
his
Sunday night interview program who brags that he is the chief lobbyist
for
the Christian Right in DC. He added that the Christian Right was not
organized nor a political force until he started organizing them at
the
end
of the 1980s, or thereabouts.

He then went on to say, "We, the Christian Right, are very pleased we
finally have our first president."

The Christian Right's first president was Ronald Reagan.

Well, the lobbyist I saw on C-SPAN disagrees with your view as do I.

Reagan didn't even go to church.


The Religious Right had their first run up under the Reagan Administration.

"Religious America is awakening, perhaps just in time for our country's
sake." "In a struggle against totalitarian tyranny, traditional values
based on religious morality are among our greatest strengths." -- Ronald
Reagan (1)

"Religious views," says Congressman Jack Kemp, "lie at the heart of our
political system. The 'inalienable rights' to life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness are based on the belief that each individual is created by God
and has a special value in His eyes. . . . Without a common belief in the
one God who created us, there could be no freedom and no recourse if a
majority were to seek to abrogate the rights of the minority." (2)

Or, as the Education Secretary William Bennett sums up this viewpoint: "Our
values as a free people and the central values of the Judeo-Christian
tradition are flesh of the flesh and blood of the blood." (3)

1. Conservative Digest, Sept. 1980.
2. From a symposium on "Sex and God in American Politics," Policy Review,
Summer, 1984.
3. Quoted in The New York Times, Aug. 8, 1985.

Quoted from Leonard Peikoff's "Religion vs. America" at
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?pa...s_iv_ctrl=1225