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While Reagan grappled with such theoretical concepts, it was left to Vice President George Bush to launch a partisan counterattack to Mondale's criticism of the President. Said he: "I would say to Mr. Mondale, 'When you were serving with Jimmy Carter, a Fundamentalist Baptist, a man of deep convictions, I never heard this criticism. I don't recall, Mr. Mondale, your criticizing the National Council of Churches when they involved themselves, usually on the liberal side of most of these concerns.' This is a born-again concern of Mr. Mondale...
HARVEY COX, professor at the Harvard Divinity School, Baptist minister and author of The Secular City...
...JERRY FALWELL, founder of Moral Majority and chancellor of Liberty Baptist College, Lynchburg...
...joined on the second day by former First Lady Rosalynn, 57. "I've done a lot of carpentry before, but not like this. The tallest building in Plains, Ga., is two stories high." After work the former Chief of State read from the New Testament at a local Baptist church, whimsically relating his group's good deed to the Bible: "If Christ came to New York he would probably spend lots of time on the Lower East Side−before it's gentrified that...
Where does religion fit in all this? He couldn't say exactly where, but he knew it was around. Businessmen regularly start the day with Bible-study breakfasts. Dallas contains the largest Southern Baptist congregation in the country, he told me, and some of the largest Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. And 59.2% of Dallas County voted for Reagan...