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...When Baptist Jimmy Carter admitted to Playboy magazine that he had violated Christ's commandment against lust in the heart a time or two, it produced one of the sillier sideshows of the 1976 presidential campaign. Now John Paul II, in a public comment that drew on the very same New Testament text, has stirred an equally unholy...
Thirty-six years ago today, Harvard track coach Bill McCurdy got married in a Baptist Church in Lexington, Virginia. "Since then I've never been in church--I guess that taught me a lesson," McCurdy said yesterday...
...Southern Baptist Conference President Bailey Smith is right. God does not hear the prayers of any person who says Jesus Christ is not the Messiah [Sept. 29]. Nor does God listen to the needs of every person who calls on him. It has nothing to do with racism, culture or class. (The Rev.) Norman Koop Deerfield Street...
...again Christians running for President they prefer. Although Carter considers himself to be an evangelical, he is not deemed conservative enough by Falwell and his associates because he has failed to fight for such matters as a ban on abortion or legalizing prayer in schools. Says Randy Stewart, a Baptist minister in Lexington, Ky., and a member of Moral Majority: "I will talk about the issues in my church. I will recommend issues to the congregation, not candidates. But when I get through, they will know who I am voting for: Ronald Reagan...
...presidential race, the evangelical conservatives already have demonstrated clout in some local contests. In Alaska, members of Moral Majority this summer took over the entire state delegation to the Republican Convention. In Alabama last month, Representative John Buchanan lost his seat in Congress; though he is a Baptist minister, his liberal views on women's rights aroused the wrath of Moral Majority, which turned out a huge Republican primary vote against him. Says Buchanan: "They beat my brains out with Christian love...