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...abortion is an extremely complex issue. The women who are faced with the question of whether or not to have an abortion often feel confused and deeply troubled. Before a woman chooses to have an abortion, she should stop and think long and hard about her choice. If a prayer vigil outside a clinic can make a woman think twice about what she's about to do, then it is a worthwhile and noble endeavor...
Reed got this far by refocusing the Coalition on more than its basic agenda of support for school prayer and opposition to abortion. It now works hand in hand with the congressional Republican leaders and defines its purpose loosely as "pro-family," which encompasses such mainstream issues as deregulation and welfare reform. Acting then as a team player for the Republican Party, the Coalition poured more than $1 million into the effort to pass the Contract with America, including $250,000 for advertising, direct mail and phone-bank work on behalf of the balanced-budget amendment -- not generally considered...
...showing at the Bethel Full Gospel Church in Rochester, New York, and that was just one of 12 downlink sites in what is supposed to be a liberal state. The meeting began when the county chairman, Tom Jessop, bowed his head and said, "Let's come together in prayer." But he moved quickly to such topics as how to become a Republican committeeman and how to "blitz E-mail." Indeed, the group was nothing like the Coalition members uncharitably described by the Washington Post in February 1993 as "poor, uneducated and easy to command." Jessop, 54, is a senior project...
...moment, Doris Kearns Goodwin's new biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. But there was nothing mundane-or junior level-about his encounters. In addition to New Hampshire's Governor, he met with Senator Dan Coats to discuss the Foster nomination and a new bill on school prayer and choice. He then socialized with a collection of the Republican Party's movers and shakers in New Hampshire. Through it all he kept in constant touch with his headquarters in Virginia and his Washington office by way of a cellular phone...
...tent" of the Republican Party. In contrast, Reed argues for a more inclusive Coalition and struggles to appear more secular (in New Hampshire last week, for example, he declined an invitation to give the invocation before the senate because he did not want TV cameras to record him in prayer). There are two faces to the religious right, says Michael Hudson, executive director of the liberal People for the American Way, "the moderate face that meets Bob Dole and the grass-roots state chapters that are still bashing gays. Ralph Reed is trying to create a big tent...