End Times for the Christian Coalition?

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Subject: BERKOWITZ -- End Times for the Christian Coalition?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:17:24 -0500 (EST)
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End Times for the Christian Coalition?

Bill Berkowitz, Media Transparency
December 6, 2006

http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=165

On September 19, 2005, Jason Christy, the head of Christy Media and the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Church Report, a national news and business journal for pastors and Christian leaders, was named executive director of the Christian Coalition by the organization's president, Roberta Combs. "I am honored and humbled to be chosen by the Christian Coalition's Board of Directors for this key position," Christy said. "It is crucial at this time in our nation for people of faith to engage the culture, and to realize that at the grassroots level they can make a difference."

Less than a month later, Christy changed his mind, deciding not to take the position. According to Word News, Christy intimated that it would be difficult to work with the Christian Coalition and continue running his various businesses.

Less than a year later, the Coalition's board voted to name Joel Hunter president of the organization. Hunter was/is the senior pastor of the nondenominational Longwood, Florida-based Northland Church, also known as Northland A Church Distributed, and a founder of both the Christian Citizen and the Alliance for the Distributed Church. In late November, however, Hunter stepped down as president-elect (he was to have assumed office on January 1), saying that he had wanted the organization to focus on issues other than abortion and same-sex marriage (such as poverty and environmental protection), but Coalition leaders did not. "I think the board just got scared," said Hunter, the author of "Right Wing, Wrong Bird: Why the Tactics of the Religious Right Won't Fly With Most Conservative Christians."

Read the full report:

http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=165

OF JOY! :toast: :party: :woohoo: :applause: :bounce: :applause: :party: :toast:

After all, all it was was a cobbled together bunch of RW fundie interest groups to support Pat Robertson's presidential bid. It should have gone away in 88.