Context Clues: Televangelists
American Hysteria
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The New Evangelicals
The moral majority would see their first major political victory in 19 80 with the election of ronald regan, whose policies would take shape in part through this powerful lobby. As governor of california, regan had passed the most liberal abortion law in the state in the late 19 sixties. Cranky elf and moral majority fixture, pat robertson would make an unsuccessful bid at president in 19 88,. hoping to fill in the ragan void with an even more extreme version of the christian rite.
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