President Bush signed Executive Orders establishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, directing billions in federal funding to religious organizations while allowing employment discrimination based on religious beliefs. By 2006, faith-based organizations received …
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The Bush administration systematically hired 150 graduates from Pat Robertson’s Regent University, representing unprecedented ideological capture of federal agencies through a Christian institution with an explicit mission to produce ‘Christian leaders who will change the world.’ …
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On September 25, 1989, at an organizational meeting in Atlanta, Pat Robertson founded the Christian Coalition following his unsuccessful 1988 Republican presidential bid. Robertson recruited Ralph Reed, a twenty-eight-year-old doctoral student in history at Emory University, as the …
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