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							<title><![CDATA[Graham Showed What Evangelical Christianity Could Be]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Randall Balmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For anyone who has read Sinclair Lewis&rsquo;s &ldquo;Elmer Gantry&rdquo; or lived through the televangelist scandals of the 1980s &mdash; Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts &mdash; it is not difficult to identify Billy Graham&rsquo;s most remarkable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Huckabee's Rhetoric of Religious Victimization]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0531-balmer-huckabee-victimization-20150531-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randall Balmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just prior to announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee addressed the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition in Waukee. &ldquo;We are criminalizing Christianity in this country,&rdquo; Huckabee declared. &ldquo;We cannot stand by silently.&rdquo; The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racism Is the Real Origin of Religious Right]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133.html?ml=m_a1_1#.U4b_x_ldWk5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Randall Balmer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the most durable myths in recent history is that the religious right, the coalition of conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, emerged as a political movement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. The tale goes something...]]></description>
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