It was described by evangelical pastor Jerry Falwell as "obscene trash."
Americans are in a war that pits the politically correct against Christmas carolers, some say. They say it's a battle that plays out in the halls of Congress, retail stores and public schools across the country, and it's one that's been raging for years.
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour has broadcast from some of the world's most challenging locations. Here, we bring together links to her documentaries and exclusive web-only footage.
In the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election, the Democrats were roundly accused of losing the "moral values voters" in America, and of being the party of secularists who were hostile to faith and religion.
Vice President Dick Cheney must preserve a broad range of records from his time in office, a federal judge ordered Saturday, ruling in favor of a private watchdog group.
"I will never vote for anyone for the president of the United States who supports abortion or gay marriage."
With his school, and son, mired in scandal, the retired televangelist returns. He already may be too late
It could just be fear of Rudy Giuliani, but some evangelical leaders are seeing a savior in the GOP's great Mormon hope
After five years of trying to date girls and to conform and conceal his sexuality, 18-year-old Steven Field told his friends and family that he was gay.
A first-year Liberty University student was arrested in what police said was a plot to detonate explosive devices Tuesday, the day of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's funeral.
"When I have children one day," Samantha Krieger of Dallas, Texas, wrote to CNN.com, "they will know of the legacy that Dr. Jerry Falwell left."
A conversation with the Rev. Jerry Falwell was always a colorful journey through the intersections of religion and politics.
The son of an alcoholic who sold bootleg whiskey during Prohibition, Jerry Falwell was the father of a movement to restore America as God's country.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell is dead at 73. Ron Godwin, executive vice president of Falwell's Liberty University, said Falwell had "a history of heart challenges" and was found unresponsive Tuesday at the university.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television minister whose 1979 founding of the Moral Majority galvanized American religious conservatives into a political force, died Tuesday at age 73.
Sen. John McCain on Saturday said Americans should argue about the war in Iraq.
If Joe Klein's new book were just another screed about how hired-gun consultants have destroyed politics, I wouldn't be interested. I'm generally fed up with books that are generally fed up. But it...
You want irony? This week's CBS News poll reported Congress' approval rating at a dismal 29 percent, the lowest recorded number since 1996, right after that Republican Congress, in a showdown with Democratic president Bill Clinton, followed the unwise leadership of Speaker Newt Gingrich and shut down the government.
There is a long-standing Hollywood fantasy about how to succeed in American politics. From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to Bulworth, the story is the same: the hero is liberated when he breaks free from political convention and starts speaking from the heart. In the old days, Mr. Smith fought political bosses. Nowadays the bosses are political consultants. Senator Bulworth?in Warren Beatty's 1998 film?is liberated after deciding to commit suicide while watching his re-election ads.
In early 1993, Washington Post reporter Michael Weisskopf wrote a front-page story that characterized the followers of conservative church leaders Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as being " largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." Both Weisskopf and the Post were rightly criticized for publishing that unfair, offensive smear, especially by conservatives who introduced the Post quote as Exhibit A to prove that the liberal, secular press was full of elitists who mocked church-goers.
Last Friday morning, it was The Tick Tock Diner, a 24-hour restaurant serving pancakes and corned beef hash at the corner of 34th Street and 8th Avenue, a block from Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention.
Calling language in the Republican Party's platform "vicious and mean-spirited," a group of gay and lesbian Republicans launched a television ad Monday aimed at challenging national convention delegates to change the party's direction.
We are driving down the New Jersey Turnpike, waiting for the cellphone to ring. Normally we'd hope that the damn thing never made a sound. But today we are plumbing the depths of resentment that Am...
How much could Patrick Buchanan's defection from the Republican Party hurt George W. Bush this fall? Conventional wisdom says he could deny Bush the White House in a close race. In fact, if the rac...
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It takes a brave white man to approach 35,000 black Baptists and ask for their wallets. But on a steamy June afternoon at the St. Louis convention center, a little-known Memphis entrepreneur shows ...
I WAS TREMENDOUSLY shocked and offended by your editorial on page 7 in your May issue, "Look Who Lost While Mrs. Clinton Won."Commodity trading is a very hazardous operation, but Mrs. Clinton did n...
Fortune: HEAVEN EXPRESS?updated: Mon Oct 24 1988 00:01:00
Short of cash on Sunday mornings? That's no excuse. Just pull out your plastic. Last month, parishioners at St. Marks United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, became one of the first congregat...
Fortune: THE EDITOR'S DESKupdated: Mon Dec 08 1986 00:01:00
IF YOU TRIED to buy this space to run an ad, it would cost you $19,920 (for black and white) or $30,480 (color). But FORTUNE's publisher donates these columns every fortnight so that the editors ca...
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