PORTRAITS in POWER
Baptist lobbyist walks a fine line
Influential conservative distances self from the far right
Second of three parts on key evangelical leaders NASHVILLE -- In the early 1970s, Richard Land, the Southern Baptist son of a Houston welder, took up his calling as the pastor of a storefront church in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter. ''We had a gay bar next door, and a drag queen costume shop across the street," he ... (Full article: 2315 words)
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