JERRY FALWELL HAS DIED. They call him the founder of the Moral Majority, but actually the idea was hatched between Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail king known by the nickname Reagan's Postmaster*, and Paul Weyrich, the founder of the Heritage Foundation. I'm waiting for Pat Robertson to find a way to blame his rival's death on either feminists or witchcraft.
*Note to literalists: I'm not saying he actually was the U.S. postmaster under Reagan. It's a nickname.
--Adele M. Stan
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