A New Religious Right Group

Jerry Falwell, it appears, is tired of being old news and he's jumping back in to the political arena with both feet. The Washington Times is reporting that Falwell has formed a new organization called the Faith and Values Coalition. Cuz you know, the American Family Association, the Traditional Values Coalition, the Christian Coalition, the Christian Defense Fund, Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and the 14 thousand other organizations that use the same 5 words and just juggle them around, they're just not getting the job done. Or at least, that's what the Holy Spirit tells him:

Since the Moral Majority disbanded in 1989, Mr. Falwell said, he has been "inundated" with requests to "finish what you started 25 years ago." He added, "I can honestly say I feel the leading of the Holy Spirit to answer that call."

Apparently God was busy handicapping the upcoming Iraqi elections with Pat Robertson (I hear he's putting his money on Allawi in a landslide - nothing like 60 days of martial law to pave the way to a successful election) and had to have the Holy Spirit handle Falwell. And it's appropriate that it's being reported in the newspaper owned by the Reverend Moon, that fearless God-being who so efficiently converts Japanese mob money into American political influence, and who bailed out the good Rev. Falwell to the tune of some $3.5 million a decade ago. But hey, that's $3.5 million less that he can give to the communist loonie that rules North Korea, so why am I bitching? Here's my favorite part of the article:

The 71-year-old pastor will chair the organization, which will be based in Lynchburg, Va., where Mr. Falwell leads Thomas Road Baptist Church and is chancellor of Liberty University. The new coalition has a database of 300,000 names, but no budget.

Oh, don't you worry. With that database of 300,000 names, all no doubt of people who have forked over large amounts of money to Falwell's past rackets, there will be a budget soon enough. All you gotta do is write up some good fundraising letters throwing around scary buzzwords like "judicial activism" and "gay agenda" and the denizens of righteousness will be throwing money at you in no time. Hey, maybe Moon would like to make another donation!