Romney's Debt to Falwell

by Michael Sean Winters

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Over at Huffington Post, I have an article today about Mitt Romney's debt to Jerry Falwell. Falwell relied on Francis Schaeffer's theory on "co-belligerancy" to overcome his traditional fundamentalist Baptist aversion to being "yoked" with un-believers, paving the way for fundamentalists to form political coalitions with conservative Catholics, Mormons and others.

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