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"No, I didn't say he destroyed it but … he wasn't too keen on keeping it going, I don't think," said the Coalition founder. "I mean, there was studied indifference, and I think that the demise of the Christian Coalition can in part be laid at their feet."

Never mind that by the time Bush took office the Christian Coalition was pretty dead already. He might as well have blamed Rove and the Bushies for his failed 1988 presidential campaign.

Robertson endorses Schwarzenegger
Remember when Pat Robertson said he was getting out of politics? No, he really said it. Old habits die hard, apparently. And a lot of religious conservatives may be upset with his endorsement of Arnold Schwarzenegger in that MSNBC interview.

"He is pro-abortion. He is pro-gay rights. He's got a lifestyle that I guess—or had a lifestyle we could call, I guess, bodybuilder lifestyle that you've been reading about," Pat Buchanan said. "Pat Robertson, should Christians in good conscience, can they vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger?"

"I'm a bodybuilder," Robertson replied.

I do some pretty heavy weightlifting, so I think the weightlifters of the world need to unite. But I tell you what, those guys in California could use a big bruiser to knock some heads together. I mean, they're out of control out there, so what are they going to do? I mean, you're going to have Bustamante, who is sort of a, you know, the Governor Gray Davis light. They don't want any more of Gray Davis, so who are you going to put in? I think we don't have anybody else that's coming up on the radar, so the other alternative is just stay home.

Of course, the same religious conservatives that may be upset over Pat's support of Arnold are already upset with the broadcaster's support of China's one-child policy, business deals with former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, involvement in horse racing (and failure to keep a promise to sell the horses), and many other comments he's made.

Ray Knighton, founder of MAP International, dies at 81
After a month's illness, MAP International founder J. Raymond Knighton Jr. died of congestive heart failure Saturday. His Christian organization, founded in the Chicago area as part of the Christian Medical Society, is now independent, based in Brunswick, Ga., and has about 125 staff members around the world involved in providing medicines, preventing and treating disease, and promoting community health development.

"Ray was one of those visionary people who had a big heart for everybody and anybody," MAP president and CEO Michael Nyenhuis told The Florida Times-Union. "In true humility, he'd tell you that it wasn't his vision that created MAP. Rather, he'd say it was the result of circumstances set by God and that he was just following God's lead."

Estrada pulls name as judicial nominee:

• Estrada withdraws name from court consideration | Calling it a "political hate crime" and an "American nightmare," Republicans and a handful of Democrats lashed out at the 45 Senate Democrats who led the filibuster against Mr. Estrada (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Estrada's withdrawal the result of 'unconscionable abuse' by liberals (Press release, Focus on the Family)
  
  
• FRC statement on Miguel Estrada | Since Senate Democrats can't sell their liberal political agenda to the American people, they see courts packed with judicial activists as their best opportunity (Family Research Council)
  
  
• Estrada drops out | We thank Miguel Estrada for being willing to put himself and his family through this arduous process (Tony Perkins, Family Research Council)
  
  

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