Evangelical leaders worked openly to advance Reagan’s foreign policy

Evidence

In this respect, evangelicals found they had an ally in the White House. Not content to sit on the sidelines, evangelical leaders worked to muster support for Reagan’s foreign policy agenda. Falwell and other televangelists were happy to expose the folly of détente, disarmament, and pacifism. During the election they had derided Carter’s agenda as “a blatant compromise with Communism,” and they were tired of what Falwell characterized as a “no fight and no win policy” stretching back decades. Reagan appreciated the televangelists’ support, and in 1983 he invited Falwell to the White House to strategize on how to counteract the domestic nuclear freeze movement. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 257

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Evangelical Christian messianic doctrine directly shapes US foreign policy on Israel — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1022; Reagan recruited evangelical leaders to win public support for the Contras — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 264; The Reagan administration used evangelical media networks to mobilize support for contra funding — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 266 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Evangelical Christian messianic doctrine directly shapes US foreign policy on Israel — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1022; Reagan recruited evangelical leaders to win public support for the Contras — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 264; The Reagan administration used evangelical media networks to mobilize support for contra funding — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 266 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Reagan recruited evangelical leaders to win public support for the Contras #expands (0.95) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 264
• The Reagan administration used evangelical media networks to mobilize support for contra funding #expands (0.93) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 266