Reagan's Election Crusade | Sojourners

Reagan's Election Crusade

Election years are always full of surprises, and one of the biggest ones so far this year has been the ostentatiously "religious" nature of Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign. In the State of the Union address that served as the president's unofficial campaign kickoff, he referred to God 10 times and included a call for state-sanctioned prayer in the public schools.

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