FORBES GETS HIS CALLING

THE EARLY CAMPAIGNER BLAMED THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT FOR HIS '96 PRIMARY LOSS. IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM...

Those close to Steve Forbes know only this about his spiritual life: he's an Episcopalian and attends St. John on the Mountain in Bernardsville, N.J. Perhaps you'd be circumspect about your faith too if your father had made you wear a kilt to Sunday services as a kid. "He hadn't given an awful lot of thought to these kinds of issues until he started running for President last year," says Forbes supporter Gordon Humphrey. Nor had Forbes spent much time communing with the more demonstrative branches of Protestantism. "As an Episcopalian, he never rubbed shoulders too much with Baptists and those...

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