THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO RALPH REED

REED'S BURGEONING CHRISTIAN COALITION EVOKES ZEAL AND FEAR AS IT MOBILIZES TO DOMINATE THE POLITICAL ORDER

On Sunday, Ralph Reed rests -- at least he tries to. But on the night of April 30, his two-year-old, Christopher, lay awake for hours, badly sunburned from a picnic, leaving Reed little time for sleep in the modern, red brick house in Chesapeake, Virginia, that he and his wife Jo Anne recently purchased. Reed struggles for time with his family. "I get home as often as I can, even if it's only for a day," says the 33-year-old father of three. Still, the executive director of the formidable Christian Coalition has another mission, and at dawn on Monday he was...

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