«As I traveled the state, I had to con­tend with the rise of a new poli­tical force, the Moral Majority, founded by the Reve­rend Jerry Fal­well, a con­ser­va­tive Bap­tist minister from Vir­ginia who had won a large tele­vi­sion following and was using it to build a national orga­niza­tion com­mittee to…