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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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The Blog for Thursday, November 11, 2004

"The Faith and Values Coalition"

    The Rev. Jerry Falwell and other evangelical Christian leaders hope to capitalize on the steady "moral values" drumbeat still echoing from the election to push a three-pronged social agenda aimed at judges, gays and future state and national elections.

    The vehicle will be The Faith and Values Coalition, expanding on an existing grass-roots network and touted as the 21st-century incarnation of Falwell's Moral Majority that helped sweep Ronald Reagan into the White House in 1980.

    In Florida, the group will campaign to put an amendment banning gay marriage on the ballot and attempt to influence the 2006 gubernatorial candidates, said Mathew Staver, vice-chairman of the coalition and president and general counsel of Orlando-based Liberty Counsel.

    "The group's central premise is to utilize the momentum of the Nov. 2 elections to maintain an evangelical revolution of voters who will continue to go to the polls to 'vote Christian,' " Falwell, the 71-year-old founder of Liberty University, who will serve as the coalition's national chairman, said Wednesday.
    "Group targets 'values' voters".

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