The card also asked pastors to inform their congregations and to request their participation in the effort. The Christian Coalition boasts 1.7 million members. Early in the new year the group will probably claim a full 2 million members. Every Christian Coalition member supposedly receives the bi-monthly Christian American magazine. Christian Coalition officials are either stretching the truth, or a lot of members are being gypped.
Additional figures report the average circulation per issue for the past year.
So, the latest figures indicate an approximate 42,000 drop in circulation. Free distribution also dropped, from 66,079 to 43,141. Religious tests in South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina Governor David Beasley plans to appeal a ruling overturning a state requirement that candidates for state office believe in a Supreme Being. Circuit Judge Thomas Hughston said such tests are unconstitutional. In the landmark Torcaso v. Watkins case, Roy Torcaso sued the state of Maryland because he would not declare his belief in God, and was therefore barred from holding the office of notary public.