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Christian Coalition is a religiously motivated conservative group founded in 1989 "as a means towards helping to give Christians a voice in their government again," which claims to "represent a growing group of over 2 million people of faith all across America."[1]
Pat Robertson founded the organization after his unsuccessful bid to win the Republican nomination for president. He appointed Ralph Reed as its executive director until 1997, when left to start his own political consulting business in Atlanta and eventually mount an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor there in 2006.
Christian Coalition took credit for the Republican landslide in the 1994 congressional elections, during the zenith of the organization's influence. In 1996 it backed Robert Dole for the Republican nomination and in 2008 Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani.
In 2006, the Alabama chapter of Christian Coalition separated from it, declaring that "the national group has been moving to the left ever since a 2003 campaign by the national group opposed the statewide organization on the issue of a tax increase."[2]
An independent group also associated with Pat Robertson, the American Center for Law and Justice, pursues litigation in court on matters of interest to many members of Christian Coalition.