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==Legacy==

==Legacy==

On McAteer's death of cancer in East Memphis at the age of seventy-eight, independent conservative journalist [[Joseph Farah]] said that he had never "met a more fervent and zealous friend of Israel than Ed McAteer – and that includes all of my Jewish acquaintances."<ref name=jfarah->{{cite web|url=http://www.wnd.com/2004/10/26980/|title=My Friend, Ed McAteer|publisher=[[WND]]|date=October 12, 2004|accessdate=May 26, 2016}}</ref> Farah said that McAteer should have been appointed United States Ambassador to Israel in 1989 or again in 2001, but he was snubbed by both Presidents Bush.<ref name=jfarah/> In 2001, McAteer was featured as "the godfather of the Christian right" in the segment "Zion's Christian Soldiers" of ''60 Minutes'', the [[CBS]] news magazine. At the time, conservatives were pushing without success for the second President Bush to name McAteer as the U.S. ambassador to Israel.<ref name=bpnews>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpnews.net/19304|title=Ed McAteer, pioneer for faith in public policy, dies at 78|date=October 7, 2004|publisher=''Baptist Press News''|author=Art Toalston|accessdate=May 26, 2016}}</ref>Thougn neither Bush appointed McAteer as an ambassador, George W. Bush named McAteer's former election rival, Victor Ashe, as United States Amabasador to Poland.

On McAteer's death of cancer in East Memphis at the age of seventy-eight, independent conservative journalist [[Joseph Farah]] said that he had never "met a more fervent and zealous friend of Israel than Ed McAteer – and that includes all of my Jewish acquaintances."<ref name=jfarah>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnd.com/2004/10/26980/|title=My Friend, Ed McAteer|publisher=[[WND]]|date=October 12, 2004|accessdate=May 26, 2016}}</ref> Farah said that McAteer should have been appointed United States Ambassador to Israel in 1989 or again in 2001, but he was snubbed by both Presidents Bush.<ref name=jfarah/> In 2001, McAteer was featured as "the godfather of the Christian right" in the segment "Zion's Christian Soldiers" of ''60 Minutes'', the [[CBS]] news magazine. At the time, conservatives were pushing without success for the second President Bush to name McAteer as the U.S. ambassador to Israel.<ref name=bpnews>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpnews.net/19304|title=Ed McAteer, pioneer for faith in public policy, dies at 78|date=October 7, 2004|publisher=''Baptist Press News''|author=Art Toalston|accessdate=May 26, 2016}}</ref>Thougn neither Bush appointed McAteer as an ambassador, George W. Bush named McAteer's former election rival, Victor Ashe, as United States Amabasador to Poland.

Andy Groveman, president of the Memphis Jewish Federation, described McAteer as "a close friend to the Memphis Jewish community, and his love and loyalty for the state of Israel is unequaled.” Each year, McAteer organized the “International Christian Prayer Breakfast in Honor of Israel,” held in Memphis. Featured speakers over the years included such conservative figures as [[Roy Moore]], the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court<ref name=bpnews/>and a U.S. Senate candidate in the special election in [[Alabama]] in 2017. 

Andy Groveman, president of the Memphis Jewish Federation, described McAteer as "a close friend to the Memphis Jewish community, and his love and loyalty for the state of Israel is unequaled.” Each year, McAteer organized the “International Christian Prayer Breakfast in Honor of Israel,” held in Memphis. Featured speakers over the years included such conservative figures as [[Roy Moore]], the former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court<ref name=bpnews/>and a U.S. Senate candidate in the special election in [[Alabama]] in 2017.