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Christian Century, Oct 2, 2007
D. James Kennedy, 76, a Florida minister who took to the airwaves and became a force in driving conservative Christians to the polls and into the public square, died September 5 after months of serious illness. He died after suffering complications from a cardiac arrest in late December. He preached his last sermon on Christmas Eve at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale--a congregation of almost 10,000 members that he founded and that affiliated with the conservative Presbyterian Church in America.
"He was a giant in the battle to restore traditional values in our nation," said James Dobson, founder and chair of Focus on the Family, a tribute echoed by many other religious right leaders. However, in offering condolences to the Kennedy family, Nancy L. Wilson, moderator of the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Churches, said that his ministry was harmful in promoting "a narrow view of religious liberty" and political favoritism for Christians while opposing abortion rights for women and civil rights for gay and lesbian people.
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