The WaPo reports:The Rev. D. James Kennedy, 76, a prominent television evangelist whose political influence extended to the highest levels of the nation's leaders, died Sept. 5 at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He had complications from a heart attack suffered in December.
Kennedy spent his lifetime trying to force all of us to live our lives according to his narrow religious beliefs. He did not respect the First Amendment guarantee of separation of church and state. Americans United for Separation of Church and State has background on Kennedy that includes this quote:
"If we are committed and involved in taking back the nation for Christian moral values, and if we are willing to risk the scorn of the secular media and the bureaucracy that stand against us, there is no doubt we can witness the dismantling of not just the Berlin Wall but the even more diabolical 'wall of separation' that has led to increasing secularization, godlessness, immorality, and corruption in our country."
Rolling Stone magazine called him "the most influential evangelical you've never heard of."
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