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}}}>Begin PAT ROBERTSON RESIGNS FROM CHRISTIAN COALITION AU'S LYNN SAYS COALITION 'HAS BEEN A SINKING SHIP FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND NOW THE CAPTAIN'S JUMPED OVERBOARD' Television preacher Pat Robertson announced today that he is resigning as president of the Christian Coalition, the right-wing political organization he founded in 1989. The move spells the certain demise of the floundering group, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State. �The Christian Coalition has been a sinking ship for several years, and now the captain�s jumped overboard,� said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. �Without Robertson�s money and political clout, it�s only a matter of time before the organization collapses outright.� Added Lynn, �The sooner the Christian Coalition collapses the better as far as I�m concerned. Its activities have taken politics closer to the gutter than to Heaven. The country will be better off without it.� Although the Coalition enjoyed some political successes in the early to mid 1990s, the group has fallen on hard times in recent years. Its budget has plummeted from $25 million annually to less than $3 million. Top staffe rs have fled the group in droves, and earlier this year it was sued by several African American employees who alleged racial discrimination at the Coalition�s Washington, D.C., offices. Americans United has been the leading critic of the Coalition since its founding. In September of 1997, Americans United obtained a tape of Robertson outlining a partisan agenda for the group during a closed-door meeting of group activists and turned it over to then Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service. Americans United has also taken the lead in warning churches nationally that distribution of Christian Coalition �voter guides� could endanger the tax-exempt status of houses of worship. The guides, AU asserts, are really partisan campaign material that endorse conservative Republican candidates while attacking Democrats. Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom. December 5, 2001 Contact: Joseph Conn Rob Boston Church & State | AU Chapters | Speakers Bureau | Religious Community | Churches & Politics | Legal Information | Legislative Update | About AU | Press Releases Americans United for Separation of Church and State 518 C Street, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 202-466-3234 telephone 202-466-2587 fax http://www.au.org For comments on this page, please contact the AU Webmaster. � Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 2001. All rights reserved. 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