Robert Grant (Christian leader)

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Dr. Robert G. Grant (*1936) is one of the early leaders of the Christian Right in America. He serves as the Chairman of Christian Voice and the American Freedom Coalition.

Grant involved national conservative leaders including Gary Jarmin, Howard Phillips, Terry Dolan, and Richard Viguerie in his movement and made national headlines when Christian Voice-backed candidates including Ronald Reagan, Steve Symms, Dan Quayle, and John East defeated entrenched incumbents in the 1978 and 1980 elections. After Grant ousted Phillips, Dolan, and Viguerie several years later, the trio went on to recruit Jerry Falwell to build a new Christian Right organization, the Moral Majority. Grant's movement was said to have played a significant role in the election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980 and dozens of imitators were founded including Concerned Women for America, American Coalition for Traditional Values, and the Christian Coalition. Grant is an ordained Baptist minister.

Grant has appeared on 60 Minutes, Nightline, CBS and NBC News, the Morton Downey Show, Jr. Show, Good Morning America, CBS Nightwatch and over 2000 local and national radio and television talk shows. He's been quoted in Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Post, Christianity Today, and hundreds of other publications.

[edit] Positions and recognitions

Founding Chairman Christian Voice with Colonel Donor, Gary Jarmin, Richard Viguerie, Terry Dolan;
Founder, California Graduate School of Theology;
Founding President American Freedom Coalition with Ralph David Abernathy;
Founding Chairman Coalition for Religious Freedom with Tim Lahaye;
Founder American Coalition for Traditional Values with Tim Lahaye;
Member Religious Roundtable[1]
Board of Governors Council for National Policy;
Founder United Community Church of Glendale, California;
Publisher, American Freedom Journal;
Shalom Award, Nation of Israel ;

Grant has also at times served as a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, as the co-host of the national television talk show Let Freedom Ring, in various ministerial positions, as the Religion Editor of The Washington Times, on the Publisher's Council of Conservative Digest Magazine, and lead over 125 pilgrimages to Israel.