Ralph Reed's Gamble

June 24, 2004 | This article appeared in the July 12, 2004 edition of The Nation.

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When Ralph Reed was the boyish director of the Christian Coalition, he made opposition to gambling a major plank in his "family values" agenda, calling gambling "a cancer on the American body pol

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