wyrek explained.what galvanized the christian community was not abortion, school prayer or the era. i am living witness to this because i was trying to tibet those people -- tibet those people interested in the those issues, and i utterly failed. what changed their mind was jimmy carter's intervention against the christian schools trying to deny them tax-exempt status. richard vision ri has been created with -- credited with finding what was once called the new right. he claimed that the irs desegregation proposal was the spark that ignited the religious right's involvement in real politics. thus, in a crucible of racism and piety baked red hot by the fear of corrupted youth, a movement was born. the role of the irs desegregation proposal and the birth of the religious right has been welcome well documented. less discussed has been the fiction, the fuel that fired the imaginations of those who answered the call. for while the irs proposal clearly threatened segregated education, its impocket on religi