Remember the Terri Schiavo episode?  Who could forget?  One feature of the bizarre saga was the political reemergence of Randall Terry, the founder of Operation Recue, who served as a spokesperson to the Schindlers (parents of Terri), who in turn, had come under the influence of Catholic antiabortion leader, Fr. Frank Pavone. Terry, once a Pentecostal with an  explictly theocratic agenda, has since converted to Catholicism  -- also under the guidance of Fr. Pavone, head of Priests for Life. Having abandoned his wife and children; been exommunicated from his church; ostracized by Operation Rescue for this; remarried, moved from New York to Florida -- he is currently running in the GOP primary for the Florida State Senate against longterm incumbent James E. King of Tallhassee.

Terry's longshot campaign underscores  some changes in the contemporary Christian Right; some tensions in the wider movement; and its role in the Republican party.