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Cartoons from the Christian Beacon Newspaper
 
Cartoons from the Christian Beacon newspaper document the high point of McIntire's influence and reveal in comical fashion the issues which deeply concerned him  during the 1960s and afterward. By the 1960s McIntire had become a conservative force in American political life, and then lingered on to the end of the 1980s as a “theological and political gadfly.” During his hay-day, he traveled among right-wing elites, hosting Irish Protestant Ian Paisley and visiting the palace of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. He embraced conservative American presidential hopefuls U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (1948), Barry Goldwater (1964), and George Wallace (1964/68/72/74), who represented his conservative social views on such issues as race and civil rights legislation, prayer in the public schools, abortion, the Vietnam War, the banning of nuclear weapons and the Strategic Arms Limitation agreements, recognition of China, and other issues which polarized the nation during the mid- and late-twentieth century.17 Gradually McInture's message became one of American patriotism as a Christian obligation.18
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17. The various issues of concern to McIntire are mentioned in Shelley Baranowski, “Carl McIntire,” Charles Lippy, ed., Twentieth-Century Shapers of American Religion (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989), 256-63.
18. John Fea, “Carl McIntire: From Fundamentalist Presbyterian to Presbyterian Fundamentalist,” American Presbyterians 72, no. 4 (Winter 1994), 262-63.
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