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| date_of_birth =[[May 3]], [[1952]]
| children =[[Emily Baldwin Baker]]<br/>[[Christopher Baldwin]]<br/>[[Timothy Baldwin]]
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Dr. '''Charles O. "Chuck" Baldwin''' is a Pensacola minister and politician who ran as the [[Wikipedia:Constitution Party (United States)|Constitution Party]]'s vice-presidential candidate during the [[2004 election]]. He is the founder of [[Crossroad Baptist Church]], host of the radio talk show program "Chuck Baldwin Live," and regular columnist for a number of political and religious outlets.
==Personal life==
Baldwin was born [[May 3]], [[1952]] in LaPorte, Indiana. He is the son of Ed Baldwin, a welder who helped build the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 and who struggled with alcoholism for more than twenty years.<ref>http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/ebald.html</ref> Chuck attended [[Wikipedia:Midwestern Baptist College|Midwestern Baptist College]] in Pontiac, Michigan for two years. There he met his wife, [[Connie Kay Cole]], and they married on [[June 2]], [[1973]]. They then moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Baldwin enrolled in the Thomas Road Bible Institute (now part of [[Wikipedia:Jerry Falwell|Jerry Falwell]]'s [[Wikipedia:Liberty University|Liberty University]]).
==Ministry==
In [[1980]], Baldwin began serving as Pensacola Chairman of the Florida Moral Majority. He later became State Chairman, in which he served until [[1984]].
Baldwin is a member of the [[Wikipedia:Constitution Party (United States)|Constitution Party]]. On [[May 2]], [[2004]], he was asked by Constitution Party presidential candidate [[Wikipedia:Michael Peroutka|Michael Peroutka]] to serve as his running mate in the [[2004 election]].Their ticket received 144,498 votes nationally (out of more than 122 million) and 6,609 votes (out of more than 7.5 million) in Florida.<ref>[[WIkipedia:U.S. presidential election, 2004]]</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/page/295011/ Washington Post]</ref>
Baldwin's political views reflect a conservative Christian ideology and are frequently opposed to both Democratic and Republican platforms. He is a strong critic of same-sex marriage (and same-sex unions<ref>http://www.constitutionparty.com/news_print.php?aid=89</ref>), illegal immigration, federal income tax, and the USA PATRIOT Act (which he says "is taken right out of the Nazi handbook"<ref>[http://gulf1.typepad.com/gulf1ccolumns/2007/06/the-worst-trage.html The Worst Tragedy of the Bush Presidency], June 29, 2007.</ref>).
==Commentator==
Baldwin is an author and columnist whose writings have appeared in a number of print and online publications, including websites like [[Wikipedia:World Net DailyWorldNetDaily|World Net DailyWorldNetDaily]] and [[Gulf1]]. He has appeared on numerous national media outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, ABC, ''Esquire'', ''The Miami Herald'' and ''The Washington Times''.
On [[August 1]], [[1994]], Baldwin first broadcast his radio talk show, "Chuck Baldwin Live." It is currently syndicated by eight radio stations in Florida and Alabama and began broadcasting on the national [[Wikipedia:Genesis Communications Network|Genesis Communications Network]] in May 2001.
