Billy Ervin McCormack (August 4, 1928 – May 31, 2012[1]) was a Southern Baptist clergyman from Shreveport, Louisiana, active for more than sixty years in the ministry.

McCormack was one of the four national directors of the Christian Coalition of America, an organization assembled in 1989 by televangelist Pat Robertson.

As governor, Long had blacktopped the roads, made education more accessible to the poor, and brought Louisiana into the 20th century.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had great concerns of Huey's popularity ... [Long's] message was resonating with depression-plagued people across the country.

[6] He also received a master's degree from NSU and a Ph.D. from National Christian University,[7] which operated in Arlington, Texas, between 1967 and 1975.

[11] The McCormack-led Robertson forces and other conservative allies in 1988 gained control of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee.

They blocked efforts to denounce David Duke, who from 1989 to 1992 was a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Claims surfaced that Duke sold from his House office copies of such works as Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.

[12] In early August 1994, McCormack invited Bill Horn and Peter LaBarbera, two opponents of homosexual rights, to Shreveport to make a presentation.

Horn produced the video "The Gay Agenda"; La Barbera edited the newsletter the Lambda Report.

[2] In the 1950s, along with the staunchly segregationist newspaper publisher Ned Touchstone of Bossier City, McCormack had been an aide to Democratic U.S. Representative Overton Brooks, for whom the Veterans Administration Hospital in Shreveport is named.

Joining McCormack on the stage was the Reverend Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church of South Korea.

The Christian Coalition [has] been stereotyped quite well through the media as someone that's not acting in all peoples' best interest, but my being here is an indication that we stand for the rights of all people ... to work together and love one another for the Kingdom of God ...[14]In 2008, McCormack joined other ministers in the endorsement of former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas for the Republican presidential nomination, which was ultimately taken by U.S.

In his support for Huckabee, McCormack described the Arkansan as "not only well equipped for the presidency, he has demonstrated godly and righteous leadership in government ...

Its consumption has been linked to cirrhosis of the liver, epilepsy, poisonings, road traffic accidents, violence, and several types of cancer ...[16]McCormack died in Shreveport at the age of eighty-three.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, the former Carolyn Tomme (1933–2005), a native of Ringgold in Bienville Parish,[17] and a brother, Dr. Jack McCormack.

[3] Daniel Eugene "Dan" Perkins (born 1953), a Christian Coalition member and a Republican state senatorial candidate in 1999 against the late Ron Bean of Shreveport,[19] was a pallbearer at McCormack's funeral.