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==Early life==
Born on [[March 26]], [[1938]], Burt was a Marine and divorced father who battled alcoholism and speed addiction before becoming a born-again Christian. He was also a member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. Although later dissociating himself with the organization, he later remarked on its similarities to anti-abortion groups:
{{cquote|Get rid of the Klan's violence and racial bigotry, and I could work with those people. Fundamentalist Christians and those people are pretty close, scary close, fighting for God and country. Some day we may all be in the trenches together in the fight against the slaughter of unborn children.<ref name="towering">" Towering Over the Abortion Foe's Trial: His Leader." ''New York Times'', March 5, 1994.</ref>}}
