Editing Eldridge Cleaver (section)

===Later life===
In the early 1980s, Cleaver became disillusioned with what he saw as the commercial nature of [[evangelical Christian]]ity and examined alternatives, including [[Sun Myung Moon]]'s campus ministry organization [[Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles|CARP]].<ref>Neale, Linda [https://earthlight.org/2004/essay50_neale.html "One Journey Home: Eldridge Cleaver's Spiritual Path"], ''EarthLight Magazine'', no. 50, Spring 2004.</ref> He was also [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] for a time.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bringhurst|first=Newell G.|date=2002|title=Eldridge Cleaver's Passage through Mormonism|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23288647|journal=Journal of Mormon History|volume=28|issue=1|pages=80–110|jstor=23288647|issn=0094-7342}}</ref> He later led a short-lived [[Christian revival|revivalist]] ministry called Eldridge Cleaver Crusades, "a hybrid synthesis of Islam and Christianity he called 'Christlam'",<ref name=Gates2004/> along with an auxiliary called the "Guardians of the Sperm".<ref name=chic>Horacio Silva, [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/23/magazine/radical-chic.html "Radical Chic"] ''The New York Times'', September 23, 2001.</ref>

Cleaver was then [[Baptism in Mormonism|baptized]] into [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) on December 11, 1983.<ref>[https://www.mormonmatters.org/from-black-panther-to-mormon-the-case-of-eldridge-cleaver/ "From Black Panther to Mormon: The Case of Eldridge Cleaver"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216071920/http://mormonmatters.org/2009/03/10/from-black-panther-to-mormon-the-case-of-eldridge-cleaver/|date=December 16, 2010}} at Mormonmatters.org.</ref> He periodically attended regular services and lectured by invitation at LDS gatherings.<ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Kifner|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/us/eldridge-cleaver-black-panther-who-became-gop-conservative-is-dead-at-62.html|title=Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther Who Became G.O.P. Conservative, Is Dead at 62|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 2, 1998|accessdate=August 7, 2019}}</ref>

By the 1980s, Cleaver had become a [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. He appeared at various Republican events and spoke at a California Republican State Central Committee meeting regarding his political transformation. In 1984, he ran for election to the [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] City Council but lost.<ref name=announces>{{Cite news |date=February 24, 1986 |title=Eldridge Cleaver Announces Bid for U.S. Senate Seat |work=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |publisher=Johnson Publishing |volume=69 |issue=23 |page=25 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=N7MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA25 |issn=0021-5996 |access-date=May 16, 2012 }}</ref> Undaunted, he promoted his candidacy in the Republican Party primary for the [[1986 United States Senate election in California|1986 Senate race]] but was again defeated.<ref>{{Cite book |title=American Social Leaders and Activists |last=Hamilton |first=Neil A. |date=2002 |publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]] |location=New York |isbn=1438108087 |page=84 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tKxOpAh78IsC&pg=PA84 |access-date=May 16, 2012 }}</ref> The next year, his 20-year marriage to Kathleen Neal Cleaver came to an end.<ref name="Rosenzweig" />

In 1988, Cleaver was placed on [[probation]] for [[burglary]] and was briefly jailed later in the year after testing positive for [[cocaine]].<ref name=Chron>{{cite web |url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/05/02/MN2755.DTL |title=Ex-Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver Dies |last=Taylor |first=Michael |date=May 2, 1998 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=August 26, 2011}}</ref><ref name="Haynes, V. Dion 2014">Haynes, V. Dion, "Ex-Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver", ''Chicago Tribune''. Retrieved February 19, 2014.</ref> He entered [[drug rehabilitation]] for a stated [[crack cocaine]] addiction two years later, but was arrested for possession by Oakland and [[Berkeley Police Department|Berkeley police]] in 1992 and 1994. Shortly after his final arrest, he moved to [[Southern California]], falling into poor health.<ref name=Chron/>