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<title>US evangelicals aim to influence European law</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Busekros case is emblematic of the growing effort by US Christian legal organizations to take the "culture wars" overseas. Pushing back against a perceived assault on their values by an increasingly secular society, the groups are striving to influence European law on issues ranging from home schooling to stem-cell research to gay marriage.]]></description>
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<title>45,000-member evangelical group breaks ranks with Bush administration on torture</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The National Association of Evangelicals, representing roughly 45,000 churches across the U.S. endorsed a declaration against torture put together by Evangelicals for Human Rights Tuesday - an organization of 17 evangelical scholars, in a striking break from the Bush Administration's polic]]></description>
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<title>&amp;raquo; Who&amp;#8217;s to blame for Pastor Haggard&amp;#8217;s fall from grace?  His fat, ...</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It is not uncommon to meet pastors


 wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband


s sin, but she may not be helping him either.


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<title>Evangelical leader quits after sex allegation  - U.S. Life</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why are the closeted ones to high up in the hate communities? The leader of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man in monthly trysts over the past three years.]]></description>
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<title>Evangelicals start ad campaign to pressure Bush on Darfur</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Evangelical leaders, both progressive and conservative, are putting aside their religious and doctrinal differences to call on President George W. Bush to hold an immediate conference to discuss economic sanctions and the intervention of a United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur.

"This is not about Republicans and Democrats, conservatives or liberals, Christians or Muslims," Jim Wallis, the founder and head of Sojourners/Call to Renewal said, "this is about compassion and the commands of God."]]></description>
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<title>GOP's Hold on Evangelicals Weakening</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The war in Iraq and the Rep. Foley mess are having an effect on evangelicals.

A nationwide poll of 1,500 registered voters released yesterday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that 57 percent of white evangelicals are inclined to vote for Republican congressional candidates in the midterm elections, a 21-point drop in support among this critical part of the GOP base.

In 2004, white evangelical or born-again Christians made up a quarter of the electorate, and 78 percent of them voted Republican, according to exit polls. But some pollsters believe that evangelical support for the GOP peaked two years ago and that what has been called the "God gap" in politics is shrinking.]]></description>
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<title>Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock</title>
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<description><![CDATA[


Most of my friends are believers,


 said Shannon Staiger, a psychotherapist and church member, 


and they think if you


re a believer, you


ll vote for Bush. And it


s scary to go against that.


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<title>Megachurches build a Republican base</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a March survey, a quarter of Ohio residents said they were evangelicals. The fastest-growing faith group in America, evangelical Christians have had a growing impact on the nation's political landscape, in part because adherents believe conservative Christian values should have a place in politics -- and they support politicians who agree with them. "Evangelical Protestants have become much more Republican in recent times, although 40 or 50 years ago more of them were Democrats," said Political analyst John  Green, director of the University of Akron's Bliss Institute of Applied Politics.]]></description>
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<title>A Weak Reed - Why Christian conservatives are souring on the GOP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The inevitable shift in evangelical politics does not change the fact that a majority of evangelicals will remain conservative and vote for the GOP. But the fears of a Republican party dominated by monolithic religious zealots are as overblown now as they were when [former executive director of the Christian Coalition Ralph] Reed was on the cover of Time.]]></description>
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