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By Mimi Hanaoka
Saturday, 25 June 2005

With 63 percent of church-going Americans voting Republican, it seems self-evident that the vocal and visible Christian right would enjoy a monopoly on political influence. Now Patrick Mrotek has decided to pit faith against faith and has founded what he hopes will be the voice of the Christian left — the Christian Alliance for Progress.

The Alliance’s goals are explicit and include exerting political influence and addressing issues that have a particularly strong resonance for religious groups and individuals, including the obviously contentious issues of stem cell research, abortion, and gay rights advocacy.  

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Re: Reclaiming God
written by Anonymous, August 05, 2005
Jesus came to save the last, the least and the lost. This message has been pushed aside for wealth-building, judging others and plain out and out hurtful beliefs proscribed by the right-leaning likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and televangelists of that ilk.

Grace has left the equation with these so-called leaders. They are not only millionaires who are consumed by wealth, they crave political power moreso than they seek to help the less fortunate or seek justice and peace in a hurting world.

The Christian Alliance for Progress is mobilizing thinking people who have been hurt by the church, are un-churched and are turned off by the unjust, painful judgemental actions and policies of the likes of the Falwells, the Robertsons and the Dobsons who feel they must serve as the spokespeople for every Christian in America, which is NOT the case.

Help us restore grace to the church. Peace.
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