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.
—Mimi Hanaoka
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