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Answering a question about faith in yesterday’s Iowa Democratic debate, Mike Gravel was the only candidate to forego any mention of religion or spirituality<\/a>: \u201cWhat I believe in is love. And love implements courage. And courage permits us all to apply the virtues that are important in life.\u201d And yet God-o-Meter remembers that as a U.S. Senator, the Unitarian Universalist Gravel helped get the Pentagon Papers published in book form through Beacon Press<\/a>, a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association. And since Unitarian Universalists eschew specific religious beliefs<\/a>, God-o-Meter concludes that Gravel may have been invoking his personal faith after all.<\/p>\n


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