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Thursday evening at the Broad Street Presbyterian Church in downtown Columbus, Ohio, religious leaders from across the denominational spectrum worshiped, preached, and prayed together. In the final days before the 2006 election, their unified message rang out loud and clear: “On Nov. 7, we’re gonna let it shine.” The “Voting Our Values” rally, which Sojourners…

For years, we have watched the proliferation of voter’s guides from the Religious Right that did all but actually endorse only right-wing Republican candidates. Before the 2004 election, their narrow list of “non-negotiables” included abortion, stem-cell harvesting, homosexual marriage, human cloning, and euthanasia. All the wider issues that the scriptures speak to were simply ignored.…

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