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Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals

By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 28, 2006; 8:34 AM

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday
for failing to "acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American
people," and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and
other churchgoing Americans.

"Not every mention of God in public is a breach to the wall of separation.
Context matters," the Illinois Democrat said in remarks prepared for delivery
to a conference of Call to Renewal, a faith-based movement to overcome poverty.

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Obama said millions of Christians, Muslims and Jews have traveled similar religious paths,
and that is why "we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse. ... In other words,
if we don't reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell
them what we stand for, Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons will continue to hold sway."

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/28/AR2006062800281.html