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Christianity Today: Poll: Romney's Mormon faith not a general election issue for Republican Evangelicals
Republican evangelicals are less likely than other religious voters to support Mitt Romney in the primary elections, but they are more likely vote for him over President Obama in the general election, a new poll suggests.
Mother Jones: Study: K Street Is Holy Place
God is everywhere—even K Street. According to a new study from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, the number of organizations involved in religious lobbying or religion-related advocacy has increased nearly fivefold since 1970.
Denver Post: Focus on the Family affiliates high on list of big-spending lobbying groups, Pew says
Religion-related lobbying groups have increased fivefold since 1970 in Washington, D.C., from fewer than 40 to more than 200 today, according to a study released today.
Wash. Post: Pew study shows dramatic growth in religious advocacy
Mixed in with the thousands of corporate lobbyists on Capitol Hill each day is an unusual troop: religious advocates whose numbers have increased five-fold in recent decades and spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year, according to a new study.
The Hill: Study finds five-fold increase in lobbying by religious groups
Lobbying in Washington on religious issues has exploded in the last four decades, according to a new study released Monday.
Post-Dispatch: Religious lobbying groups multiply in D.C. says Pew study
The number of organizations engaged in religious lobbying in Washington has increased five-fold in the last 40 years, according to a Pew study released this morning, from fewer than 40 in 1970 to more than 200 today.
Roll Call: Report: Religious groups spend millions on advocacy
Religious organizations spend more than $390 million a year on lobbying and advocacy, according to a report released today that identifies pro-Israel groups as the No. 1 spenders.
Wash. Post: Graphic: Religious influence
The number of religious organizations advocating policy initiatives in Washington has increased more than fivefold since 1970. Religious advocacy groups spend nearly $390 million per year to advance their agendas.
Huff. Post: Religious lobbying groups have dramatically increased in Washington: study
With heated nation-wide arguments in recent years over issues ranging from same-sex marriage to abortion rights, it's no secret that religious organizations play a significant role in influencing the nation's policies.
Wash. Post: Religious lobbying groups multiply on Capitol Hill
The field of religious advocacy has mushroomed on Capitol Hill in recent decades, a new survey shows, with the number of groups growing fivefold since 1970 and hundreds of millions spent each year to influence issues from school vouchers and immigration to the right of women overseas to have abortions.
News International: Taught to fail
Education has never been high on the agenda of the state, and although there is a state education system that is theoretically open to all it is eternally underfunded, poorly resourced and staffed by indifferently trained teachers.
NCR: Opinion: Faith and globalization: the Italian perspective
The 21st century is unlikely to see a fundamental conflict of political ideology in the way the 20th century was dominated by it.
Huff. Post: Why Harvard's Humanist chaplaincy is announcing two atheist-led initiatives at Park51 Islamic center
With Republican debates dominating the political conversation in recent weeks, the most circulated religion-related stories have pitted the "Godly" against the "Godless."
CNN: Latino evangelicals challenge Alabama brethren on immigration
When the Alabama legislature approved what is considered the nation's toughest anti-illegal immigration law, much of the state's religious community was quick to condemn it.
America Magazine: Whom do Catholics support in 2012?
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life provides a portal into their data on all questions of religion and politics in the scope of the upcoming 2012 presidential election.
Time: For black conservatism, the right time and the wrong candidate
Herman Cain’s improbable rise to the top of Republican presidential primary polls — and the prospect that two black men, including an incumbent, could compete head-on for the White House next year — should be proof that American politics has moved beyond race.
Time: The candidate religious voters want in 2012
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life this afternoon released a report on presidential preferences for religious groups.
Time: The candidate religious voters want in 2012
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life this afternoon released a report on presidential preferences for religious groups.
Holland Sentinel: Skeptics in the Pub offers place for questioners
Growing up in Zeeland in the 1970s, it was simply common knowledge that Sundays were not for play.
Courier-Journal: GOP campaign prompts critics of the Mormon faith
A Mormon congregation of more than 1,000 listened attentively at the Hurstbourne Parkway meeting house on a recent Sunday as the speakers preached and gave testimonies.
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