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February 25, 2012

AP: Fight over birth control order shows strength of alliance between Catholics and Evangelicals

by Tom Breen
The Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The support shown by evangelical Christian leaders for Roman Catholics in a dispute with the Obama administration over birth control would have been hard to imagine a generation ago.

Contraception was once a wedge between Catholics, who have historically opposed it, and Protestants, who don't generally object to most methods of birth control.

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