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By Jeremy | December 1, 2006
Dissention Among Religious Leaders Sparks Protests Over AIDS Summitb) That some within the evangelical community would give them reason to report that in the first place:
"But many leaders decidely care that Warren invited the liberal Democrat Obama to speak at Friday's conference. Dozens of conservative Christians have urged Warren to rescind his invitation. ..."c) That the legacy of the recent influence of evangelicals on public policy would be:
"This debate is just the latest in a number of contentious fights emerging within the Christian conservative community. Many evangelical Christians are openly questioning whether their leaders have focused too much on issues such as abortion while ignoring subjects more relevant to the vast majority of what's in the Bible  such as helping the poor and the sick."d) That evangelicals have made decisions about which public policy issues matter using the following logic:
"Frankly, one of the ways that you provoke the most response from people is through anger and through fear. It raises a bunch of money. It raises the level of exposure. And so there are practical reasons for just focusing on a few issues because that's how you get the largest constituency active."e) That some evangelicals are so myopic that they limit "the paramount moral issues" of our age to:
"... the sanctity of life, marriage, and our public expressions of faith in this country."Thank God that even in the face of such "friendly fire" attacks, Rick Warren has had the courage to remind as that:
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
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