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Christian Coalition Executive Director Ralph Reed has announced that his group will espouse an aggressive eight-point agenda ostensibly to combat poverty and restore hope. While the announcement seems to indicate a shift in direction for the Christian Coalition from its usual diatribes against public education, abortion and gays, critics have concluded that the organization's 'new' platform is nothing more than a re-wording of its old themes.
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Ralph Reed's war on poverty: hope or hype?
Has Ralph Reed undergone a startling conversion on the road to Washington, D.C.?
To listen to the executive director of the Christian Coalition tell it, TV preacher Pat Robertson's political unit has turned over a new leaf. In the 105th Congress, Reed told a Washington press conference Jan. 30, the group will promote "a bold and compassionate agenda designed to combat poverty and restore hope." Dubbed the "Samaritan Project," the eight-point agenda is rife with terms like "hope," "opportunity," "charity" and "justice." At the unveiling before the media, there was little talk about the Coalition's usual themes of bashing public education, banning abortion and demonizing gay people. Reed even tried to put a bipartisan spin on his new agenda. "This is not a Republican or Democratic agenda, nor is it a conservative or liberal agenda," he ...See the full content of this document
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