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Article: GOP to spread political word to area pastors.(Religion)(The national party dispatches conservative David Barton to speak on Christianity's U.S. history and churches' rights and boundaries)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 17, 2004
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Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard
The Republican National Committee is bringing a religious conservative lecturer to Eugene on Tuesday for a speech to area pastors about their rights and responsibilities in political activity and Christianity's role in America's founding.
The speaker, David Barton, is the head of a group called Wallbuilders and the second-highest ranking GOP official in President Bush's home state of Texas.
Barton is one of the leading spokesmen for the conservative movement's effort to roll back church and state separation on the grounds that 20th-century laws and court rulings violate the intent of the nation's ...