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Article: Enough was enough: Feeling their values besieged, conservative Christians mobilized.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2006
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Byline: Alan Johnson and Catherine Candisky
Oct. 9--Like many conservative Christians, Marilyn Reinking grew increasingly uncomfortable with some of what she saw in American society. Abortion. Same-sex marriage. Pornography. The Ten Commandments removed from public places. Prayer banned in public schools. To Reinking, the values she held most dear were under attack. So the 70-year-old retired nurse from Fairfield did something: She got involved in politics, through the Internet, in her Butler County community, in her church. "I really think that it's being aware that our freedoms are being eroded," she said. "The freedom for Christians is being attacked, and ...