"Religious Left Says It's Ready for Major Political Push"
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
BY MARK O'KEEFE
c.2004 Newhouse News Service
NEW YORK -- With a full-page ad in the New York Times, a flashlight-illuminated protest on Broadway and a plea from rock star Bono for spiritually motivated, poverty-fighting activism, the religious left has sent a message to the presidential candidates and the voters during the Republican Convention.
After years of impotence, their movement is back, progressive religious leaders say.
While it is hard to tell if that assertion has real political muscle behind it, political analysts on the right as well as the left agree that the movement appears determined to make the case that God is not a Republican.