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“It remains disturbing to me that the mainline Protestant churches–communions that have always been a political mix–have been under sustained attack by the religious and political right for a generation with little to no acknowledgment from anyone in American public life–including leading politicians who are members of the denominations under attack. (Let the record show for example, that Hillary Clinton, George Bush and Dick Cheney are all members of the United Methodist Church.) It is preposterous to think that the mainline churches can organize themselves to take on the religious right, when they cannot even acknowledge that they are and have been under concerted attack by the right from within and without. I hope that this changes. . . .
(Talk to Action is best known for its investigative report earlier this year in which Jonathan Hutson exposed the connection between the creators of a loathsome Left Behind video game due out this fall and the empire of megachurch pastor Rick Warren, bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life.)
