Blackwell, religion, and politics (slide show)

[MelissaB]

The Ohio Restoration Project, headed by evangelical minister Russell Johnson, aims to rally so-called value voters around conservative candidates. It is conducting voter registration drives, distributing voter guides and holding rallies that combine patriotic songs and images with sermons about social issues such as abortion and gay marriage.

Johnson founded the Ohio Restoration Project after the 2004 election, emboldened by the belief that evangelicals, who organized church-goers around that year's successful ban on gay marriage, helped President Bush win Ohio. A group of religious leaders in Ohio has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service, charging that the group is mixing religion and politics.


Link: http://www.cleveland.com/open/story.ssf?/open/more/pastor.html

Watch the slide show! Ken Blackwell makes an appearance. http://www.cleveland.com/open/slideshow/index.ssf?patriotpastor.html

[MelissaB]

1. Cross posted and added a little

here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x821786