Evangelicals Aim to Mobilize an Army for Republicans in 2016

In The New York Times, Jason Horowitz profiles David Lane, founder of the American Renewal Project, who travels the U.S. to convince evangelical clergy members to become politically active in favor of the Republican Party. “His hope is that the politicized pastors will help mobilize congregations that have been disheartened by the repeated failure of socially conservative candidates, and by a party that has softened its opposition to same-sex marriage,” Horowitz writes. “An army,” Lane says. “That’s the goal.”

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