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No Free Lunch
25 August 2005
A free lunch in Washington? The Center for Christian Statesmanship provides just such a sweet deal for hundreds of congressmen and congressional staffers. The best part is this lunch's name: "Politics and Principle." All it costs is your ears: the Center uses the lunches to preach the principle that "compromise is a sin." The L.A. Times' Stephanie Simon eschews the "they're just like us" approach popular with secular papers reporting on Christian conservative activists in favor of what reads like restrained outrage, as she writes of a "new generation of [political] leaders who will answer not to voters but to God."

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