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Category: Constitutional Rights Content: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 Christian Coalition Mobilizes for Election By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - With choruses of amens, Christian activists on Friday affirmed that they have the power, with a little prayer and a lot of legwork, to assure that President Bush (news - web sites) stays in the White House. ..... Paquet was one of about 1,000 people attending a Christian Coalition of America conference, where they are being trained in organizing voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts in their churches and neighborhoods. He said he'll be helping transport people to the polls....... Christian Coalition president Roberta Combs said that four years ago the coalition sent out 70 million voter guides and made 1 million get-out-the-vote phone calls....... Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority and now president of Liberty University, said that over the 39 days before the election he planned to meet hundreds of pastors every day, encouraging them to encourage their congregations to register and "instruct them to vote Christian." "We are going to win by a landslide in November," he said in his speech. "But I want you to go home and tell everybody you're one point down." Full AP article ran in many papers. The Christian Coalition on pending legislation to take authority of the courts away to review the pledge of allegiance and/or placement of the 10 commandments. http://www.cc.org/petitions.cfm?id=21®ister=yes Christian fundamentalists petition to take away jurisdiction from the courts. Web address to print the petition "to take back America": http://www.cc.org/printpetition.htm