The bill was backed by several religious organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Jewish Federations of North America.

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We welcome the vocal support of the National Association of Evangelicals, Southern Baptist Convention, Focus on the Family, National Latino Evangelical Coalition, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, World Relief, Sojourners and others.

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I'm interested - in a different part of this program we heard Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals say that if you're the nominee, centrist and moderate evangelicals might go for you over Senator McCain.

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