This week, Robert Pastor's Center for North American Studies at American University is co-sponsoring the "Model North American Parliament" for students from the three countries.
Fox's comparison of the current battle to Prohibition in the United States in the 1920s was recently touted by RobertPastor, who was a Latin America national security adviser for President Carter in the late 1970s.
West Park's pastor, Robert Brashear, said the church had a long tradition of supporting activism, having launched a program for gays, bisexuals and transsexuals and founding the charity God's Love We Deliver.