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First it was the National Council of Churches. Now it's K.A. Paul, founder of Gospel to the Unreached Millions. Paul, in Miami for a series of "Good News Crusades," called a news conference to say Elián should stay in the U.S. "He sat beside local pastors of various denominations who have said they do not want Elián to return to Cuba," reports The Miami Herald.

"Unlike in past elections, my phones haven't been ringing off the hook from moral concerns groups; my mailbox isn't stuffed with their postcards," says often-quoted scholar of the religious right James Guth, a political scientist at Greenville's Furman University in Greenville. "I've seen absolutely nothing this year. And I'd be surprised if it was different in any other state." Some activists are frustrated. Others are tired. Others ask why they should push their agenda when the candidates seem to be doing a fine job of answering their concerns without much need for activists.

The fight over whether or not U.S. House leadership were swayed by anti-Catholicism in choosing the next House Chaplain only illustrates why something as divisive and personal as faith should be privatized, not institutionalized in an official government office, says Post columnist Richard Coen. "The members have a chaplain, but if this fight continues much longer, they're going to need a medic as well," he says.

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