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Philanthropist Leaves GOP

Christianity Today March 25, 2009

Christian philanthropist Howard Ahmanson has announced that he has left the GOP to become a Democrat.

“The Republican Party of the State of California seems to have decided to narrow itself down to one article of faith, which may be described as NTESEBREE: No Tax Shall Ever Be Raised Ever Ever,” he writes in a column.

This is how Timedescribed Ahmanson in their cover story on the top 25 evangelicals: “Money makes the Word go round, and this wealthy, conservative Republican couple takes a dizzyingly ecclectic approach to funding evangelism … The couple, both 55, now are warning powerful conservative Christians about the pitfalls of hubris in the aftermath of their victories over liberals last November.”

CT included the Ahmansons in a 2002 story on the “Patrons of the Evangelical Mind.”

(h/t Rod Dreher)

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