(BTW I am neither an Evangelical or a religious person at all and I personally give Sen. Obama mixed reviews regarding his tenure in the Senate)
The conference that Sen. Obama, Sen. Clinton and Gov. Dean were speaking at was sponsored by the Sojourners movement.
“They gave Obama thunderous applause when he proclaimed his support for separation of church and state and giving teenagers access to contraception." link:
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/nation/14923089.htmSojourners are actually fairly left-wing on foreign policy and economic issues; and moderate on social issues.
Sojourners are the Evangelicals they were speaking to:
link for Sojourners:
http://www.sojo.net /
link for Sojourners Magazine:
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.home _______
Interview on Democracy Now with Rev. Jim Wallis (founder and leader of Sojourners) - link:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/26/1355204snip:"JIM WALLIS: Well, I think it's fine for people to bring their moral conviction, even their religious conviction in the public life. King did that. I do that. The religious right does that, but when you say those who oppose us, who have a different view, are not people of faith, or Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said during the campaign, you can only vote for George W. Bush. Now they're saying you must also agree with all of his judicial nominees. Now this is really the hijacking of religion. It's making it into a partisan wedge and a weapon to divide us, not a bridge to bring us together. This is really the abuse and misuse of religion. We're having these town meetings across the country disguised as book signings. And what I'm learning is people are tired of the monologue of the religious right. And the good news, having been to the East and the Mid-West and the South and even Texas and the West, is the monologue of the religious right is now over. And a new dialogue has finally begun. "
"snip:"AMY GOODMAN: This event that took place just this Sunday, filibustering people of faith, took place in Louisville, Kentucky. You were there that day.
JIM WALLIS: Well, there was another service, a counter-service. 1,200 people showed up on about a week's notice. And that's what I'm finding all over the country, packed churches, to say, well, their faith isn't our faith, and the monologue doesn't represent the dialogue we now need to have. So, it was lots of energy in the room. Good preaching, good choirs. And people said, wait a minute, I don't agree, and they can’t say this. One guy from Kentucky said, he said, I have been an evangelical Christian my whole life. Imagine my surprise when I woke up and found the newspaper saying I'm not a person of faith. Imagine my surprise. It was great -- a great event to say, wait a minute -- because someone doesn't agree with the judicial nominee or a Senate procedure, you know, filibusters have been used for good and for ill. But, my goodness, this is not a theological matter here. So, they're really overstepping, they're overreaching. Last night, we had a debate. I was on with Dobson and Moler."