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Just before an exhilarating bike ride a few hours before he jetted off to Iraq on Sunday, President Bush attended the usual services at St. John’s Church, just across Lafayette Park from the White House. But this time Bush was treated to a zesty sermon by the Reverend Dr. Luis Leon on ...
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Sharpton Defends Warren Choice: 'Gracious And Courageous'
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... Four years ago, the shoe was on the other foot. For his reelection inauguration, George W. Bush asked Rev. Dr. Louis Leon of Washington's St. John's Church Lafayette Square to deliver the invocation. Leon and Bush had a personal relationship developed over the years that the president attended his church. The two also shared policy commitments towards fighting AIDS and, to a lesser extent, pushing immigration reform (in one sermon that Bush attended, Leon blasted Congress for its failure to pass legislation on the topic). The president, in fact, ...
Sharpton Defends Warren Choice: 'Gracious And Courageous'
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... Four years ago, the shoe was on the other foot. For his reelection inauguration, George W. Bush asked Rev. Dr. Louis Leon of Washington's St. John's Church Lafayette Square to deliver the invocation. Leon and Bush had a personal relationship developed over the years that the president attended his church. The two also shared policy commitments towards fighting AIDS and, to a lesser extent, pushing immigration reform (in one sermon that Bush attended, Leon blasted Congress for its failure to pass legislation on the topic). The president, in fact, ...
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