Word: methodist
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...main thrust of his speech at the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Christian Life Center was that black Americans can break the cycle of poverty with help from their church communities...
...Sort of. Although it's true that George W. Bush, Steve Forbes and John McCain are all from what students of comparative religion call the boarding-school wing of the Episcopal church, Bush now belongs to a Methodist congregation. He apparently underwent a denominational transformation after a spiritual encounter with Billy Graham, an evangelist preacher whose vision of Hell is a world in which he does not get to play golf with the President. It's unclear whether Steve Forbes will continue his financial support of an effort to persuade members of his own congregation to abandon Planned Parenthood...