Evangelist Rod Parsley wants to gather voters as he wins souls, a mixture that's causing a stir in the state that put President Bush back in the White House.
The televangelist is opposed to gay marriage and critical of Islam. And he hopes the effort he calls Reformation Ohio will convert 1 million people to Christianity, help the poor and register 400,000 new voters.
"We just seek to be a voice in the public arena," said Parsley, who has a TV ministry seen around the country and a 12,000-member church. "For some reason it has become chic to say that everybody should have a voice in that public square, but when born-again or evangelical Christians begin to lift up their voice, everyone gets nervous."
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His critics say it's impossible to separate the goals of Reformation Ohio from Parsley's work on a successful election campaign to ban gay marriage and his ties to Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, a conservative leading many polls in his bid for the GOP governor's nomination next year.
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