Values voters see common cause, if not agenda, with tea party
WASHINGTON (RNS) With its emphasis on lower taxes and smaller
government, the "tea party" movement hasn't spent a lot of time on the
social issues that animate social conservatives -- abortion, gay
marriage or stem cell research.
But that doesn't worry Leigh-Ann Bellew, the New Jersey leader of a
conservative mother's group, who sees "faith-based" activists among the
tea party foot soldiers heading into the fall mid-term elections.
"What I've seen in the tea party (events) that I've been to is it's