2004 RNA Conference audio and panels: Friday
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SEPT. 10, 2004

Jim Towey, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives, gives the keynote address at the 55th annual Religion Newswriters Association conference in Washington, D.C.
Moderator: Julia Duin, The Washington Times

• Introduction
• Keynote address
• Q&A

Clips by the Peat Group, Inc.

Panels

10:50 a.m. - 12:10
Panel: Politics, Polls and God
• Andy Kohut, Pew Research Center
• John Green, University of Akron
• Anna Greenberg, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
(Q&A) Moderator: Alan Cooperman, The Washington Post

2 - 3:20 p.m.
Panel: God and the Courts: The State of Separation
• Tony Mauro, Legal Times/American Lawyer Media
• James Standish, Seventh-day Adventist Church
• Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
(Q&A) Moderator: Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR

3:40 - 5 p.m.
Panel: Catholic Politicians: Consensus vs. Faith?
• George Weigel, Ethics and Public Policy Center
• Rosa DeLauro, U.S. House of Representatives, D-Conn. (read the text of her statement)
• Amy Sullivan, Political Aims
(Q&A) Moderator: David Gibson, Freelancer