WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Arlen Specter was preaching to the choir and he knew it. As the veteran Pennsylvania senator studied the crowd, he tried to spot the journalists sprinkled among the clergy, social activists and politicos jammed into the U.S. Senate’s Mansfield conference room. “I have been in this room many times,” he said, at this week’s press conference introducing the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act of 1997. “I have never seen such a disproportionate imbalance between the number... Read more