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Bob Palisin, retired pastor, Presbyterian Church USA, and alternate delegate from North Carolina; Richard Hayes, Roman Catholic delegate from Texas and Margaret Stoldorf, evangelical delegate and county chair of the Republican Party of Iowa.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more of our coverage of the 2012 Republican National Convention, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/blogs\/2012-republican-national-convention\/12609\/\">ONE NATION: RELIGION &amp; POLITICS<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith-based delegates to the 2012 Republican National Convention talk about how their religious beliefs motivate their politics, what issues they believe are most important this election, and the role they think faith-based voters should play. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2012\/09\/04\/rnc-2012-delegates-on-faith-and-politics\/12849\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":17902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10129,1043,2791,1259],"class_list":["post-12849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-campaign-2012","tag-faith-based","tag-religious-voters","tag-republican-national-convention","topics-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RNC 2012: Delegates on Faith and Politics | September 4, 2012 | Religion &amp; 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