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This is an AP story that will go out all over the wires.

Add to that, the Planned Parenthood alert about the The New York Times Magazine article by Robert Cohen [Post #1], and you have a conservative witch hunt on a conservative businessman.

WHAT WOULD JESUS EAT? ***Poor Jesus Christ. What with coming up with one-liners for T-shirts and bumper stickers and approving the cars that we drive -- let alone running the White House for the next four years -- He must be almost as busy as Oprah.

According to The New York Times, His latest brand extensions include the Riverview Community Bank in Minnesota, a "Christian financial institution" whose deposits have grown from $5-million (U.S.) to more than $75-million in the past 18 months, and the chain of Curves fitness centres (based in Waco, Tex.), which Entrepreneur magazine calls the "fastest growing franchise in the world" (and whose born-again founder Gary Heavin donates 10 per cent of profits to Operation Save America, a radical-right anti-abortion group). Said Heavin in an interview with Today's Christian: "I couldn't dream this big . . . but I serve a God who is." .........***