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GOP Sees a Future in Black Churches Social issues are binding the party with a group once firmly in the Democratic camp. By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON — Black conservatives who supported President Bush in 2004 and gained new prominence within the Republican Party are launching a loosely knit movement that they hope will transform the role African Americans play in national politics. The effort will be visible today at the Crenshaw Christian Center, one of Los Angeles' biggest black churches, headed by televangelist Frederick K.C. Price. More than 100 African American ministers are to...