Conference seeks to morph energy into political clout Liberals have complained for two decades that conservatives misuse religion for political gain, but it wasn't until well-organized evangelicals powered President Bush's election in November that some decided that they had to do more than gripe. The latest post-election attempt at transforming the spiritual energy of the left into political clout began Wednesday at UC Berkeley, where 1,200 people attended the opening of a conference on "Spiritual Activism." The goal of the four-day conference is to create a spirituality-based platform to counter the religious right, but organizers are also intending to...