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Whoopi Goldberg will serve as host of the Tony Awards June at Radio City Music Hall the show s producers announced Thursday. I love Broadway and I m thrilled to be doing anything for the first time said Goldberg who s hosted the Academy Awards four times. I m gonna have a blast. Goldberg a regular on ABC s The View has been on Broadway with her own one woman show as well as in revivals of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Ma Rainey s Black Bottom. The nd annual Tonys which honor the best of the Broadway season will be broadcast live on CBS. Nominations will be announced Tuesday with the Steppenwolf Theatre transplant August Osage County expected to be a major contender. FILMING IN NASHVILLE Actors and pop singers to Go Country on CMT Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach Academy Award winner Irene Cara and actress Sean Young will show off their twang on CMT s Gone Country the followup to the cable channel s highest rated series ever. Also in contention wil! l be American Idol finalist Mikalah Gordon singer Jermaine Jackson N Sync s Chris Kirkpatrick and actor Lorenzo Lamas. As with the first season the show will immerse the competitors in all things country for a chance to break out as a music star. John Rich returns as host and judge of the show which is now filming in Nashville Tenn. and will begin airing in August. Julio Iglesias Jr. won the show s first edition defeating Dee Snider Maureen McCormick Diana DeGarmo Bobby Brown and Sisqo. MILLENNIUM PARK Dervishes will whirl at World Music Festival The Whirling Dervishes of Damascus with Sheikh Hamza Chakour and the Al Kindi Ensemble Performers will open this year s World Music Festival the Chicago Cultural Affairs Department said. The weeklong event at Millennium Park begins Sept. with Calexico and Mariachi Luz de Luna closing the fest on Sept. . For more information call . BROADWAY S BIG NIGHT suntimes.com Send feedback Contact Us About Us Advertise With Us Media Kit Make U! s Your Home Page Chicago Sun Times Subscribe Customer Service Reader Rewards Easy Pay e paper P.M. Edition Online Photo Store Affiliates YourSeason.com jump local RogerEbert.com SearchChicago Autos SearchChicago Homes SearchChicago Jobs NeighborhoodCircle.com Centerstage Partner NBC .com Express Links Obituaries Death Notices Sudoku Crossword TV Listings Blogs Video Yellow Pages Horoscopes Letters Commentary Lottery Eating In Restaurant Reviews Copyright Digital Chicago Inc

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US evangelicals call for step back from politics Reuters via Yahoo News

A group of U.S. evangelical leaders called on Wednesday for a pullback from party politics so that followers would not become useful idiots exploited for partisan gain. One in four U.S. adults count themselves as evangelical Protestants giving them serious clout in a country where religion and politics often mix. Conservative evangelicals have become a key support base for the Republican Party. But the movement has had growing pains and the statement issued on Wednesday called an Evangelical Manifesto is the latest sign of emerging fractures as some activists seek to broaden its agenda beyond hot button social issues such as opposition to abortion and gay rights. Christians from both sides of the political spectrum left as well as right have made the mistake of politicizing faith the manifesto declares. That way faith loses its independence the church becomes the regime at prayer Christians become useful idiots for one political party or another and the Christian faith becom! es an ideology in its purest form it said. The manifesto was signed by leading and mostly centrist evangelicals such as Leith Anderson president of the million member National Association of Evangelicals Mark Bailey president of the Dallas Theological Seminary and evangelical academic and author David Gushee. Many of the more than signatories have been critical in the past of evangelical partisan involvement which was seen as the crucial element behind U.S. President George W. Bush s re election victory in . Leading figures on the conservative Religious Right such as Tony Perkins president of the Family Research Council did not sign the document and his office said he had not been asked to sign it. LIMITED POLITICAL IMPACT Michael Cromartie vice president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center said of the statement It s a sign of maturation of the evangelical movement . It s an important theological document but it will have limited political influence because it is making ! a essentially a theological argument. The document also highlights divisions that have been there for a while as some leading evangelicals attempt to redirect the movement s considerable energies toward areas such as action on global poverty and climate change . Polls show growing numbers of evangelicals receptive to a wider social agenda and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been attempting to woo them in a bid to peel some away from the Republican camp ahead of the November election showdown with John McCain . But analysts say most are still center right politically and polls consistently show most remain opposed to abortion rights. 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