iie: evangelical alliance is professionals. what do you say?nment to do two things, to honour commitments it has made, one is ending harmful and abusive practices and referred those being talked about and rightly those should be ended, they are practices carried out by a therapist, the nhs and admittedly by those in religious organisations that were wrong and those should be stopped and largely have been stopped but we also, the government has said it needs to safeguard spiritual support. so if somebody wants to go to a pastor, if they want to be prayed with they should be able to do that but that's something they should have the freedom to do and we want to avoid the situation where somebody can be accused of conversion therapy simply for praying with someone who comes along freely and asks for prayer so we are supportive of the consultation because we need a clear definition otherwise we argue in many ways across purposes of different definitions and understandings of what is involved. if there are exemptions for religious professionals gay c

but it would be this alliance of an emerging evangelical movement, which again we know the political outcome of to some degree, and wildcatters that we would see the revolt really come to fruition in 1952. churches and oil associations rallied behind eisenhower ticket. in the case of syd richardson and billy graham, actually being industry mental in wooing dwight eisenhower to the republican ticket. the result would be eisenhower's victory of handing back the control of tidelands over to the states. this was a valuable commodity. much of the leasing was funding public education in texas. so again, the fight for control of tidelands also a family values issue as well. this forged an alliance that would have lasting effects. you might be wondering with this is. this is really graham's evangelistic ministry that started a movie company in the 1950s. his first movie produced was mr. texas. his second movie was oil town, usa. it celebrated the potential of the wildcat or should he come to christ and personal salvation, to use that wealth in those riches to promote the gospel that billy gr