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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) joined conservative church leaders Sunday to encourage evangelicals to help advance the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to the Supreme Court.

At a 90-minute Nashville service that featured religious and political leaders, DeLay said, "We're here to protect the court so it can keep protecting us."

Dubbed "Justice Sunday II: God Save the United States and This Honorable Court," the evening service filled the 2,300-seat Two Rivers Baptist Church and was viewed live on the Web, watched at Christian churches around the country and later broadcast on Sky Angel, a Christian satellite network.

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