Yesterday, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a new report titled Lobbying for the Faithful:   Religious Advocacy Groups in Washington D.C. Here is an excerpt from the Executive Summary:The number of organizations engaged in religious lobbying or religion-related advocacy in Washington, D.C., has increased roughly fivefold in the past four decades, from fewer than 40 in 1970 to more than 200 today. These groups ...