|
Previous Posts
Closed for the Season
With Election Day finally having come and gone, God-o-Meter is closing up shop till 2012--or at least 2010. Till then, get your faith and politics fix over at Beliefnet editor-in-chief Steve Waldman's blog.
7
posted 4:32:33pm Nov. 19, 2008 |
read full post
»
On The Religious Left, Great Expectations
The first priorities for Barack Obama's administration will be the economy and a variety of foreign policy issues. But the burgeoning religious left, which worked so hard to get Obama elected, expects some movement on its issues, including a robust White House office of faith-based initiatives, pove
posted 1:49:31pm Nov. 07, 2008 |
read full post
»
Howard Dean's Vindication
God-o-Meter wrote a piece for today's Roll Call on the vindication of Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean's much-derided 50-State Strategy, which is largely about reaching out to the nation's more religious voters in the red states:
Years before Barack Obama showed that a liberal Demo
posted 2:01:06pm Nov. 06, 2008 |
read full post
»
A Post-Election Chat with Ralph Reed
Amid today's talk that Barack Obama has narrowed the God Gap, God-o-Meter checked in with Ralph Reed, who spearheaded religious outreach for George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns and who pioneered such outreach for Republicans as executive director of the Christian Coalition.
What surprised you i
posted 3:09:07pm Nov. 05, 2008 |
read full post
»
More Innacurate Faith Storylines From the Media
God-o-Meter is struck by the number of faith-based storylines the news media appear to have gotten dead wrong this year.
One was the line that Obama was poised to make big gains among white votes, especially evangelicals, who were undergoing a generational shift in their political thinking and reexa
posted 11:53:20am Nov. 05, 2008 |
read full post
»
|
posted September 28, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Yes, they are tiring of the GOP’s ways, big time. The GOP can just forget about us voting GOP because we can’t vote for the pro-abort Democrats.
posted October 3, 2007 at 10:39 am
Ron is the best. He has a sound view of religion, he is a devout Christian, and he understands true American government better than the rest.
Get out and talk about him because the liberal media knows that he is the ONLY GOP candidate that can whip the abort o crats; therefore, they bury him at any cost..
posted October 4, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Ron Paul understands that much of what the government is trying to do with great cost and little success would be accomplished better by private organizations, and especially religious organizations. The Federal Government’s restrictions on everything religious combined with its massive social programs is essentially an establishment of the government itself as a state religion.
posted October 4, 2007 at 8:35 pm
This meter is misleading to label more faithful candidates as “theocratic”. Theocracy is a government ruled by priests/religion. Paul is a strong Christian but believes that religion should be left to individuals, families, and churches — not the government. He’s therefore very un-theocratic.