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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.
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posted 4:32:33pm Nov. 19, 2008 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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posted 3:09:07pm Nov. 05, 2008 |
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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 |
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Shortly after God-o-Meter finished its post about how well John McCain’s endorsements from the socially liberal Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger would go over with the GOP’s Christian Right base, it got an email trumpeting John Danforth’s endorsement of the Arizona senator. Danforth’s latest book is a case against the religious right called Faith and Politics: How the “Moral Values” Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together. How do you think that will go over with James Dobson & Co?
posted February 1, 2008 at 10:19 am
Frankly, who cares what Dobson “thinks”? America is NOT a theocracy.
posted February 1, 2008 at 10:20 am
“How do you think that will go over with James Dobson & Co?”
Who the heck CARES what Mr. Dobson thinks anymore? Hate-filled fossil.
posted February 1, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Tony Roberts and Richard Land sound like they aren’t too upset.
posted February 1, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Wow, Read Danforth’s book – this faithful man simply would not connect to the pharisaic business of Dobson. Dobson is a nasty little man and evokes the worst in us all. Danforth – well he called forth our better natures. Not sure I understand his connection to McCain though.
posted February 1, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Good point, Michele. But the difference between folks like Tony Perkins (whom I assume you’re referring to) and James Dobson is that Dobson has a huge platform, with a mailing list of three to five million and a radio show carried daily on two thousand radio stations. Perkins and Land can’t match that. And Dobson ain’t retracting his McCain denouncement.
posted February 2, 2008 at 2:47 am
Since the Evangelicals swang it Bush’s way last time, I wonder what would happen if there wasn’t a candidate embracing them? Will McCain even try? I hope he doesn’t, then maybe Obama can take it! ; )
posted February 3, 2008 at 8:28 am
I don’t understand why homosexuality is so emphasized among some of my fellow evangelicals, to the point of being for some prehaps a more important issue than defense, economy, and healthcare. Huckabee might have a good strong religious background and belief system IMO, but McCain was an aviator and POW in Vietnam that gives him a much better perspective into defense issues. I also agree with him regarding the human rights crisis in this nation (abortion) which is THE issue for me.
posted February 3, 2008 at 10:37 pm
A different kind of evangelical: so do you think that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle, or do you think that just because it’s unaccetpable doesn’t mean it should be evangelicals’ top political issue?