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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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In an interview today on The View, Barack Obama said he would’ve left his church had Rev. Jeremiah Wright not retired from the pulpit last year:
posted March 29, 2008 at 10:15 am
I don’t know. Were all of the right-leaning politicians willing to disassociate themselves from the likes of Donahoe, Robertson, Falwell, Haggard, or any of the other Professional Christian losers that have elected to spew hate-speech over the past twenty years? No? Why not? Do they really believe that “teh ghey” caused 9/11? They must. That’s just ONE example out of many and it’s hypocrisy at its ugliest. If we’re going to continue to scrutinize this, then we need to scrutinize all relationships that politicians have with their pastors and spiritual advisors.
Does George W. Bush condone sex with prostitutes and meth use? What does his long relationship with Ted Haggard say about his own views?
Fools and tyrants use religion to govern.
posted April 1, 2008 at 8:48 am
The question is: As president, will Obama carry out the radical separatist policies that Wright seems to advocate? I would think the answer is an emphatic no. Obama’s adult life has been about bringing people together, not apart.