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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.
What surprised you i
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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While John McCain and the GOP continue to keep quiet about last week’s California Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage, the party’s Religious Right base continues to be just bit more exercised over the decision. Here’s popular radio host Dennis Prager, a Jewish ally of the Christian Right:
posted May 30, 2008 at 12:21 pm
“Nothing imaginable — leftward or rightward — would constitute as radical a change in the way society is structured as this redefining of marriage for the first time in history”
I call blarney on that. In fact, I call double blarney.
First of all, it is not such a “radical change” – and the California Supreme Court’s decision is quite clear on that: “permitting same-sex couples access to the designation of marriage will not … alter the legal framework of the institution of marriage”. It remains 2 people and the only difference is that those 2 people are no longer restricted to people of the opposite sex, just like in Loving v. Virginia that said marriage could not be restricted to 2 people of the same race.
Society has hardly been “restructured”. I mean, doesn’t the Constitution ‘guarantee’ equal treatment before the law anymore?
Secondly, “the first time in history”! Talk about hyperbole. Talk about falsehoods. See above re the change in the race of the people involved, and then visit the time when the State finally did restrict it to 2 people.
If the “right” has to resort to bearing false witness against God’s gay and lesbian children, their fight against equality (and justice, and liberty for all) is not just bound to fail, it deserves to fail.