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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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David Brody has the scoop:
posted July 30, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Obama’s Catholic outreach is going to help him a lot down play the idea that he is a closet Muslim. But it will not reach the Evangelical Zealots that deride him. They are a lost cause. The good news is that they are dying out as more and more Christians are finding that compation is a Christian Ideal and not a Secular one.
Those who have worked for Christian outreach programs or the Salvation Army (such as I have) know that being a Christian doesn’t stop at the Church doors.
posted August 5, 2008 at 5:39 pm
The only thing I know about Obama’s faith is that he was born to a MUSLIM father, and his mother later married an Islamic Fundamentalist. Later he became a “Christian” in the CHurch of Black Liberation Theology led by his ‘spiritual mentor’ the Reverend Jeremiah Wright–a preacher who damns AMerica, and hates whites. All I know about Obama is that he sat in that church for 20 years and never felt the need to abandon it, being well-aware of his pastor’s radical views.
But forget about his religion–it’s also about Barack Hussein Obama’s liberal, socialist left wing philosophies. A guy who supports third-term abortion and gay marriage. A tax and spend liberal, who wants wealth redistribution.
A guy who thinks America is the problem. Is that who we (Evangelicals)want for a President?