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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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It now appears that John McCain is zealously courting the Christian Right. The latest sign: he and Sarah Palin have scheduled a rally in Colorado Springs, CO, capital of the evangelical universe, for this Saturday.
posted September 2, 2008 at 11:23 am
OK, this is the molten core of Abstinence Only sex education programs. Are they trying to put up a smoke screen in order to take the focus off the very real issue of Ms palin’s daughter pregnancy? This is nuttier than even her nomination!
posted September 2, 2008 at 1:24 pm
How about “Unwed teenage mothers for McCain”? or “Hicks from Nowhere for McCain”? No forget that last one, Hicksville NY is for Obama.
posted September 2, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Palin is a woman who had an amniocentesis during pregnancy, which is an optional procedure that can cause a miscarriage, keeps boasting that she leaves her newborns shortly after birth to return to work, and now her teen daughter is pregnant. I know that people are human and they make mistakes. But is Sarah Palin really who we want as a representative of the Christian faith???? I would rather have Obama. He has flaws too, including poor judgement in associating with his old pastor. But at least the Obamas seem to be living a life consistant with their faith….
posted September 3, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I agree that she is deffenitly not a conservitvie as she seams. She does some pretty wierd things, Oh and she is being investagated for firing some one just because he is related to her sisters soon to be x! this girl is nuts.