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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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posted October 23, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I have to tell you listening to this commercial was pretty puke-making.
Hearing that voice say that among “the things we stand for” are: “equality”, liberty”, and “inalienable rights”, yet this political/religious action committee wants to take those very things away from gay Americans.
The Constitution (the one you HAVE, not the one McCain/Palin/Hucklebee/Bush wants to change it to) used to guarantee that all citizens would be treated equally before the law. This “judicial network” makes a mockery of these precious treasures.
It use to guarantee those “inalienable rights” included both the right to liberty and also the pursuit of happiness.
Yet this group wants to deny gay people the right to pursue their happiness, their liberty.
No, gay marriage is not a “right” under the Constitution, but then again, neither is heterosexual marriage. Speak to me about the freedom to marry the person we love.
This group wants to stack the Courts with activist judges who would choose to deny us those freedoms. Sweet land o’ liberty my ass.
I remember when Courts concerned themselves with what was JUST, not with what was merely popular with the radical, restrictive, ‘religious’ ‘right’. Sad what has happened to America under BushRoveCheney.