In 2004, the Massachusetts Supreme Court gave President Bush a gift by making the Bay State the first to legalize gay marriage; The ruling enraged social conservatives nationwide and led to a wave of state ballot initiatives to ban gay marriage that helped drive support for Bush’s reelection, including in all-important Ohio. Yesterday, a judge…

Could advocating divestment in Iran be Obama’s way of making nice to a Jewish constituency that he’s hit some bumps with (watch video), as The Jewish Week speculates? Could be. But God-o-Meter suspects it’s just as likely that toughening up on Iran is Obama’s way of shoring up his foreign policy/tough-on-terror credentials, which have been…

Fred Thompson has been beat up for giving the impression that he’s an infrequent churchgoer and none-too-devout (including by Focus on the Family founder James Dobson), but now his old pastor is coming to his defense. Andy Brown, Thompson’s childhood pastor at the First Street Church of Christ in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee tells the Los Angeles…

For a candidate who winces at getting asked all the “values” questions during the debates, God-o-Meter notes that Huckabee sure has a knack for using values to carve out his niche in the GOP field. When it comes to Mitt Romney, that means calling him a flip-flopper on abortion. When it comes to Fred Thompson,…

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