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When Beliefnet checked in with Gary Bauer following his defense of Fred Thompson in light of James Dobson’s condemnation of the former Law & Order actor, he made clear he wasn’t endorsing Thompson. God-o-Meter takes Bauer at his word. But it has a hunch that Bauer and other marquee Christian Right activists are hedging their…

Even though God-o-Meter reported last week on some second-tier Christain Right endorsements for Mike Huckabee, it is somewhat scandalous that he’s failed to seal up more of the movement’s A-list. What’s a former Baptist preacher who’s rising in the Iowa polls gotta do to get some love from the values crowd? A day after God-o-Meter…

It’s one thing for a Republican presidential candidate to get the tacit blessing of an evangelical leader, the kind John McCain got from Jerry Falwell by speaking at Liberty University last year. But God-o-Meter feels that it’s quite another to have a powerful evangelical figure actively evangelizing on your behalf. That’s what Mark DeMoss–a former…

God-o-Meter–like so much of the news media–was impressed with Barack Obama’s appearance last Sunday at a Greenville, SC megachurch as part of his campaign’s “40 Days of Faith and Family” tour of the state. After all, the conservative evangelical congregation’s previous political guests were Sen. Lindsey Graham, Gov. Mark Sanford, and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer,…
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