Fuller Theological Seminary president Richard Mouw, a leading evangelical voice, didn’t have very kind words for Mitt Romney before his speech: In the few times he’s addressed the [religion] issue, he talks about the importance of religious values and dips into evangelical language, and neither of those is very impressive to evangelicals. Evangelicals aren’t very…

In an interview with Beliefnet earlier this week Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said he was unlikely to endorse any of the Republican presidential candidates during the primaries. But God-o-Meter just received a very laudatory review of Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech from the Family Research Council, as part of the group’s end…

God-o-Meter doesn’t know how much stock to put in the opinions of religious/political/academic elites in judging how Mitt Romney fared in this morning’s “Faith in America” speech. After all, this is an instance in which only polls can truly tell if Romney changed minds about his candidacy, particularly among those 36-percent of evangelical Republicans who…

How many times did Mitt Romney mention the word “Mormon,” or some variation thereof, in his “Faith in America” speech this morning? Once, by God-o-Meter’s count. Here’s the reference and what GOM takes to be the key passage of the speech, where Romney at once addresses the possible political danger his religion poses to his…

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