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Family Research Council’s Got McCain’s Back?
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dgilgoff
This morning’s Washington Post front pager on John McCain offers a chorus of conservative voices vowing war over changes they expect the presumptive Republican nominee to attempt to engineer in the GOP platform. The one conservative urging calm? The Family Research Council’s Ken Blackwell: Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and…
Obama Melds Social Gospel, Personal Salvation Theology
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dgilgoff
The rivalry between the Social Gospel–the belief that people should work to perfect society in accordance with certain Biblical ideals, such as equality and justice–and the theology of personal salvation–which posits that people are deeply imperfect and in need of a personal transformation that could come only through accepting Jesus–dates back a century or more…
The Denver Conclave: How Much of a Turning Point for McCain?
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dgilgoff
Writing on Tuesday’s Denver meeting among Christian Right activists, at which said activists vowed to put aside their differences with John McCain and back him in November, David Brody called it a “key turning point” for the Arizona senator. God-o-Meter, for its part, is wondering exactly how far McCain’s fortunes with nation’s conservative Christian activist…
Poll: Catholics Split Between McCain, Obama
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dgilgoff
A new TIME poll has Catholics splitting between McCain and Obama, with McCain’s 45-44 edge within the margin of error. Another reminder that, for all Barack Obama’s religious outreach prowess and for all John McCain’s religious stumbles, the traditional God Gap hasn’t changed much. The most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll gives McCain 69%-21% advantage…
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