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If McCain’s Vouchers Violate Church/State Separation, What About Obama’s Faith-Based Initatives?
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dgilgoff
The liberal People for the American Way just sent out a statement attacking the school voucher plan that John McCain discussed in his speech today before the NAACP. Here’s People For President Kathryn Kolbert: “John McCain is trying to score points with his right wing base, and he’s doing it at the expense of children.…
Obama and Evangelicals: A Modest Mission
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dgilgoff
Yesterday, Missouri State University religion professor/Immanent Frame blogger John Schmalzbauer (politely) accused God-o-Meter of underestimating Democrats’ potential to win over some evangelicals in November. He could be right. It’s just that when GOM sees polls reporting 60-percent evangelical support for John McCain vs. 23-percent for Barack Obama, despite Obama’s months-long evangelical charm offensive and McCain’s…
If Obama Can’t Make Evangelical Gains, Should Dems Give Up?
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dgilgoff
In response to God-o-Meter’s earlier post about debunking the myth that the evangelical voting bloc is a myth (like the Catholic voting bloc, say) Missouri State University religion professor/Immanent Frame blogger John Schmalzbauer—whose post GOM was responding to–commented that evangelical cohesion in the voting booth obscures a rich diversity of evangelical opinions on politics and…
New Yorker Cover: Where’s the Outrage on Muslim Portrayal?
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dgilgoff
Despite all the denunciations of this week’s New Yorker cover for the damage it might do to Barack Obama’s, there’s been relatively little outcry over its portrayal of Muslims. The Council on American-Islamic Relations released a statement: “Unfortunately, the New Yorker’s front cover cartoon failed to achieve its stated goal of exposing and lampooning right-wing…
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