You needn’t have strayed from traditional news sources in the past 24 hours to get the basics of Senator Obama’s Father’s Day speech. In brief, he talked about the responsibility of fatherhood itself and made pointed reference to the absence of fathers in many African-American homes. The IIlinois Senator, whose own father left Obama’s mother when Obama was…

Today’s news includes widespread mention that the Obama campaign has put up a website to fight viral internet rumors that the campaign perceives as dangerous to its candidate. The site, at its debut, lists five it works assiduously to debunk–and no fewer than three touch on religion, ample evidence of how potent matters spiritual are…

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds to word that Barack Obama’s Catholic Advisory Council hasn’t disbanded in the face of criticism from his group by posting a comment to God-o-Meter: Nice to know they still chat. But if they are thriving, why did they nix the Advisory Council from the Obama website?

Responding to a press release this morning by the conservative Catholic League speculating that the Obama campaign had disbanded its Catholic advisory board, an Obama aide tells God-o-Meter: “The Obama Catholic Advisory Council is thriving, and actively reaching out to Catholics for Barack Obama.” Obama National Catholic Advisory Committee member Sharon Daly emailed God-o-Meter to…

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