Mr. post-partisan has become a star of ads by Republicans and their allies nationwide, CNN reports. It’s curious that the two developments that catapulted him into that dubious stardom involved religion: Obama’s remarks about small town Americans clinging to guns and God and the Wright affair. Obama was supposed to the candidate whose background in…

Catholics United, a progressive Catholic group, is firing back at conservative Catholic Bill Donohue for characterizing Barack Obama’s Catholic advisory board as “Catholic dissidents.” Here’s the release it put out Friday: Bill Donohue Still Playing on Karl Rove’s Team Attack on Obama’s Catholic Advisory Committee Discloses His Partisan Agenda and Jeopardizes his 501c3 Tax Status…

The Obama camp’s National Director of Religious Affairs, Joshua DuBois (pictured), has just contacted God-o-Meter with a response to the Catholic League’s attack on its National Catholic Advisory Committee: Throughout his career, Senator Obama has reached out to people of faith to talk about how we can lift up the ‘least of these’ in our…

The conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is attacking Barack Obama over his Catholic advisory board because some of its members take views at odds with official church positions on hot button social issues like abortion. Why the delay? Obama announced his National Catholic Advisory Council three weeks ago. The Catholic League is…

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