Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

God-O-Meter

The Matthew 25 Network, a faithy political action committee founded by John Kerry’s former religious outreach director, will begin airing this pro-family Obama ad during Saturday night’s candidate forum with Rick Warren at Saddleback Church:The Matthew 25 Network describes the ad as entirely positive. And it is. But by broadcasting a squeaky clean family man…

God-o-Meter knew John McCain’s comments about possibly picking pro-choice running mate wouldn’t be taken lightly by the Christian Right. Here’s an email GOM received last night from Family Research Council Action senior vice president Connie Mackey, comparing what McCain said this week to comments he made in April that seemed to rule out a pro-choice…

Karl Rove predicated George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection largely on the campaign’s ability to turn out millions of evangelicals who’d stayed home in 2000. From the December 12, 2001 edition of The New York Times: Karl Rove, President Bush’s top political adviser, said today that Republicans did not rally enough religious conservatives to the polls…

This is not going to make the Christian Right happy. Not one bit. Just as the movement’s leaders were starting to warm up to John McCain, after years of being nauseated by him, the Arizona senator goes and sticks his thumb in their eye, suggesting that he’s not ruling out a pro-choice running mate, namely…

The Democrats are keeping the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights busy. First the group released this attack on the Demcorats’ attempts to incorporate faith into the Democratic convention: “The Democrats are in a jam. Long the party of choice for atheists, they have profoundly alienated people of faith from joining their ranks,…

ABC News has the story: Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., an abortion rights opponent who endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. over Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY prior to the Pennsylvania primary, will address the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, Aug. 26. Casey’s father, the late Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey D-Pa., was denied a prime speaking spot at…

Can this year’s Democratic platform simultanesioulsy be the the most pro-choice and pro-life in the party’s history? That’s what Democrats are attempting with <a href="rogressive Revival blognew proposed platform language that supports Roe v. Wade in the strongest possible terms but which also pledges new support to women who decide to carry their fetuses to…

Shortly after God-o-Meter filed on the absence of any faith themes on this morning’s Democratic National Convention Committee media call about daily convention themes, it got an email from someone identifying himself as “a member of the DNCC Specialty Media team responsible for reaching out to faith/religion media.” The note included a press release from…

It’s not the name you typically hear on the lips of Christian Right heavies leaning on John McCain to pick a rock-ribbed social conservative as a running mate: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But that’s Southern Baptist Convention public policy chief–and Beliefnet blogger–Richard Land cited in his recent CBS News interview as his top veep pick:…

God-o-Meter just hung up from a conference call with the Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (pictured) and senior Obama advisor Anita Dunn laying out the nightly themes for the Democratic National Convention in Denver this month. It was suprised to hear not a peep about faith themes, particularly given that convention cochair Sebelius is reportedly in…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners