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The Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council’s blog on religion, secularism, and the public square, has a post up claiming that the current war of words between Focus on the Family’s James Dobson and supporters of Barack Obama may be inflating Dobson’s influence and furthering the myth of the evangelical monolith: Though the Dobson/Obama…

Yesterday’s New York Times interview with John McCain covered lots of ground of interest to religious conservatives: his church affiliation, gay adoption, same-sex marriage, and evolution in public schools. And from where the Christian Right sits, he answered correctly on all those fronts: he attends an evangelical church, opposes gay adoption and gay marriage–though he…

For a while there, God-o-Meter noticed that for all Barack Obama’s supposed prowess in religious outreach and online organizing, his campaign’s faith blog was pretty much dead. There’s been just a handful of postings per month since January. But as of late June, the blog has been going gangbusters. What happened? The interns arrived! According…

The Obama campaign has begun issuing a weekly ‘American Values Report,’ with the first edition out last Friday. The report is sent as a PDF file via email, so God-o-Meter can’t post the whole thing here. But it has chosen a few choice excerpts from the 9-page document, which an Obama aide says was sent…

No, the ad’s not about “values” issues. It’s about immigration. In it, John McCain calls all immigrants–legal and illegal–“God’s children.” Is this Sam Brownback’s hand at work? Brownback has for years talked about every person–including the unborn–as being a “sacred, unique child of a living God.” McCain, for his part, has been a lot less…

The Obama campaign is emailing around this video, produced by a new group called 10,000 Catholics for Obama:David Brody has the back story.

Analyzing what he calls “Obama’s Brilliant Ground Game” in today’s Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove draws plenty of parallels between the Illinois senator’s burgeoning organization and George W. Bush’s in 2000 and 2004. In revealing some trade secrets from those campaigns, Rove leaves out a one crucial ground game component: evangelicals. That word, or any…

Spiritual Politics notes that Joe Lieberman is headlining John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel annual Washington banquet next week. Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Sallai Meridor, is also listed as a keynote speaker. So is Hagee himself. Another moment to ponder how strange it was that John McCain threw Hagee overboard over insensitive remarks he…

Last week’s decision by nearly 100 conservative Christian activists meeting in Denver to coalesce around presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain was a major coup for a candidate whose relationship with the Christian Right has been famously stormy. But the Denver meeting’s organizer, Mathew Staver–founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University…

Another day, another reminder that the God gap in the electorate heavily favors John McCain, even as Barack Obama screams his faith from the rooftops and McCain wears his close to his vest. A new Gallup poll analysis shows that Americans who say faith is important to their lives–about two thirds of the country–favor McCain…
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