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This morning at 10 Eastern, the Family Research Council plans to unveil the results of a poll that suggests that candidates’ support for state-based constitutional amendments banning gay marriage is a major benefit at the polls. Politico’s Mike Allen has the scoop: PRODUCER ALERT — The Family Research Council, Washington’s leading lobby for social conservatives,…

Among the Christian RIght’s chief criticisms of John McCain has been his reluctance to point out differences between himself and Barack Obama on hot button social issues like abortion and gay marriage. A new McCain campaign briefing shows the Arizona may be shedding that reluctance. It enumerates 17 reported Obama flip flops, including some that…

The Dallas Morning News has the best update in weeks on the McCain camp’s stepped-up religious outreach effort, its scaled-back vision for the role of evangelicals in 2008 as compared to ’04, and the continuing evangelical critique of the whole operation. The story reports that McCain has finally hired someone to direct it’s religious outreach…

Barack Obama’s made a couple of serious plays for evangelical/culturally conservative support in the last week–unveiling his plans to expand George W. Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initatiatves and asserting that mental distress should not be legal grounds for women to skirt abortion restrictions–but they’ve wound up drawing lots of criticism from the Religious…

A short interview Barack Obama gave last week to the evangelical Relevant magazine has been making a lot of headlines, specifically over what he said about supporting abortion restrictions: “I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict,…

The Brody File reports on the Christian Defense Coalition’s new “Abortion President” campaign against Barack Obama. This is not a group with lots of organizational heft–it’s known mostly for hosting press conferences–but if Brody’s right, it’s the first step in a broader Christian Right campaign to brandish Obama’s pro-choice credentials as a way to trip…

Or so says a headline in yesterday’s Washington Times. The evidence? Last week’s powwow of Christian Right activists in Denver. For a more nuanced–and skeptical–take on that meeting’s benefit to McCain, see God-o-Meter.

This morning’s Washington Post front pager on John McCain offers a chorus of conservative voices vowing war over changes they expect the presumptive Republican nominee to attempt to engineer in the GOP platform. The one conservative urging calm? The Family Research Council’s Ken Blackwell: Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council and…

The rivalry between the Social Gospel–the belief that people should work to perfect society in accordance with certain Biblical ideals, such as equality and justice–and the theology of personal salvation–which posits that people are deeply imperfect and in need of a personal transformation that could come only through accepting Jesus–dates back a century or more…

Writing on Tuesday’s Denver meeting among Christian Right activists, at which said activists vowed to put aside their differences with John McCain and back him in November, David Brody called it a “key turning point” for the Arizona senator. God-o-Meter, for its part, is wondering exactly how far McCain’s fortunes with nation’s conservative Christian activist…
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