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John McCain hasn’t said much about the California Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage earlier this month. In fact, God-o-Meter’s pretty sure that he personally hasn’t said anything whatsoever about the case, even while campaigning in California. The conventional wisdom is that the Golden Gate State’s ruling notwithstanding, gay marriage will be a much less…

Over at Spiritual Politics, Mark Silk notes that there was no great clamoring for McCain to reject John Hagee’s endorsement, especially after Catholic League president Bill Donohue forgave him for his long record of anti-Catholic remarks: One of the odd things about the Hagee affair is that it did not end in the usual way.…

Like John McCain today, Ronald Reagan had his work cut out in winning over the Christian Right during his 1980 campaign, when a new organization called Moral Majority was mobilizing evangelicals and other conservative Christians in a way not seen since fallout from the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial scared many of those voters away from…

Now John McCain is rejecting Rev. Rod Parsley’s endorsement, too. Like God-o-Meter was just saying just a few hours ago, after McCain finally disowned John Hagee, the Arizona senator is still a novice at religious outreach. So which Christian Right figures does John McCain have supporting him now? He is truly running against the leadership…

John McCain’s rejection of John Hagee’s endorsement today is the starkest example yet of McCain’s ham handed approach to dealing with the Christian Right and with handling religious matters generally. It’s a striking contrast to era of George W. Bush, whose political rise was largely a result of having mastered Christian Right and evangelical outreach,…

This story is getting legs. In March, Mother Jones magazine dug up some anti-Muslim rants of Rev. Rod Parsley, an Ohio-based evangelical minister and rising Christian Right star who campaigned with John McCain at a time when Mike Huckabee was still working hard for evangelical votes. Though McCain and Parsley don’t appear to have much…

Kinda strange that Wright is self aware enough to be postponing or outright cancelling so many public appearances since the flap over his videotaped sermons broke in March–presumably to keep from doing further harm to Barack Obama’s presidential bid–but that when he goes through with those appearances, he makes sure to turn in headline-making performances.…

John McCain’s meeting with potential vice presidential runnng mates Mitt Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal this weekend at his Arizona ranch suggests McCain is sensitive to the Christian Right’s ongoing misgivings about his presumptive nomination and wants to put the movement at ease. But McCain’s invititation to Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to join the…

That was quick. Especially by IRS standards. An Internal Revenue Service inquiry into whether the United Church of Christ violated IRS rules against church politicking by giving denomination member Barack Obama a speaking sport at its annual meeting last year has cleared the church of any wrongdoing. The IRS announced the inquiry in February. The…

Hillary Clinton’s campaign emailed word last night that Clinton’s Kentucky blowout was more evidence of her lock on values voters: There continues to be no emerging trend lines other than the one established at the beginning of the Democratic Primary: American faith and values voters connect with and support Senator Clinton. Tonight in Kentucky there…
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