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This weekend’s brouhaha over Barack Obama’s comments on what plagues small town Americans threatens to undo much of the candidate’s groundbreaking work as a Democratic candidate reaching out the religious voters because it raises questions about how he really feels about religion and religious people, long Democrats’ Achilles’ heel among faith voters. Though John Kerry…

After a conference call today announcing the launch of its Catholic National Advisory Council, the Obama camp released the council’s full roster. It’s a long and impressive llist of elected officials, scholars, and activists. The Obama camp is treating Catholics as Hillary Clinton’s base–in Pennsylvania, they may be–and knows it has to go all out…

God-o-Meter reported last week that the Obama and Clinton campaigns were stepping up their Catholic outreach operations big time in advance of the Pennsylvania primary. GOM just got word that Obama’s team is announcing an official “Catholic Advisory Council” this afternoon. Here’s the leadership: Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr. (read the God-o-Meter interview here) Congressman…

Interesting to note that the continuing slow drip of Wright criticism from conservatives has created the unusual circumstance of Republicans attacking a religious leader. Public opinions polls show that most Americans share that criticism, so far be it from God-o-Meter to propose that the GOP risks some backlash for knocking a clergyman. But the controversy…

The Brody File has posted recent video of Barack Obama’s new pastor, Otis Moss III, who replaced Jeremiah Wright upon his recent retirement. It’s fiery, but not nearly as radioactive as Wright calling America the “U.S. of KKK-A”:If this kind of video winds up causing a major outcry, God-o-Meter can’t see how Obama can worship…

So far as God-o-Meter is aware, Jeremiah Wright’s remarks at the 53rd Annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner of the NAACP’s Detroit branch on April 27 will be his first publicly since the uproar over his sermons began a month ago. AP has the brief. Will he be combative or conciliatory?

Barack Obama advertises himself as the candidate who can transcend deep-seated divisions in our politics and culture, and his interview in today’s Advocate–the gay national news mag–offers a good example of him engaging in that difficult work. In it, Obama attempts to bridge the oft-portrayed rift between the church and the homosexual community. Rather than…

God-o-Meter is surprised this one hasn’t gotten more attention. The Associated Baptist Press has an interview with John McCain’s longtime pastor that provides the fullest account to date of the senator’s long but complex relationship with the North Phoenix Baptist Church. McCain, raised an Episcopalian, has attended the church for some 17 years without ever…

To call Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, a supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy doesn’t really do his role justice. He’s more like an honorary member of Clinton’s campaign. So when he goes for Barack Obama’s jugular this morning in The Wall Street Journal over Obama’s response to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s…

The Brody File reports that John McCain is readying a so-called “Committee of 50” religious and conservative leaders as a key component of its evangelical outreach strategy. To which God-o-Meter responds: How’s this different than the (lackluster) religious outreach strategy McCain has pursued thus far? In February, the McCain camp released a list of dozens…
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