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In drafting a major address, it’s not uncommon for Barack Obama to assemble a circle of outside advisors or pick the brains of scholars and experts in one-on-one phone calls. But for yesterday’s big speech responding to the Jeremiah Wright controversy, Obama more or less locked himself in a room and put pencil to paper,…

A reader responds to the new minister at Trinity United Church of Christ, Barack Obama’s church, using the word “crucifixion” to describe the media’s treatment of Rev. Jeremiah Wright: If atheists compared harsh criticism to the Crucifixion, I’d take it as hyperbole, and I wouldn’t think much of the comment, because the ideas of Christianity…

It was a long speech, but for the purposes of cable news, Barack Obama’s speech came down to these lines: “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely — just as I’m sure many…

It’s no suprise that Barack Obama’s speech today from Philadelphia, billed as a major address on race and politics, was really a lot more about church and faith. Obama struck a middle course with the speech, refusing to totally disavow Rev. Jeremiah Wright–“As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me”–but…

You read it hear first. Last week, God-o-Meter reported that Connie Mackey, lobbyist for Family Research Council Action–the political arm of what’s likely the strongest Christian Right group in the beltway–was calling on John McCain to promise that he wouldn’t noodle with the Republican platform’s support for constitutional amendments banning abortion and gay marriage. Today,…

God-o-Meter just sent an email query to Barack Obama’s church–Trinity UCC in Chicago–about the controversy over retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright and thought the reply message was worth sharing. It’s a form email sent to members of the media, but it’s a tidy defense of Wright that appears to be the church’s blanket reply to reporters…

If you thought Barack Obama’s Chicago church would try to lay low in hopes that the controversy over the video-taped sermons of Rev. Jeremiah Wright would soon pass, you thought wrong. The church’s new minister struck back during Sunday’s services, and a statement by the church compared the recent tsunami of criticism of Wright to…

And God-o-Meter didn’t even know Wright served Obama in an official capacity (it might have been more a ceremonial position than anything else). Politico has the story. God-o-Meter is lowering its needle for obvious reasons.

Barack Obama has just responded to the flap over the videos of Jeremiah Wright’s controversial and racially-charged sermons with statements to the Huffington Post and Christian Broadcasting Network. (When’s the last time a Democratic candidate chose those two outlets as the only recipients of a major statement?) God-o-Meter was taken by how forcefully Obama rejected…

A week ago, God-o-Meter asked why there was no outcry over John Hagee’s endorsement of George W. Bush during his 2000 run for president, given all the controversy kicked up by Hagee’s John McCain endorsement, particularly over the evangelist’s harsh words for Catholics. God-o-Meter got its answer from Sarah Posner, who authors the American Prospect’s…
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