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Is God-o-Meter imagining things, or is the most powerful figure in the Christian Right, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, becoming more bullish on the Mormon Mitt Romney than on evangelical wunderkind Mike Huckabee? Check out this tidbit, buried in a Friday Politico brief and brought to God-o-Meter’s attention by the good folks at Evangelicals…

…Watch it here and let God-o-Meter know what you think. (Or read it here and do the same.)

Is God-o-Meter becoming the Romney-o-Meter? Give it another day or two to digest the fallout from Romney’s “religion speech” and it promises to return to normal. But this is pretty big. Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, ruler of the modern Christian Right–and beloved parenting guru/radio host–has issued a glowing review of Romney’s speech. Excerpts…

Fuller Theological Seminary president Richard Mouw, a leading evangelical voice, didn’t have very kind words for Mitt Romney before his speech: In the few times he’s addressed the [religion] issue, he talks about the importance of religious values and dips into evangelical language, and neither of those is very impressive to evangelicals. Evangelicals aren’t very…

In an interview with Beliefnet earlier this week Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said he was unlikely to endorse any of the Republican presidential candidates during the primaries. But God-o-Meter just received a very laudatory review of Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America” speech from the Family Research Council, as part of the group’s end…

God-o-Meter doesn’t know how much stock to put in the opinions of religious/political/academic elites in judging how Mitt Romney fared in this morning’s “Faith in America” speech. After all, this is an instance in which only polls can truly tell if Romney changed minds about his candidacy, particularly among those 36-percent of evangelical Republicans who…

How many times did Mitt Romney mention the word “Mormon,” or some variation thereof, in his “Faith in America” speech this morning? Once, by God-o-Meter’s count. Here’s the reference and what GOM takes to be the key passage of the speech, where Romney at once addresses the possible political danger his religion poses to his…

Is Mike Huckabee being a class act by declining to say what many evangelicals like him feel about Mormon doctrines and beliefs? The Associated Press reports that Huckabee, an ordained Baptist preacher, won’t say whether he believes Mormonism is a cult: I’m just not going to go off into evaluating other people’s doctrines and faiths.…

When Mitt Romney stands before the nation tomorrow to deliver his much-anticipated “religion speech,” evangelical Christians will be listening particularly intently. Though polls show that one in four Americans feel squeamish about voting for a Mormon president, an even higher proportion of evangelicals–more than one in three–feel uncomfortable doing so. They view the Church of…

Yet more evidence that Romney’s “Mormon speech” will largely skirt the Mormon issue, this time from the New Hampshire Times Leader: Mitt Romney said today he will not try to defend his Mormonism or teach any lessons about it during his planned speech on “Faith in America” on Thursday. He also insisted the speech is…
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