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Palin and the Ex-Catholic Factor
By
Paul Raushenbush
Steve Waldman just posted some new news – at least for me. That Governer Palin was a Roman Catholic before she was an Evangelical. He writes: Have we ever had an ex-Catholic on a major presidential ticket? I can’t think of any. Palin was Baptised as a Cahtolic and later became an evangelical Protestant. This will…
Picking Palin: McCain’s Folly, or “crazy like a fox”?
By
David Gibson
John McCain has certainly revived his maverick label by picking–or plucking from obscurity–freshman Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. (WaPo coverage here, and NYT coverage here.) Like every candidate, there are pluses and minuses with her. On the plus side, Christian conservatives (as God-o-Meter knows and shows), are going to be delighted. She is a…
Karma and the Christian Right: Will Gustav delay the GOP convention?
By
David Gibson
Earlier this month Stuart Shepard, correspondent for the Focus on the Family network (you know, that OTHER religious gathering in Colorado), had a segment in which he less than half-jokingly asked prayers for torrential rains to inundate Invesco Field during last night’s acceptance speech by Obama. God would want that, Shepard said (as you can see here),…
Joe Biden and the Catholic Challenge
By
David Gibson
By choosing the longtime senator insider and foreign policy expert, Joe Biden, as his running mate, Barack Obama got a well-respected congressional insider to help his prospective legislative agenda as well as sharp-spoken (too much, at times–but good for a veep) campaigner and an opponent of Bush’s foreign policy whose own son is set to be deployed…
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