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Senator McCain: Take Down this Ad
By
Mara Vanderslice
Thank you everyone for your emails and response to my earlier blog post on McCain’s “The One” ad. The McCain campaign has said that they meant the ad to be humorous. But make no mistake about it: this ad is directed at Christians with a very dark message. Please join us in asking John McCain…
Dog Whistles, Hypocrisy, and “Traditional” Christianity
By
Ed Kilgore
I’m less certain than Mara Vanderslice that John McCain’s recent pattern of decrying Barack Obama’s “messianism” is a deliberate effort to label him as the Antichrist. It’s not that I consider Team McCain incapable of “dog whistle” appeals to the Christian Right; their candidate has certainly mastered those dark arts in a variety of abstract references to his hatred of “judicial…
Evangelicals and Abortion
By
Ed Kilgore
There’s been a lot of talk in the chattering classes lately about the political impact of the two major political parties’ exact positioning on abortion policy among Catholic voters. Michael Sean Winters argues in the New Republic, for example, that Kathleen Sebelius’ stormy relationship with her bishop on abortion issues makes her a less likely veep…
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