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This campaign season has brought a new species: ads that advocate for fewer abortions but are implicitly pro-choice. Matthew25 did the first wave of such ads.Now, Faith in Public Life has begun running an unusual radio ad in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Missouri. Pro-life activists will bristle at…

I see Al Franken is getting criticized for some his religiously offensive comedy. Apparently, he compared communion wafers to chips and guacamole and said God has his head “up his ass.” Yep. For a Senator, pretty darn offensive. The only question is whether he’s going to get dispensation for things he said as a comedian.…

When Barack Obama earlier in the campaign talked about McCain’s penchant for gambling, he turned it into a metaphor: McCain would gamble with the economy. But at the time I suspected there was something more to the Obama tactic than a message about special interest money. Surely they must have known that McCain’s connection’s to…

We’ve certainly had a healthy dose of religion in the 2008 presidential campaign. We’ve been treated to: Sarah Palin’s claiming that God had endorsed a natural gas pipeline; Barack Obama explaining Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright; Joe Biden getting into a theological argument with the Catholic Bishops; and John McCain praising the “most God-loving” parts…

Almost every religious group in American complains they suffer persecution. And they do. But two things jump out of the FBI’s recently released report on hate crimes. First, only 18% were “motivated by religious bias” compared to 50.% by race. Second, there were twice as many hate crimes based on sexual orientation (16.6%) as there…

Politico reports that Victoria Jackson, formerly of Saturday Night Live, appears in a new ad featuring Republicans of Hollywood. On her website, she explains some of the reasons she opposes Obama: Your statements are New Age, relativist, & humanist. Basically, they are textbook comments that go back to the first sin in the Garden of…

Andrew Sullivan has been running a contest encouraging readers to submit home-made campaign commercials. They’re awfully good. Here’s where you can vote for your favorite. Here’s the one I voted for:All of these are anti-McCain/pro-Obama ads. I haven’t found a pro-McCain ad contest. Here’s one cute one. Have you seen others?

Cardinal Timothy Egan of New York is the latest Bishop to weigh in with an impassioned election eve appeal to Catholics about abortion. “Look at the photograph again,” he wrote about the image of a 20-week-old fetus. “Look and decide with honesty and decency what the Lord expects of you and me as the horror…

Andrew Sullivan has posted a list of ten reasons conservatives should support Obama. Included: “5. Faith. Obama’s fusion of Christianity and reason, his non-fundamentalist faith, is a critical bridge between the new atheism and the new Christianism. 4. A truce in the culture war. Obama takes us past the debilitating boomer warfare that has raged…

So says a new survey from Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Republican leader Larry Forgy explained, “I know he’s not a practicing Muslim but, to me, his preacher, Jeremiah Wright, sounds more like Malcolm X than Billy Graham.”
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