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I’ll give a more thoroughly reported response later but here are my first quick takes on the Democratic Party’s new draft platform on abortion and its political implications 1) The Lack of Moral Language — The key linguistic debate has been whether to “reduce the number of abortions” or “reduce the need for abortions.” Pro-life…

The proposed 2008 abortion plank: The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to affordable family planning services…

If one isn’t thinking about the American political campaign, it might seem oddly out-of-the-blue that in the course of criticizing Russia’s action in Georgia, John McCain noted that Georgia is “one of the world’s first nations to adopt Christianity as an official religion.” Of course our Founding Fathers believed that having official state religion was…

Rielle Hunter, with whom John Edwards had an affair, apparently was deeply into mystical spirituality. According to an account in Newsweek, she said she was drawn to Edwards because he was “an old soul” with “special energy,” according to a Newsweek account. What’s more, according to another eyewitness account by freelance writer Sarah Miller, she…

Putting aside for a moment the question of whether the McCain campaign intended to imply that Obama is the anti-Christ. They clearly did intend to imply that he has a Messianic complex and is breathtakingly arrogant. Rush Limbaugh calls him Lord Obama. Jonah Goldberg asks if Obama is the Messiah. This is a common theme…

A new CBS poll has McCain winning among white evangelicals 58% to 24%. Mark Silk notes that if undecideds broke 50-50, Obama would end up with almost one third of the white evangelical vote, a hefty jump over Kerry’s 22%. True enough. But there’s another way of looking at it: despite the months worth of…

Ed Kilgore’s interesting post over at Progressive Revival about evangelicals being more pro-life than Catholics has stirred some interesting debate. Kilgore is puzzled but offers a few theories: 1) Evangelicals are “are radically alienated from contemporary American culture, and view legalized abortion (along with premarital sex, open gay/lesbian lifestyles, and TV/Hollywood “trash culture”) as a…

In an interview with David Brody at Christian Broadcasting Networking, Lieberman says, McCain is a serious Christian believer. This runs slightly contrary to what former Republican Senator Rick Santorum said but who am I to say which McCain supporter has a more accurate view (and whether it even matters). Lieberman went on to criticize Obama’s…

Once again the folks at wnd.com win the award for most exaggerated headline. This is a story about comments posted on the Obama website. Now, I have to say, I’m surprised it took this long for something like this to happen. It’s in the nature of allowing posts on blogs that you’ll have hateful material.…

An excellent and surprising take from CNN. [Hat tip: GetReligion]
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