How Evangelicals Will Likely Rebound After Christine O'Donnell's Faith-Based Campaign
If Republican Senate candidate and tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell loses next week in Delaware as polls now predict, she will have been undone by faith -- not her own Roman Catholicism, but by evangelical Christianity. It was the pro-life, former anti-masturbation crusader's appeal to the devout in the primary that have made her so vulnerable to comments she made on Bill Maher's long-cancelled show about dating a warlock -- anyone who had not run as a believer might have simply laughed off her taste in men. Though hanging out with pagans as a young woman amounted to nothing, her ...
The Manhattan Declaration: Will Young Evangelicals Be Swayed?
Last month, an impressive collection of Roman Catholic bishops, evangelical Christian leaders and conservative academics gathered at the National Press Club in Washington to release a joint statement they called the Manhattan Declaration: A Call to Conscience, delineating what one signer calls "a line in the sand" on abortion, gay marriage, and religious freedom. Then the document promptly fell into a black hole. The New York Times ran a single, pro-forma article; one evangelical commentator I spoke with said he had to acquaint rank-and-file Christians with the declaration before he could get ...
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