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Mike Huckabee Holds Strong Lead Among Conservative Christian Bloc
By David Gibson - Politics DailyMike Huckabee has been making waves lately for his comments about Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy and Barack Obama's "anti-colonial" boyhood, but a new poll shows the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential hopeful still seems to be the hands-down favorite of conservative Christian voters who will be critical to securing the nomination. The survey from the Barna Group, a leading Christian research organization, also indicates that Huckabee could go toe-to-toe with all Republican challengers, and he would be the toughest foe for President Obama in November ...
Mike Huckabee Keeps Up Criticism of Islam in America
By David Gibson - Politics DailyJust days after stirring Muslim ire for ripping Islam as "the antithesis of the gospel of Christ," Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee again sharply critiqued the religion, telling an evangelical magazine that Muslims are receiving special treatment "at the expense of others" -- apparently referring to Christians -- and that is "un-American." In the interview with Christianity Today, Huckabee was asked about New York Rep. Peter King's controversial plan to hold hearings in March on the alleged radicalization of American Muslims, and Huckabee responded by talking about concerns ...
Glenn Beck Meets Billy Graham, Later Blasts the Left as 'Evil'
By David Gibson - Politics DailyControversial Fox News host Glenn Beck met quietly with the aging and revered evangelist Billy Graham on Saturday and said that after their three-hour encounter he is convinced that the political left -- including "the average Democrat" -- is "standing now with profound and clear evil." "In sitting there and speaking to Reverend Graham, I thought, here is a man who has been all around the world," Beck explained on his website on Tuesday, apparently a transcript of comments made on his radio show on Monday. "Here's a man who has seen it all. Here's a man who's done profound good. One of the ...
Presidential Primaries: Why We Need a Better Way to Pick Nominees
By Robert Schmuhl - Politics DailyWhat's the matter with Iowa? That's a question worth asking as news from the Hawkeye state circulates about next year's presidential caucuses, scheduled for Feb. 6, 2012. According to a recent Associated Press dispatch from Des Moines, Mitt Romney and other potential Republican White House aspirants are considering strategies of avoiding or not emphasizing Iowa in their nomination bids. With conservatives, particularly evangelical Christians, so involved in Iowa GOP politics, Romney and someone like Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana (who is on record for wanting "to call a truce on the ...
Ted Haggard Acknowledges He's Bisexual: A Brief History of His Sexual Orientation Scandal [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIs that his final answer? In a new GQ profile, the Rev. Ted Haggard opens up about his sexual orientation, which has been the source of many rumors and revelations over the years. "Here's where I really am on this issue," he says. "I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual." Haggard went on to explain that at his age (54), "I can have enforced boundaries in my life. ... I can be who I am and exclusively have sex with my wife and be perfectly satisfied." In 2006, Haggard resigned his post as president of the National Association of ...
Sarah Palin Heads to Haiti With Franklin Graham
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(Dec. 10) -- Sarah Palin will travel to strife-torn Haiti this weekend with Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, on a mission that could burnish her standing on foreign policy and with evangelicals if she pursues a 2012 presidential run. ...
Bible Protects Against Global Warming? Energy Chair Hopeful Tells Us So
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe House's new Republican leadership will begin doling out coveted committee chairs after the Thanksgiving break, and it's unclear whether Rep. John Shimkus is helping his chances to lead the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee by arguing that climate change is a myth because God told Noah he would never again destroy the Earth by flood. Shimkus, an Illinois Republican, who won his seventh term this month, earned a dubious bit of YouTube notoriety in March 2009 when he told a subcommittee hearing on energy and the environment that we needn't worry about global warming because of Genesis ...
How Evangelicals Will Likely Rebound After Christine O'Donnell's Faith-Based Campaign
By Paul O'Donnell - Politics DailyIf 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 ...
Campaign 2012: Watch Out for Mitt Romney!
By David Corn - Politics DailyIt's two weeks before the 2010 elections. Which means now's a fine time to start obsessing about the 2012 campaign. The next presidential race will unofficially begin on No. 3 -- the day after the midterm elections. It's possible we may not know the outcome of all the critical House and Senate races by then, and these races could determine which party controls the House and Senate. But once most of the 2010 votes are counted, the politerati will quickly pivot toward the next big thing. So let me get an early jump and tell you this: watch out for Mitt Romney. I'm not predicting he'll be the ...
Whose God Rescued the Chilean Miners?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAs the dramatic rescue of the 33 Chilean miners trapped more than 2,000 feet underground wound to a happy, indeed miraculous ending, one of the great and emblematic lines of the saga was delivered by a miner who sent a letter up on Tuesday, the day before he made the journey to the surface. "There are actually 34 of us," 19-year-old Jimmy Sanchez wrote, "because God has never left us down here." Amen, a watching world would agree. But now the question has become, exactly whose God was down there with Jimmy Sanchez and the others? Different churches are laying claim to inspiring divine ...
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