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Religious Right Meets Religious Left: Two Evangelical Christians Urge Civility
By David Gibson - Politics DailyTwo icons of the Christian right and Christian left, Chuck Colson and Jim Wallis, have penned a joint statement that calls on the nation to "re-examine the tone and character of our public debate" in the wake of the Tucson shootings and says that believers "should lead by example." Colson, a political conservative who became active in prison ministry after doing jail time for crimes related to his work in the Nixon White House, and Wallis, who has emerged as a leader of the so-called Religious left, write that "no act of incivility can be blamed for the profoundly evil shooting" of Rep. ...
Did the Democrats' Loss of Faith Lose Them the House?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyOf the many reasons cited for the Election Day "shellacking" administered by Republicans to President Obama and the Democrats, perhaps none is as puzzling to political analysts -- or as maddening to religious progressives who put so much faith and work into Obama's success -- than the Democrats' failure to mobilize the Religious Left and reach out to conservative believers. To be sure, little was going the Democrats' way this fall, and it would have taken something on the order of an Old Testament miracle -- say, the sun standing still until employment numbers improved -- to forestall ...
Religious Left to Obama: Man Up and Push Reform
By David Gibson - Politics DailyYesterday it was the Catholic hierarchy telling Congress to shape up and pass a health care reform bill. Today it is a high-profile cohort from the religious left telling President Obama, in effect, to man up and show some leadership. "Your active and public leadership is desperately needed at this moment of doubt on Capitol Hill," the nearly two dozen religious leaders, including eight from Obama's own faith-based task force, write in a letter sent to the White House on Wednesday. "The political twists and turns of the last week do not change the facts on the ground: hundreds of thousands of ...
Religious Right Opposes Health Care (But Where's the Religion?)
By David Gibson - Politics DailyHarry and Louise aren't dead -- yet. The fictional couple whose famous TV spots in the 1990s drove a stake of fear through the heart of the Clinton effort at health care reform briefly reprised their act last summer with a less oppositional message. Now that they're older, maybe the couple is actually worried about their health care -- unless, of course, they have government-run Medicare. The recent effort was pretty moribund compared to the 1993 campaign, and no TV ads during this year's health care go-round have approached the impact of the old "Harry and Louise" shtick -- until now. ...
Obama the Theocrat? Critics Look for a Label That Will Stick
By David Gibson - Politics DailyWe recently noted the irony that Barack Obama's secular faithful were growing uneasy with his extensive use of religious language (and faith-based policies). Now, in an odder twist, it appears some on the right are also angry at Obama's religious rhetoric, to the point that Joseph Lawler at The American Spectator titled a recent post, "Obama the Theocrat." If that charge has a familiar ring, it's because it is the same one many on the left tossed at George W. Bush and his ilk for years, most notably in books like Kevin Phillips' "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, ...
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