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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, ...
Huck: Change Constitution to Heed God's Will
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAs governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee would not pass a bill authorizing immediate disaster relief to tornado victims because it termed twisters as "an Act of God." Well, now there seems to be another legal document that Huck has a few problems with vis-a-vis whether or not it reads approvingly to the big man upstairs. It's the U.S. Constitution, which, to Huckabee's eyes, could use a few God-approved flourishes. "[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and ...
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