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Note to GOP Voters: “Political Freedom” Comes With Social Responsibility

By Marcia Pally

…w markets flourishing only with virtue, would be surprised. Interestingly, Ohio governor John Kasich has some ideas about it. One is that our financial sector runs on too much greed. During last week’s debate Kasich cited the philosopher and theologian Michael Novak, saying that Wall Street needs ethics to continue to operate. He would require increased capital reserves (as would Jeb Bush) and decreases in high-risk investment instruments. To run…

RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…ownplay Obama’s extreme pro-abortion views.” The ad buy, which will run in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Michigan, and in the Washington D.C. market, “will target Christian radio stations that earlier this year carried the Matthew 25 campaign.” Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council and the FRC Action PAC, said that “Last year, when he addressed Planned Parenthood he declared that his ‘first act’ as president would be to si…

A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture

By Peter Laarman

…sued the work of removing or exterminating Native Americans in the fertile Ohio Country (as it was then called); the expansionary anti-indigenous energy of the slave-owning Southern whites ultimately became the most violent of all, but due credit for creating the concept of heavily-armed freewheeling “rangers” belongs to the pious Puritans who first used unlimited slaughter and scorched-earth guerrilla tactics in the so-called “King Philip’s War”…

Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.

By Daniel Schultz

…rities, not even close—and the national result is mirrored in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It’s the same thing election after election: if you ask voters what it’s all about, they’ll tell you the economy, foreign policy, and terrorism, not necessarily in that order. Oh, and by the way? Clinton didn’t apologize for her position on abortion because she didn’t have to. She, like many women in the Democratic Party, doesn’t believe…

Liberty University Investigates Seminary President Over Allegations He Fabricated Muslim Past

By Hussein Rashid

…ularly, evangelical Christianity) over Islam. It seems that Caner moved to Ohio at the age of 8, well before he could have been “indoctrinated” to commit violent acts of jihad, as he claims. He did convert to Christianity as a teenager, as did most of his family. So far, this last point seems to be the only independently verifiable part of his account. Liberty already had to correct its website with Caner’s “mis-stated” academic credentials. He ap…

New Report Mapping Christian Nationalism by State Suggests Election Need Not be Played Out on Christian Nationalist Terms

By Daniel Schultz

…olina, and Wisconsin? They’re all right around the national average. Those numbers are not destiny, however. Conservative Utah has low levels of agreement with Christian nationalism, at just 28%. Meanwhile its solidly Democratic neighbor New Mexico is a bit higher, at 32%. Still, the results are significant for understanding the political scene today. Christian nationalism should not be ignored or downplayed, but at the same time the segment of th…

Faith in Public Life Responds: Common Ground Gets Results

By Katie Paris and the Faith in Public Life Team

…an radio ads in November calling for common-ground solutions to reduce the number of abortions, including preventing unintended pregnancies, pro-choice RH Reality Check observed, A notable shift has occurred in the political discourse about abortion this year. After decades of bitter partisanship and nasty wedge politics surrounding the highly controversial issue of abortion will this election cycle be remembered as a turning point for the politic…

Evangelicals to Join Dems on Immigration Reform, But…

By Peter Laarman

…es this little bombshell, from the mouth of evangelical bigwig (and former Ohio election-rigger-in-chief) Ken Blackwell: But Mr. Blackwell said the whole effort could implode if the final legislation extended family reunification provisions to same-sex couples where one spouse did not have legal status. For evangelicals, he said, ‘That would be a deal-breaker.’ Okay, and we’ve heard pretty much the same thing from the country’s Roman Catholic bish…

Christian Schools Invoke Religious Liberty to Reopen Despite Warnings of Health Experts

By Chrissy Stroop

…table exception of Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, while Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, went so far as to label church gatherings “essential” operations. For help with my analysis in that piece, I consulted Nick Fish, President of American Atheists, who observed: Even religious liberty advocates with expansive views of religious exemptions recognize that our government can limit gatherings at churches to protect lives….

Wolves Repelled by Christian Rock, Bibles for Porn, Fox Rejects Super Bowl Ad

By Michael J. Altman

…is trying to get more Muslims writing for TV and movies in Hollywood. The number of US Muslims accused of terrorism dropped by half in 2010, a new study reports. A pair of doves just didn’t want to leave the Pope’s window this week. People who believe the end of the world will come on 12/21/12 are flocking to a French mountain. A Norwegian boy fended off a pack of wolves by terrorizing them with a song by the slightly Christian band Creed. German…