Election Day is near, and religious organizations are busy distributing voter guides to inform the faithful about issues and candidates. They appear at a time when the IRS is closely monitoring politicking by churches and when high-profile public policy issues are entwined with religious values. This year, religious groups with more liberal political orientations are [...]
The Republican Party had taken ownership of religious ground and the Democratic Party had awakened to the need to claim votes from people of faith. Then came a wave of financial scandals that affected politicians of both parties, leaving neither side in a position to accuse the other of “a culture of corruption.”
On Sept. 15, [...]
In 2002, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Cleveland school voucher program in a decision that President Bush called a "landmark ruling" for parents, many voucher supporters thought a clear victory had been won. The road, however, has been much rockier, with negative court rulings, dueling research reports and continued debate about church-state constitutionality [...]
In 2004 Catholic voters did what not long before would have been considered political heresy: They supported a Republican for president over a Democrat, and an evangelical Protestant, no less, over the first Catholic presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy in 1960. Moreover, Catholics’ preference for George W. Bush over John Kerry – 52 percent [...]
Several high-profile evangelical Christians are criticizing the evangelical movement for its close alliance with the Republican Party. These voices – scholars, clergy and laypeople – say that evangelicals have sacrificed the message of Jesus at the altar of political influence, throwing over their biblically mandated mission to the poor and disadvantaged in favor of trying [...]
LAST UPDATED FEB. 6, 2008: On Feb. 7, two days after a disappointing showing on Super Tuesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ended his presidential campaign. Observers say his Mormon faith was one factor in his inability to attract more support among voters. An August 2007 poll found that one in four Americans say they [...]
UPDATED May 1, 2009: Best-selling books, high-profile conferences and a blog boom all signal a political renaissance of people who call themselves “spiritual progressives” or “religious liberals.” They include members of many faiths, and a prime focus is countering the politics of religious conservatives and critiquing their use of religious language. Issues such as poverty, [...]
On “Justice Sunday” – April 24, 2005 – thousands of Christians around the country watched a live broadcast from a Kentucky mega church in which conservative Christian leaders depicted Democrats as “hostile” to religious Americans for opposing some of President George Bush’s judicial nominees. Is that portrait accurate?
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