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October 2008
- Top Evangelical Weighs Candidates
  
  Boston Globe | Oct 15, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The presidential race is a contest between different sets of philosophy, writes Richard Cizik, president of the National Association of Evangelicals. In an NAE newsletter, Cizik says Barack Obama is “a thinker who sees the grays in ethical choices” while McCain opts for the “clarity of moral opposites”—and that Obama “has given faith more thought and reflection” than McCain. More »
- Pentecostal Questions Haunt Palin
  
  Time | Oct 11, 08 6:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain has so far avoided attacking Barack Obama's controversial pastor in what may be a strategy to keep Sarah Palin's preachers out of the spotlight, Time reports. Palin officially left her Pentecostal church before campaigning for lieutenant governor but has made many return visits—including one in 2005 when a bishop prayed to protect her from witchcraft. More »
September 2008
- Firefighters Charge Sex Harassment in Gay Parade
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 15, 08 4:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Four San Diego firefighters ordered by officials to drive their truck in the city's gay pride parade last year are suing for $3 million in damages for sexual harassment, reports the Los Angeles Times . The four, who were given their orders by the city’s lesbian fire chief, say the suit is a protest against the lewd comments lobbed at them during the parade, and is “not an anti-gay thing.” The trial starts today. More »
- How Did Dems Inherit Ozzie & Harriet Mantle?
  
  Slate | Sep 5, 08 5:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The enthusiastic evangelical reaction to a working mother with an unwed pregnant teenage daughter on the GOP ticket highlights the dramatically changing face of conservative Christian America and could spell trouble for the Dems, Hanna Rosin writes in Slate . Evangelicals now actually score worse than the rest of America on the traditional values that preachers and conservative pundits laud, with families often failing to resemble the "oh-so-perfect" Obamas. More »
- Moderates Feeling Snubbed at Grand Old Party
  
  Chicago Tribune | Sep 4, 08 3:46 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Where conservatives once felt uneasy with John McCain, his drift rightward now has moderates wondering if there’s a place for them in the Republican Party, the Chicago Tribune reports. “We are discouraged by the platform,” says one pro-choice Republican, noting that while she was glad to have a woman on the ticket, Sarah Palin’s far-right views worried her. More »
- Evangelicals Applaud Palins
  
  CNN | Sep 2, 08 3:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Evangelical groups are standing squarely behind Sarah Palin and her family following the news that her teenage daughter Bristol is pregnant, CNN reports. Pro-life leaders hailed Bristol's decision to keep her baby with her family's support and dismissed any suggestion that her pregnancy is at odds with Palin's promotion of teen abstinence. More »
- Palin's Daughter, 17, Is Pregnant, Will Keep Child
  
  Reuters | Sep 1, 08 11:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The 17-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin is 5 months pregnant, the Republican vice presidential candidate said today, and plans to keep the child and marry the father. John McCain knew about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy before choosing the Alaska governor as his running mate, Reuters reports. The statement comes after speculation on liberal blogs that Palin, 44, faked her most recent pregnancy to cover for her daughter. More »
August 2008
- Bush Rule Shields Docs Who Deny Women Abortions, Pill
  
  Washington Post | Aug 22, 08 5:32 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health care workers would have the right to refuse to provide abortion services, contraception or even information on preventing or ending pregnancies under a controversial new regulation issued by the Bush administration. The proposed rule would force hospitals, clinics and other health care providers to accommodate employees' moral objections or lose federal funding, reports the Washington Post . More »
- Young Evangelical Vote Is Up For Grabs
  
  Washington Post | Aug 15, 08 12:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - When Barack Obama and John McCain meet with pastor Rick Warren tomorrow, they’ll be fighting for the future of an increasingly split evangelical voting block, the Washington Post reports. Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, is at the forefront of a movement rippling through young evangelicals and prompting them to focus on issues outside the normal Republican purview, like AIDS, poverty, and climate change. More »
- Megapastor Aims to Save Not Only Souls, but Lives
  
  Time | Aug 9, 08 5:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Megapastor Rick Warren, he of The Purpose Driven Life , has moved from organizing churches to save souls to organizing churches to save lives, Time reports. At the forefront of the new wave of Evangelicals, the hyper-energetic Warren launched a worldwide initiative, called PEACE, to use churches to fight poverty and preventable disease. He plans to mobilize a billion Christians. More »
July 2008
- Evangelicals to McCain: No Romney
  
  Washington Times | Jul 29, 08 1:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Evangelicals do not want John McCain to pick Mitt Romney as his running mate, and they’re not being quiet about it, the Washington Times reports, with Mike Huckabee fans particularly in oppostion. “McCain and Romney would be like oil and water,” one says, citing the former Massachusetts governor’s flip-flops on issues like abortion. Many also don’t trust the Mormon Romney to oppose same-sex marriage. More »
- Evangelical Dobson Softens on McCain
  
  Associated Press | Jul 21, 08 2:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - James Dobson still won’t formally endorse John McCain, but the evangelical leader voiced support for the Republican candidate in a radio broadcast today, the AP reports. “Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation,” Dobson said, forcing him “to reevaluate the candidacy of our only other choice.” More »
- Dubai Cracks Down on Nude Tourists
  
  Associated Press | Jul 15, 08 6:38 AM CDT
  
  (AP) - It hasn't been all fun and games for Western vacationers on Dubai beaches, thanks to decency police who have detained 79 people in recent days for topless sunbathing and nudity, AP reports. The Muslim city-state is attracting hordes of foreign sun seekers, who are being scrutinized by cops on the ground and in beach watchtowers. Detained vacationers were "disturbing families," said a Dubai spokesman. More »
- Evangelicals' Sex Talk Has Hidden Agenda
  
  Salon | Jul 8, 08 7:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sex is no longer taboo for the religious right—but the evangelical sexual revolution is no liberation movement, historian Dagmar Herzog argues in her new book, Sex in Crisis . Instead, Herzog asserts that “evangelicals, over the last couple of decades, have beaten liberals at their own game by adapting liberal rhetoric for conservative ends," writes Louis Bayard in Salon . He thinks, however, that Herzog has overstated the case a bit. More »
- Bush Edits Jefferson on Religion
  
  Science Blogs | Jul 5, 08 11:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Thomas Jefferson may be a founding father, but that doesn’t stop President Bush’s speechwriters from editing his words as they see fit, Ed Brayton writes on his blog, Dispatches from the Culture Wars. In a July 4 speech, Bush recited a famous Jefferson quote on “the blessings and security of self-government,” but took a crucial “anti-religious statement” out of the sentence. More »
June 2008
- Conservatives Break With Anglican Church
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jun 30, 08 10:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Traditionalist Anglican bishops, most of them representing the developing world, have broken away from the Anglican communion and formed their own global church. Galvanized by the consecration of Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire, the disgruntled clergymen have formed the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, which rejects the supremacy of the Church of England and adheres to hardline doctrine. More »
- Church Asks Mormons to Oppose Calif. Gay Unions
  
  Deseret News (Salt Lake) | Jun 24, 08 1:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Mormon church is pushing its members to vote for a California ballot measure that would ban gay marriage, the Deseret News reports. As "marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God," leaders exhort Mormons to “do all you can” to ensure November passage of an amendment to the state’s constitution More »
- Anti-Obama Evangelical Writes Pro-Obama Book
  
  Politico | Jun 16, 08 4:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Stephen Mansfield expects to cast his ballot against Barack Obama in November. But that hasn’t stopped him from writing an admiring book about the candidate's religious profile— The Faith of Barack Obama —which argues that the candidate may well steal young evangelical voters away from John McCain. McCain is “clumsy when it comes to religion,” Mansfield tells Politico, in stark contrast to Obama’s “fluency” in the language of Christianity. More »
- Quietly, McCain Makes Overtures to Evangelicals
  
  New York Times | Jun 9, 08 7:32 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - John McCain faces a challenge uncommon among GOP presidential candidates: rallying evangelical Christians to vote for him. As the New York Times reports, the McCain campaign is holding meetings with evangelical leaders and blasting them with emails, but many are still taking a wait-and-see approach. And McCain's lack of rapport with religious conservatives was exacerbated by his recent rejection of endorsements of the Rev. John Hagee and the Rev. Rod Parsley. More »
- Anti-Evolution Groups Change Texas Tactics
  
  New York Times | Jun 4, 08 2:02 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Evolution opponents are adapting. Now that “intelligent design” and “creation science” have failed in court, the new catch phrase, the New York Times reports, is “strengths and weaknesses.” It might seem innocuous, but critics say it’s yet another tactic to undermine the teaching of evolution in schools. Evolution opponents are insisting that curriculum discuss the flaws in Darwin’s theory. More »