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  Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 8:04 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 0 Comments Anyone wanting to answer the question of “how we began” in Iraq has to confront the monumental fact that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, invaded Iraq with no particular and specific idea of what it was going to do there, and [Read More]

• Obama Should Vote No on Obama

  Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:46 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 0 Comments Senator Barack Obama voted not to confirm John Roberts as Chief Justice of the United States because of Roberts’ values. If Obama applied the same standard to himself, he would vote no a second time. In rejecting the justice, the senator explained that [Read More]

• No Religion of Secularism

  Posted Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:50 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 0 Comments Mitt Romney got it wrong in his well-publicized speech about “ Faith in America .” A neutral, non-religious, constitutional government—which Romney incorrectly derided as a secular religion—protects Mormons against discrimination much better than would [Read More]

• Running on Vague Faith

  Posted Monday, July 23, 2007 2:42 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 0 Comments Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has borrowed a page from President George W. Bush’s playbook. She is running her presidential campaign on vague faith. The Senator has frequently decried the Democrats’ abandonment of the faith playing field to the Republicans. [Read More]

• The Bad Religious Left

  Posted Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:30 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 0 Comments Democrats are talking about their faith, most recently in interviews on CNN . Faith helped Hillary Clinton to endure her husband’s infidelity. Because John Edwards sins multiple times every day, he is unable to identify the biggest sin he ever committed. [Read More]

• A Faith Without Politics?

  Posted Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:21 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 0 Comments Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards believes that politicians should speak openly about their faith but not politicize it. According to the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee and 2008 presidential candidate, faith should not be used as part [Read More]

• Faith-Based Politics?

  Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:58 AM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 1 Comments Former Arkansas Governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee is a Republican presidential candidate who takes his faith seriously. On Meet the Press, the governor told host Tim Russert: I’m appalled, Tim, when someone says, “Tell me about your faith,” [Read More]

• A President of Political Faith?

  Posted Saturday, February 24, 2007 8:26 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 0 Comments According to presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, “the American people want to see a person of faith lead the nation, and I don’t think the American people care very deeply about which brand of faith that is.” I think [Read More]

• A New Politics of Religion?

  Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:03 PM by Leslie Griffin Comment Here: 3 Comments Illinois Senator Barack Obama is attracting attention because of his promises to practice a new, less partisan, type of politics, based on common values that unite, not divide. He describes that program in his new campaign book, The Audacity of Hope . [Read More]