By Robert Tice Lalka
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| Jul. 02, 08 06:06 |
| Here is some perspective on the new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jun. 30, 08 18:41 |
Patriotism rears its ugly head as the
righteous umbrella of oil and Zionism.
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By Robert Tice Lalka
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| Jun. 24, 08 23:12 |
This addresses the need to renew Senator Obama's call for A Deeper, Fuller Conversation About Religion In This Country.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jun. 04, 08 11:40 |
| "I would not rule becoming his (Obama's) running mate if it will help the Party win in November."
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By Stan A Moody
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| May. 19, 08 09:14 |
The righteousness of the free enterprise system masking occasional greed, our President may well enjoy the family fruits of appeasement.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Apr. 29, 08 11:53 |
| Hillary's strategy is to appeal to establishment Democrats by urging Superdelegates either to vote for her on the first ballot or to abstain, thereby throwing open the Convention.
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By Lisa Sharon Harper
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| Apr. 18, 08 14:54 |
As national spotlights focus on a contentious presidential primary, there is a grassroots groundswell springing from Pennsylvania's heartland.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Apr. 14, 08 19:36 |
In light of that, let's bump Obama up to a B on the Iococca index...
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By Stan A Moody
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| Apr. 08, 08 09:24 |
| In Hagee's telling, Israel has no choice but to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, with or without America's help.
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Mar. 30, 08 21:03 |
| Instead of being praised for her
daily faith practices, Sen. Clinton has come under attack because the
Christian fellowship she keeps is bi-partisan.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Mar. 24, 08 09:28 |
In a word, they don't like Jeremiah Wright because he forces us to face our sin.
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By Rachel Noel Johnson
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| Mar. 19, 08 20:33 |
| If we insist that our
politicians attend flawless congregations, then we must be prepared to no longer
see their faces in worship.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Mar. 05, 08 16:34 |
| We have become a nation addicted to reality TV, and it's now spilling dangerously over into real life.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Feb. 10, 08 18:38 |
In the spirit of "It's My Turn" Bob Dole, Republicans once again choose fear over progress; tradition over hope; stay-the-course over humility.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jan. 30, 08 05:32 |
Nostalgia runs wild this week in the seeming vapidity of our
current Presidential wannabees. But
then, who would have given Harry Truman a chance for greatness?
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By Adam Parish
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| Jan. 26, 08 02:20 |
Interestingly, my pastor recently asked the question in our small
group, “Today, who’s defending the faith?” The first name that came to
my mind was Jim Wallis, but I knew my pastor and no one in the room
other than my wife were familiar with Jim so I blurted out Billy Graham.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jan. 19, 08 19:03 |
| The mere exercise of
superimposing Burt Lancaster will instantly translate Elmer Gantry into South Carolina or Mike
Huckabee into Gritzmaker Springs, KA....
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jan. 05, 08 13:58 |
Not bad, I will have to say! Do we dare dream of morning in America? On the other hand, I'll have another helping of that crow, if you don't mind.
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By Jesse Lava
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| Jan. 04, 08 01:48 |
| By the time Iowa rolled around, Obama had established an image as a bridge-builder who can transcend traditional divides between liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans. And faith had something to do with that.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 31, 07 14:41 |
| Somehow there is an awfully big disconnect between an exploding
bus in India and baby powder at a Saratoga
County office building.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 19, 07 14:23 |
Huckabee's answer to the "two state solution" is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine:
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 10, 07 11:32 |
Is there any thinking person left out there who still wonders about that wild look in Huckabee's eyes?
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By Eric Sapp
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| Dec. 07, 07 10:36 |
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Romney began his discussion of how religious views will play in his candidacy by citing Kennedy's famous speech. I can't help but paraphrase Bentsen here, "Governor, you are no Jack Kennedy." And I don't think this speech will accomplish the same thing either.
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By Linda Sue Seger
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| Dec. 04, 07 00:12 |
| Conservative and Evangelical Christian Republicans have remained some of the strongest supporters of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why?
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By Stan A Moody
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| Dec. 03, 07 07:44 |
| Our troops and our citizens deserve better than this. The backdrop for heroism is not imperialism
with its contrived glories. The backdrop
for heroism is service where war has become inevitable.
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By Eric Sapp
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| Nov. 24, 07 14:15 |
| Tony Perkins just sent out quite a fundraising letter asking supporters to give deeply so that the Family Research Council could fight initiatives by the “left” that “are being sold using Scripture” and that are succeeding at “peeling off votes that would normally go to true conservative, pro-family candidates.”
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By Stan A Moody
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| Nov. 16, 07 11:15 |
The Christian worldview being one of humility and service, no Bible-thumping candidate could possibly be on Jesus' side. Heck, even the Church, the "Bride of Christ," is not on Jesus' side these days.
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By Jesse Lava
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| Nov. 07, 07 13:33 |
| Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani shouldn't be a shock; it's business as usual for the religious right.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Nov. 05, 07 20:01 |
| Ultimately, walls imprison only their builders by restricting the spirit and vision of a people to the territory they possess.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Oct. 21, 07 16:34 |
To curse Palestinian Christians by rendering them faceless and through policies intended to push them out of their homes and across the Jordan River is to curse Abraham.
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By Robert Tice Lalka
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| Oct. 20, 07 08:04 |
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Greetings everyone, I'm Rob Lalka, and I'm here at the Values Voter
Summit -- an annual conference for the religious right, which has long
dominated our nation's values debate. We've heard that this bloc is
starting to lose their control over the direction of the Republican
Party recently, and particularly with the leading Republican candidate
being Rudy Guiliani, that very well may be the case.
I'll be here all weekend blogging the conference for Faithful
Democrats, updating you regularly on the happenings here. This could
well be a major turning point for the religious right, or maybe not. A
few interesting anecdotes are sure to emerge regardless, and I'm here
to chronicle some of the more amusing and intriguing details of what
happens. Because while the papers might miss the more scintillating
stories, you won't want to, so check in regularly for my updates by
clicking the link below.
For Friday's coverage, click here; for today's, see below.
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By Robert Tice Lalka
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| Oct. 19, 07 10:31 |
Greetings everyone, I'm Rob Lalka, and I'm here at the Values Voter Summit -- an annual conference for the religious right, which has long dominated our nation's values debate. We've heard that the bloc is starting to lose their control over the direction of the Republican Party recently, and particularly with the leading Republican candidate being Rudy Guiliani, that very well may be the case.
I'll be here all weekend blogging the conference for Faithful Democrats, updating you regularly on the happenings here. This could well be a major turning point for the religious right, or maybe not. A few interesting anecdotes are sure to emerge regardless, and I'm here to chronicle some of the more amusing and intriguing details of what happens. Because while the papers might miss the more scintillating stories, you won't want to, so check in regularly for my updates by clicking the link below.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Oct. 15, 07 18:46 |
The "good" are those who believe in their unchallenged ideologies and little else; the "evil" are the rest of us to varying degrees.
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By Jesse Lava
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| Oct. 09, 07 12:05 |
Churches that use violent video games to attract kids are undermining the Christian message they are purporting to spread.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Oct. 07, 07 14:03 |
One blogger had a bit of fun. "I've had a vision of a 900-foot Jewish guy who wants me to build a center to find a cure for clergy corruption," he said.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 30, 07 18:33 |
| Outlawing adultery? In the world in which Gen. Pace was raised, not only the act but the thought would be sufficient grounds for dismissal, thoroughly gutting our military.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 24, 07 07:33 |
| Blackwater is well-named: You cannot see beyond its surface. What lies beneath the surface, however, can be fatal.
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By Jesse Lava
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| Sep. 14, 07 13:18 |
| Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is in a world of hurt as disclosure after disclosure emerges about his corrupt ties to a lobbying firm in D.C.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Sep. 13, 07 08:58 |
| If you are a family of four, your contribution to the war is $1,200 a year. Are you getting your money's worth?
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By Jesse Lava
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| Sep. 04, 07 19:32 |
| Mother Jones has a disturbing article out about Hillary Clinton's faith — disturbing not because of what it says about Hillary, as the authors seem to believe, but because of its vaguely insulting attitude toward evangelical Christianity.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 28, 07 12:58 |
Come to think of it,
I recall hearing some foot-tapping during my sermon last Sunday. Looks like I’m good to go for another term!
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 27, 07 11:39 |
| By its profound coarsening of both theology and politics, it may already have departed, leaving the rest of us to pick up the pieces.
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By Patrick Hornbeck
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| Aug. 26, 07 20:42 |
The nationally divisive debate on gay issues sparked by President Bush’s proposal for a constitutional amendment on marriage in the run-up to the 2004 election is nowhere near settled.
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By Eric Sapp
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| Aug. 23, 07 17:00 |
| Mother Jones "outs" Hillary Clinton as a devout Christian who's in a private prayer group in DC. That's meant to hurt her, but the Clinton campaign couldn't buy validation like that.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 12, 07 17:00 |
| At the end of the day, there is no such thing
as a homosexual corpse -- only dead corpses and, of course, spiritual ones, like
the church in question.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Aug. 10, 07 10:55 |
| The notion that punishment of the
hate-mongering right will accomplish anything but entertainment for the
hate-mongering left is fantasy land.
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By Linda Sue Seger
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| Aug. 08, 07 12:03 |
| At one time or another, I've been a conservative Christian and a progressive Christian and
everything in between. Are we really so different? Well, yes.
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By Stan A Moody
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| Jul. 25, 07 13:55 |
| "Prooftexting" leaves the Christian Right with blood on its hands -- Palestinian blood.
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By Robert P. Jones
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| Jul. 25, 07 12:08 |
For those who see abortion as a problem to address rather than a symbol to wield for partisan gain, the Democrats' abortion reduction bill should be welcomed as real progress.
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