Faithful Democrats
10/31, 10:19p CT: Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack writes an exclusive to FaithfulDemocrats.com on what rural voters want.
10/31, 4:49p CT: Kenneth Walker sees the omens for The Ides of Novemer of the Bush presidency.
10/31, 7:55a CT: We're mentioned in the Minneapolis Star Trib amid the "Pope is the Antichrist" buzz.
10/30, 9:43p CT: Oregon Dems stand on their faith.
10/30, 5:35p CT: We have a few faith-based voter guides to check out in our action center.
10/30, 5:30p CT: Catholics United picks up on the story we broke and demands a straight, honest answer from Michele Bachmann on her church's belief that the papacy is the Antichrist.
10/30, 3:06p CT: Trick or treat!
10/30, 1:26p CT: Headline of the Day from the Minneapolis Strib: A Friendly Evangelical Smackdown.
10/30, 7:03a CT: Our Candidate Spotlight is on Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm this week.
10/29, 7:47p CT: Ranking system predicting the most powerful members of Congress if Dems win…
10/29, 6:33p CT: Read the FaithfulDemocrats.com interview with Barack Obama.
10/29, 2:14p CT: Here are Bachmann's actual words and our response to them. Long story short: she misrepresented her church's position, attacked those who pointed it out, and left it at that. Late update: the local network is picking this up; see the video on the right-hand side.
10/29, 11:06a CT: Due to our story
, Michele Bachmann was asked in a debate yesterday whether she supports
her church's faith that the papacy is the Antichrist. Exact language
coming soon, but for now it seems fairly clear that she simply lied
(or, to be generous, was inaccurate) about her church's position.
10/28, 7:18p CT: The Minneapolis Star-Tribune picks up our concern over congressional candidate Michele Bachmann's silence on her church's anti-Catholic stance.
10/28, 1:17p CT: Shaun Casey has the top ten reasons for Christians to vote Democrat in 2006.
10/28, 11:13a CT: Eric Sapp proposes framing for the top issues here.
10/27, 3:36p CT: Michael Happ asks not what Jesus would think of the religious right, but what he did think of the religious right.
10/27, 3:10p CT: Michael J. Fox hits back against Limbaugh — magnanimously — on Katie Couric.
10/27, 12:10p CT: Luke Shaefer says that a Democratic Congress
(knock on wood) would be wise to start their agenda with a popular,
consensus issue: raising the minimum wage.
10/27, 1:09p CT: Worried about the IRS, a number of denominations are advising local churches not to preach or advocate partisan politics. How does your church deal with addressing politics? Tell us in the Reader Diaries.
10/27, 11:53a CT: A letter on the death penalty by Rev. Paul Stumme-Diers of Wisconsin is our Sermon of the Week.
10/27, 11:46a CT: In the Book Corner, Becky Garrison shows how a "Red and Blue" God leads to a "Black and Blue" church.
10/27, 10:03a CT: The Oregon Democratic Party has done some extraordinary things in developing a serious religious outreach program. Kudos to them.
10/26, 11:20a CT: Lisa Sharon Harper says the Republicans are now revealing their true colors — time after time after time.
10/26, 10:54p CT: The moral scandal of poverty; watchdogs accuse churches of illegally supporting Republicans; a new evangelical liberalism? And, just for kicks.
10/26, 4:27p CT: Moby continues to give his testimony at Sojourners.
10/25, 11:44p CT: Tom Donnelly digs up new data on those liberal evangelicals.
10/25, 11:37p CT: Tennessee TV stations refusing to run an RNC attack ad against Harold Ford Jr. This is the ad that was supposed to replace one of the racist ones, which got pulled after an outcry.
10/25, 5:08p CT: Our co-chair Roy Herron has the quote of the
week in Sojourners' e-newsletter, Sojomail: "Some of us have been
reluctant to speak of our faith in the political arena…because we can
see a danger that people deeply rooted in faith will seek to use God
rather than be used by God." It comes from this article.
10/25, 3:33p CT: Loui Itoh sees the difference between opposing a sin and eliminating the legal rights of the sinner. (Yes, she's talking about gays.)
10/25, 11:10a CT: National Catholic Reporter editorializes against White House cynicism on faith; an Alabama pastor calls for Focus on the Family to stop demonizing liberals; all eyes are on the Ford race (spotlighted below).
10/25, 2:31p CT: More racist ads targeting Harold Ford in TN: this time, instead of jungle fever, it's jungle drumming every time Ford is mentioned. Unreal.
10/25, 9:56a CT: GOP squabbles over race-baiting ad in Tennessee (miscegenation implied).
10/24, 3:35p CT: Stem cells are back. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver talks faith and stem cells on our site, while Michael J. Fox appears in an ad for Claire McCaskill.
10/24, 3:15p CT: Tomorrow's Christian Science Monitor features FaithfulDemocrats.com as yet more news comes that religious conservatives are losing faith in the GOP.
10/24, 12:30p CT: Tom Donnelly finds a new Newsweek poll that shows the Republican base is crumbling.
10/24, 11:40a CT: Isaiah is for peace-and-justice Christians; GOP keeps pushing the evangelical vote (how could they not?).
10/24, 11:27a CT: Latino and black pastors are rejecting GOP outreach.
10/23, 9:44p CT: Biblical scholar Obery Hendricks is asked: how should a Christian treat homosexuals?
10/23, 6:16p CT: DailyKos covered us earlier today. Friendly crowd!
10/23, 2:46p CT: Harold Ford Jr. is in our spotlight; Eric Sapp is still bullish on porn.
10/23, 11:25a CT: FaithfulDemocrats.com breaks the story
that Republican congressional candidate Michele Bachmann (MN-6) belongs
to a denomination that says the papacy is the Antichrist. How will her
district's 30 percent Catholic population feel about that?
10/23, 12:42a CT: We've got a big story coming out…stay tuned today.
10/22, 10:25a CT: The Missourian features us in a report on the "religious left."
10/21, 3:20p CT: Tom Donnelly says the key for Clinton is the "we."
10/21, 3:18p CT: Patrick Hornbeck thinks there's something a little sleazy about Mark Foley's attempt to blame an old priest for his misdeeds.
10/21, 11:17a CT: Bill Clinton and our own Eric Sapp talk "common good."
10/20, 4:22p CT: Hear Executive Director Jesse Lava get interviewed on DC radio.
10/20, 1:24p CT: Christianity Today says we must save the E-word.
10/20, 10:25a CT: Amid Republican "precriminations" anticipating their November loss,
Dick Armey, for once, is right on the money: “The Republicans are
talking about things like gay marriage and so forth, and the Democrats
are talking about the things people care about, like how do I pay my
bills?”
10/20, 9:19a CT: Does liberal Christian Elizabeth Austin read the same Gospel as evangelical David Kuo?
10/19, 11:33p CT: Shaun Casey applauds Kuo's effort but questions his theological vision.
10/19, 7:13p CT: We're featured on NPR! Our co-founder David Wilhelm is quoted.
10/19, 2:35p CT: Evangelicals are beginning to join forces with Democrats when it comes to the environment.
10/19, 2:00p CT: Republicans lie again, this time claiming Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. How outrageous.
10/19, 9:28a CT: Eric Sapp hails the strange-bedfellows coalition that's supporting The Great Warming movie coming out. We do, too: take folks to see this movie. It'll blow your hair back.
10/19, 9:07a CT: Priest who abused Foley says "let bygones be bygones and that he still "has great memories" of sexually abusive trips he took with Foley.
10/18, 8:04p CT: Desperate Ken Blackwell says Ted Strickland supports pedophiles and could be gay. He's running as the Christian candidate, by the way.
10/19, 8:47a CT: Re the Kuo book, John Rushing says the Republicans' god is power, and there is no other.
10/18, 5:03p CT: Look at all our friends! It's an article with 12 of the most influential Dems
when it comes to faith. Our board members Mike McCurry and Mara
Vanderslice are on the list, as are our bloggers Amy Sullivan and Shaun
Casey. Our co-chair Romal Tune, director Jesse Lava, and blogger Eric
Sapp are quoted, too. It's a party!
10/18, 3:03p CT: Our co-chair Roy Herron was just on CNN
going head-to-head with Richard Land, a leader in the Southern Baptist
Convention. He did a wonderful job, reminding viewers that when Jesus
said he came to bring good news to the poor, he didn't mean huge tax
cuts for the rich or crushing debt for our children. Watch here.
10/18, 11:41a CT: The Great Warming, a climate change movie that's coming out on November 3, just released a call to action that FaithfulDemocrats.com is joining. Check it out.
10/18, 12:47p CT: Evangelicals call for action in Darfur.
10/18, 8:08a CT: Lisa Sharon Harper says the Kuo book reads like a romance novel:
the steamy stolen glance held for moments too long, the mid-night back
rub leading to the stolen kiss, the adulterous abandon on the
rain-soaked beach.
10/17, 2:45p CT: Denis McDonough talks about partisan jabs from the White House with Kuo's new book and our theologian Chuck Gutenson answers a question about picking the right faith.
10/17, 2:30p CT: The Tennessean has an interesting article about the polarization of people of faith with gay marriage, which includes a quotation from Executive Director Jesse Lava.
10/17, 2:20p CT: Co-Chair State Senator Roy Herron is featured in the
10/17, 1:35p CT: E.J. Dionne Jr. says with all of the attention, Kuo's thesis must be right.
10/17, 9:05a CT: Amy Sullivan smacks down the White House's arguments against David Kuo.
10/17, 7:46a CT: Stan Moody, on the Kuo book, says the goofy will always be with us.
10/16, 1:16p CT: Wolf Blitzer will be interviewing David Kuo at 4pm ET today.
10/16, 10:01a CT: Tom Donnelly finds an amusing answer from John Ashcroft on why he's a Christian.
10/16, 7:10a CT: This week, the Candidate Spotlight is on Sherrod Brown, who's leading a tight race for the US Senate seat in Ohio.
10/15, 10:34p CT: David Kuo on 60 Minutes
talking about Bush's empty promises on faith-based initiatives. Money
quote, on the Bush administration: "You’re taking the sacred and
you’re making it profane. You’re taking Jesus and reducing him to some
precinct captain, to some get-out-the-vote guy."
10/15, 10:08p CT: Pope names four new saints; Antonin Scalia debates ACLU president.
This week, FaithfulDemocrats.com is blogging Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction. Every day we'll have more bloggers with more analysis. We also have released a statement on the book.
10/15, 2:50p CT: Coming tomorrow: a statement from FaithfulDemocrats.com on the David Kuo tell-all book. We've got a good idea of what's in there, but we're devouring it first thing tomorrow.
10/14, 11:07a CT: Media Matters has the run-down on ABC's The Note's defensive treatment of the Kuo book.
10/14, 1:47p CT: Gerry Studds, the first openly gay Congressman who was embroiled in a sex scandal of his own, died today.
He never apologized for having sex with a 17-year-old page, and his
constituents kept re-electing him. But it was wrong then, and it's
wrong now.
10/13, 9:42p CT: After all the failed promises from the Bush administration, James Dobson is still drinking the kool-aid. But Tucker Carlson says the GOP elite has contempt for evangelicals.
10/13, 9:22p CT: Here are the YouTube links to Keith Olbermann's
great pieces on David Kuo's new book exposing the cynicism, corruption,
and criminality that have plagued Bush's faith-based initiatives
program. Here are part one and part two .
10/13, 2:17p CT: This week's Book Corner features Dr. Robin Meyers and his latest book, Why the Christian Right is Wrong.
10/13, 1:06p CT: Jesse Lava says the Foley scandal is the catalyst, but not the underlying cause, that has finally laid bare the hypocrisy of Republican values-speak.
10/13, 12:14p CT: Patrick Whelan says Bush is blaming Clinton for a Christian approach to North Korea.
10/13, 9:25a CT: The coming gay Republican purge?
10/13, 12:01a CT: Post away!
10/12, 7:08p CT: Our own Amy Sullivan will be on Scarborough
Country tonight at 9pm ET on MSNBC. She'll be discussing the new David
Kuo tell-all book on Bush's faith-based initiatives program. Tune in!
10/12, 12:26p CT: If you're in the Chicago area, come to the 10-year anniversary celebration of Protestants for the Common Good this Sunday. These are good people. And it's free!
10/12, 11:27a CT: Hastert promised to resign? Excerpts from the David Kuo tell-all about Bush's faith-based program are here, and it is certainly blood-boiling stuff: lies, corruption, constitutional crimes, etc.
10/12, 8:24a CT: Wow. Analysis of Gallup's recent poll finds white churchgoers flocking to Democratic candidates — a great sign for November 7.
10/12, 7:49a CT: The United Church of Christ joins our call for Hastert's resignation; constituents can contact their representative here.
10/11, 10:31p CT: OK, one more: Lisa Sharon Harper has a fascinating, sorrowful conversation with a high-ranking, anti-war officer. Amazing what anonymity brings out…
10/11, 10:28p CT: Last pre-Colbert post for the night: Amy Sullivan is just gleeful
about a new tell-all book exposing Bush's cynical faith-based
initiatives program; she's also dismayed that a Bush press conference
about school shootings never mentions guns.
10/11, 6:29p CT: It might snow tonight here in Chicago, but Shaun Casey found a NY campaign ad that's warm and sunny.
10/11, 11:30a CT: Howard Fineman finds there's not much "Good News in the Pews" for the GOP; Religion and Ethics Weekly reports on Hispanic voters; United Methodist clergy speak out against North Korea's nuclear test; and "values" (narrowly defined) mean less in the Ohio gov race.
10/11, 10:20a CT: Four years ago today, the Senate voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq. Tell us your thoughts on that here.
10/11, 9:50a CT: 655,000 civilians dead in Iraq
due to the invasion. The number may seem farfetched, but read the
article to the end; it's convincing, not to mention sickening.
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10/11, 9:33a CT: Pastor Dan says the Republicans are the "party of betrayal."
10/11, 9:12a CT: This week's sermon by Rev. Anna Saxon challenges disciples of Christ to see the uninsured as neighbors in need and to do something about their plight.
10/10, 9:23p CT: Randall Balmer finds someone with another reason to vote Democratic: to hasten the return of Jesus. Just passing it along.
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10/10, 9:15a CT: Christian Alliance for Progress comes out with their own Christian Voters Values Guide 2006 for the election.
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