Values Voters

God (Or The Gods) And Politics

Wade Clark Roof | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Values Voters, Religion and Politics, Catholic Vote, Catholic Church, Religion in America, God in America, Four Gods, Religion News

God is no stranger to the culture wars of the past three decades but now the more politically shaped Gods take on a new presence in our public life.

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Evangelical Good News For Romney?

Neil J. Young | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Religion and Politics, Values Voters, Romney Faith, 2012 Election, Evangelical Voters, Evangelical Christians, Mitt Romney Mormonism, Romney Evangelical Voters, Evangelicals, Religion News

Not since John F. Kennedy ran for president has a candidate for the White House faced such stiff and persistent difficulties stemming from his faith. Yet again, white evangelicals may provide the critical vote.

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WATCH: Conservative Values Voters Sound Off On Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 12.10.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A reckless, selfish mob is on the loose in southern Manhattan, its values out of step with ordinary Americans and cleaved from the princ...

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A New Values Debate For 2012

Rev. Jennifer Butler | Posted 06.13.2011

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Conventional wisdom about faith and politics usually (and falsely) divides "values voters" opposed to abortion and gay marriage from those focused on kitchen-table issues like jobs and taxes.

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Why Values-Voters Have Completely Failed

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Values Voters, Divorce, Conservatives, Values, Family Values, Gay Marriage, Evangelicals, Politics News

My Christian brothers and fellow social conservatives failed by adopting a narrow definition of values that centered almost exclusively on opposition to gay marriage and abortion to the exclusion of virtually everything else.

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The Christian Right in Context: The Obama Years

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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The "Christian America" vision pushed by the Christian Right stands in stark contrast with the biblical vision of the kingdom of God.

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Voting Against

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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There was very little values narrative in this election. And there was almost no attention to the faith community and its concerns. But the issues we face now are profoundly moral questions. We have work to do.

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Democrats Stung by Huge Losses With Faith Voters

Eric Sapp | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's politics 101. If you don't spend time talking to a group of voters, engaging them, or showing them they matter, you tend to struggle with them on election day.

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Religious Right Group Underwhelmed By 'Pledge To America'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The religious right offered a hesitant embrace of the Republican Party's new "Pledge to America," with several groups saying they are happy the GOP in...

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Mike Pence Wins 'Value Voters' Straw Poll

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A straw vote suggests that social conservatives favor Indiana Rep. Mike Pence to head a Republican presidential ticket with former Alas...

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Values Voters See Common Cause, If Not Agenda, With Tea Party

Religion News Service | By Adelle M. Banks | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) With its emphasis on lower taxes and smaller government, the "tea party" movement hasn't sp...

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'Values Voter Summit' Will Likely Be Missing Jewish Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thousands of conservatives will be coming to Washington, D.C. this week for one of the biggest religious right conferences of the year: the annual Val...

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Family Values: Who Is it Trying to "Destroy Marriage" Again?

Waymon Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The same people that have claimed that we are somehow weakening their marriages by simply being together are actively seeking to strip my husband and I of any rights or recognition our marriage provides us.

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Is There a Plague in Mexico City?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Abortion, Mexico, Mexico City, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Family Planning, Gay Rights, Women's Health, Values Voters, Politics News

Opponents of the soon to be enacted gay marriage law see themselves as fighting a rising tide of rights, following Mexico City's legalization of early abortions in 2007.

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America Needs A True Revolution Of Values

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

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Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- Reds to Beds

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.

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Moral Kombat: Jon Stewart Takes On The Values Voters Summit (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fresh from his Emmy win, Jon Stewart took the stage Tuesday night to take on some odd events and speeches from the Values Voters Summit, a gathering s...

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Roots of Right-Wing Populist Rage -- the Christian Right

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many of the ideas in the Political Right ignore about 50 years of social science -- but not in their book. Or on the TV they watch. Or the radio they listen to. Or the magazines they read.

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Fox and MSNBC Reporters at Values Voters: Rude, Disruptive, Lazy

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

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While liberals and leftists keep laughing at them, the Christian Right will be busy trying to craft a last laugh -- and their track record is nothing to sneer at.

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Americans Embrace Pro-Education, Pro-Prevention, Pro-Choice Values in Historic Election

Scott Swenson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Social conservatives have a simple choice to make. They can recognize the US as a pluralistic nation with diverse beliefs and work with people they disagree with, or marginalize themselves.

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Eyes on the Catholic Vote

Chris Korzen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Catholics account for 1 in 4 voters nationwide and have sided with the popular vote winner in the last nine presidential elections.

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The True Values of Values Voters

Robyn Blumner | Posted 05.25.2011

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The life prospects of a teenage couple with a child and only high school degrees have collapsed in this modern economy.

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Why the Right's Messaging is Working

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why is the young brilliant upstart Obama only ahead by single digits. At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.

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Pastor Hagee's Armageddon Politics

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hagee-style American Christians push to prepare the ground for the second coming of Jesus Christ, a plan that focuses on advancing Israeli interests and that exerts increasing influence on U.S. foreign policy.

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Religious Conservatives Take A Back Seat In '08 Elections

The New York Times | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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AFTER the 2004 elections, religious conservatives were riding high. Newly anointed by pundits as "values voters" -- a more flattering label than "reli...

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