Evangelical Leader

Source: abcnews.go.com --- 22 days ago
Obama and McCain to participate in forum with Rick Warren. ...

Source: www.cbsnews.com --- 29 days ago
Evangelical Leader Richard Land tells CBSNews.com that John McCain's vice presidential selection can either reassure conservatives or turn them off and calls it the most important decision he'll make. ...

Source: www.christianpost.com --- 27 days ago
A key Evangelical Leader with influence on American politics emphasized this past week the importance of Republican John McCain’s vice presidential pick on the decision of values voters this fall. ...

Source: www.christiantoday.com --- 26 days ago
Republican presumptive presidential candidate John McCains selection for vice president will be the most important decision he makes in his whole campaign says key Evangelical Leader ...

Source: www.americablog.com --- 22 days ago
ABC's Jake Tapper is clearly, politely and obliquely, asking Evangelical Leader Rick Warren about John McCain , who had an adulterous affair with Cindy while he was married to his first wife. (There are also rumors about other women as well.) Warren's answer is clearly directed at McCaim: WARREN: John Edwards and others like him (emphasis added) have lost the trust of America because they lied, and fundamentally beneath every affair it’s dishonesty, its deceit, its deception. They’re lying to God. They’re lying to themselves. They’re lying to their wives and they’re lying to the public. How do you trust someone who’s constantly lying? You can’t. That’s why it is a myth to say their personal life doesn’t matter. It does matter -- all of leadership is built on credibility. TAPPER: Would you have compunctions about voting for someone who had cheated on his wife? WARREN: Absolutely I would. Absolutely I would. Because if you can’t keep your faith to your most sacred vow – “’til death do us part” -- how in the world can I trust you to lead my family? My government? My nation? ...Absolutely I would. I think people first need to ask forgiveness and then earn trust back over time. Can trust be re-earned? Absolutely but it takes time. Since Tapper and Warren were still rather oblique in their reference to McCain, will the corporate media again choose to ignore McCain's adultery, even now that a top Evangelical Leader has said he'd have a ...

Source: www.americablog.com --- 16 days ago
Seems Dobson had some choice words only a few years ago about John McCain's adultery. I guess the latest version of the Bible must have repealed the admonitions against adultery, or else Dobson wouldn't be now wooing McCain. "The Senator," Dobson said, "is being touted by the media as a man of principle, yet he was involved with other women while married to his first wife, and was implicated in the so-called Keating scandal with four other senators. He was eventually reprimanded by the Congress for the 'appearance of impropriety.' The Senator reportedly has a violent temper and can be extremely confrontational and profane when angry. These red flags about Senator McCain's character are reminiscent of the man who now occupies the White House." And this is what Dobson had to say just last year , that was before Dobson apparently started going soft on adultery: "Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances," Focus on the Family founder James Dobson told the Christian radio show Jerry Johnson Live in January. ...

Source: www.prospect.org --- 21 days ago
At a press conference this afternoon, organizers and supporters of The Call, the massive anti-abortion, anti-gay rally scheduled to take place on the National Mall tomorrow, claimed that abortion remains a "foundational issue" for young evangelicals, and challenged John McCain to pick an anti-choice, Evangelical running mate lest he lose their support in November. The tenor of the event was clear: this intensely conservative wing of the Evangelical movement is afraid, very afraid, of Barack Obama attracting the votes of the young voters in its ranks. The Call's organizer, Lou Engle , who had endorsed Mike Huckabee during the primaries, was joined by Huckabee, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and High Impact Leadership Coalition president Harry Jackson , neither of whom got behind Huckabee when it mattered most to the conservative Evangelical rank and file. Today, both Perkins and Jackson issued ultimatums to McCain about his prospective running mate. Jackson warned that "if Sen. McCain chooses a pro-abortion running mate, he will give the election to Obama . . . . [It] would be tantamount to political suicide." Perkins was a little less direct, but did say that choosing a pro-life, Evangelical running mate would generate the necessary enthusiasm and excitement necessary to get Evangelical voters to the polls. (Neither Perkins nor Jackson mentioned Huckabee, and Huckabee denied, again, wanting to be McCain's pick, an ...

Source: queensspeech.com --- 16 days ago
Seems Dobson had some choice words only a few years ago about John McCain's adultery. I guess the latest version of the Bible must have repealed the admonitions against adultery, or else Dobson wouldn't be now wooing McCain... ...

Source: christianity.about.com --- 3 days ago
Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images Evangelical Christians seem to be responding enthusiastically to John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate. Up until now, one outspoken conservative Leader,... ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 7 days ago
Minneapolis, Aug. 30: John McCain's choice of Republican running mate -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- has made a key Evangelical Leader and a foe of him, a believer, the New York Times reports. ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 22 days ago
How personal is Rick Warren planning to get when he interviews John McCain and Barack Obama during their appearance Saturday at his Saddleback Church in Orange County? The Evangelical Leader and author told David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network... ...

Source: www.salon.com --- 7 days ago
Via my former colleague, Time's Michael Scherer, I see that Focus on the Family head James Dobson announced on Friday that he will vote for John McCain. That the influential Evangelical Leader would eventually come around, despite his longtime skepticism about McCain, is no surprise. But the timing of the announcement, coming as quickly as it did after the news that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be McCain's running mate, seems to indicate just how successful McCain was at appealing to the social conservative wing of his party by making this choice, and just how politically astute a move this may turn out to be for the presumptive Republican nominee. ...

Source: www.npr.org --- 33 days ago
Evangelical Leader and best-selling author Rick Warren plans to host a civil forum featuring Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain later this month. Warren says the candidates will have an opportunity to address deeper, moral questions about the direction of the country in a non-debate setting. ...

Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 3 days ago
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Republicans at this nominating convention were totally caught off guard by the Labor Day shock announcement that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, 17, is five months pregnant. Many of the GOP faithful learned about Bristol’s baby from reporters who received a statement from the John McCain campaign Monday morning. But once they recovered, delegates, convention officials and lawmakers instinctively accented the positive. At least Bristol didn’t have an abortion, the pro-lifers said. And none called for her mom to quit the GOP ticket, even going so far as to predict the vital Evangelical voters won’t be turned off. “I think it’s gonna be a non-issue,” influential Evangelical Leader Richard Land told The Mouth. “It would be an issue if she had an abortion.” Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, who last week called Palin “straight out of veep central casting,” was as stunned as anyone learning of the Palin family’s frank disclosure. Many struggled to react to the news - or simply took the safe route by telling reporters to back off. American Values president and top Christian conservative Gary Bauer, who has described Palin as a “grand slam home run,” had to be pressed to say what he really thought about the revelation. “I don’t want to say it’s good news — that’s kind of silly,” Bauer finally blurted out, adding that the only political upside is the ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 4 days ago
At the convention, NR's Byron York has been talking to folks about Bristol Palin's pregnancy: I spoke this morning to Marlys Popma, who is the well-known Iowa Evangelical Leader who is now the head of Evangelical outreach for the McCain... ...

Source: www.signonsandiego.com --- 19 days ago
LAKE FOREST – Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain aired some sharp differences on issues, interspersed with revealing personal insights, during genial back-to-back interviews yesterday with the Leader of a prominent Evangelical megachurch. ...

Source: weblogs.chicagotribune.com --- 29 days ago
Evangelicals would like McCain to pick someone like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for veep. (AP/Brian Wallace) by James Oliphant Richard Land, the Evangelical Leader who earlier this week called Barack Obama "a first-class arsonist" in describing Obama's views on abortion, had some strong words for John McCain in an interview with CBS News. McCain and Evangelical Christians now are partners in a marriage of convenience. But Land, the said that could change if McCain blows his vice... ...

Source: weblogs.chicagotribune.com --- 30 days ago
by Frank James Sen. Barack Obama is a "first-class arsonist?" That incendiary description was how he was described by Rev. Richard Land, the well-known Evangelical Leader, who was interviewed by National Public Radio's Mara Liasson for a piece on evangelicals and the presidential election. Land was saying that the Democratic senator from Illinois was viewed by some evangelicals who view their choice of presidential candidates this year as a pick-your-poison opportunity since Sen. John... ...

Source: blogs.cfr.org --- 19 days ago
Both presidential candidates participated in a weekend forum hosted by an Evangelical Christian Leader over the weekend. Asked in the forum to name the most “gut-wrenching” decision he ever had to make, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said deciding to oppose the war in Iraq was “as tough [...] ...

Source: religion.theledger.com --- 21 days ago
Whatever you think of Rick Warren, you have to give him his due as the stealth Evangelical Leader. Without a lot of fanfare, he's positioned himself as the new face of Evangelical America, and it's the face of your big, friendly next-door neighbor. (Although Warren has gotten himself some sort of ... ...