Evangelicals

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Aug 5 - Former Executive director of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed says values voters will "come home" to Republican party. ...

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DALLAS - Are Hispanic Evangelicals a key swing vote in this U.S. presidential election? Their possible role in the outcome of the Nov. 4 contest between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain will be the focus of a conference in Vanguard, California, Thursday and Friday organized by the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC). Religion plays [...] ...

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In the competition for white evangelical votes, this year there's been a role reversal: It's the Democrat who is comfortable quoting Scripture and talking openly about his beliefs. ...

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Jeff Glor examines Evangelical Christian swing voters, many of them Republicans, in swing-state Missouri who are mostly torn between candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. ...

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Pastor Mike Rose, senior pastor at the First Federated Church in Des Moines, Iowa, offers his insight on the presidential candidates and whether they appeal to evangelical voters. His church is one of the larger nondenominational evangelical churches in the area. ...

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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: www.MiamiHerald.com --- 8 days ago
Prominent evangelical leaders are warning Sen. John McCain against picking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his running mate, saying their troops will abandon the Republican ticket on Election Day if that happens. (May need to register) ...

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Ed Kilgore asks a good question: Why are Evangelicals more pro-life than Catholics? There are variable measurements of this phenomenon, but no real doubt about the basics.  A September 2007 Pew survey showed white evangelical Protestants agreeing that abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by a 65-31 magin; Catholics favored keeping abortion legal in all or most cases by a 51-44 margin (with no appreciable difference between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Catholics) ... Moreover, the evangelical-Catholic gap on abortion looks likely to increase in the future. An April 2004 Pew survey providing generational breakdowns showed that white Evangelicals under 35 favored abortion restrictions by more than a two-to-one margin (71% among those under 25), while those over 65 actually (if narrowly) opposed more restrictions.  The generational trend lines among white Catholics moved in exactly the opposite direction. As Kilgore notes, there's nothing obvious or inevitable about this breakdown: Catholic anti-abortion views, after all, are undergirded by a long series of increasingly emphatic papal encyclicals; a natural law and bioethics tradition stretching back all the way to Aristotle; an overall theological position making church teachings on matters of faith and morals binding on believers; a relatively low level of tolerance for individual dissent; and a teaching and disciplinary system that can be (and in some parts of the country, i ...

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I heard Rick Warren talking on National Public Radio the other day. Warren is the author of the mega-best seller, The Purpose Driven Life, the founder and pastor of the 22,000-member of Saddleback Community Church in southern California and soon will host the first joint appearance of Barack Obama and John McCain in the presidential campaign. What caught my attention is Warren's description of the changing nature of political involvement by evangelical Christians - the group of voters ... ...

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Christ alone. Solus Christus. That was the watchword of our Protestant forefathers almost five-hundred years ago. Twice as long as the existence of the America government. It meant that only Christ was the Savior of the world. That Christ alone could and does save sinners. This was just a short-hand and positive way for the classical Protestants to deny that there was any other person or way to heaven: neither our works, someone else's works, philosophy, good intentions, sociology, politics, sports... "So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy" (Rom. 9:16). Now 57% of Evangelicals polled (amongst 35,000 adults) deny that proposition. But then they've been denying it for years, decades even. For instance, reflecting on what I was taught as a teen-ager: 1. Pagans who never hear the Gospel can live by the "light of nature" and enter heaven. 2. Infants who die enter heaven by virtue of their supposed innocence. 3. Jews in the OT had to obey the Ten Commandments as grounds for eternal life I suppose other readers could come up with more well-established "exceptions". These are exceptions that classical Protestants did not accept. No one enters heaven because they are innocent; and no one can earn their way to heaven through their own creative religious ways ("light of nature") or even through God's own Ten Commandments (Gal. 2:15ff.). With these exceptions (and the pointed lack of historical and bib ...

Source: www.boxxet.com --- 8 days ago
Written by dekerivers Other well-placed Christian conservatives say that although many evangelical leaders could accept and work for a McCain-Romney ticket, Mr. Huckabee's supporters tend to be "rabid" in their views against Mr. Romney because of his faith: They do not regard Mormonism as a Christian denom... Original story at dekerivers (WordPress) . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Mitt Romney . ...

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On “The Albert Mohler Radio Program” last Thursday, guest host Russell Moore welcomed Marvin Olasky and Richard Land to the show. They discussed whether the vice presidential choices made by John McCain and Barack Obama would matter to Evangelicals. They also speculated as to who might be selected for the No. 2 slot on each [...] ...

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OAKLAND, California, Aug 4 (IPS) - For the past three decades, the religious right has dominated the religio- political dialogue in the United States. The right's growth, and its agenda -- which revolved around so-called traditional family values iss ... ...

Source: www.renewamerica.us --- 4 days ago
(Grant Swank) - John McCain presently is into a reality kick to expose B. Hussein Obama. More power to him. He's on the truth track. The more truth McCain kicks up, the more Obama the Liar will be revealed as the deceiver Boy he actually is. To assist McCain, Evangelicals throughout the entire world should come to the fore in exposing Muslim B. Hussein... ...

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OAKLAND, California, Aug 4 (IPS) - For the past three decades, the religious right has dominated the religio- political dialogue in the United States. The right’s growth, and its agenda -- which revolved around so-called traditional family values issues including, but not limited to, opposition to abortion and full equality for gays and lesbians -- was pursued on two tracks: they built multi-million dollar political and media enterprises, and they made themselves an indispensable force within the Republican Party. ...

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The following is a typical opinion from Democratic Party surrogates regarding a recent lawsuit again the Osteens.   It is amazing how much contempt Democrats have for Evangelicals and Republicans. I hope the flight attendant wins, and takes all the Osteens $$$$$$ They are evangelical con artists.......... Aug. 6, 2008: Victoria and Joel Osteen exit a courtroom in Houston. Victoria Osteen, co-pastor of Lakewood Church, is being sued by Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown, who says Osteen assaulted her on a plane. Aug. 6, 2008: Victoria and Joel Osteen exit a courtroom in Houston. Victoria Osteen, co-pastor of Lakewood Church, is being sued by Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown, who says Osteen assaulted her on a plane. Aug. 6, 2008: Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown leaves a courtroom in Houston. Brown says she was assaulted during a flight by Victoria Osteen, wife of superstar evangelist Joel Osteen, and has filed a lawsuit against her. Brown wants 10% of all of the Osteen's assets for emotional pain and suffering.  Give me break.  I have met my share of rude and abusive airline personnel.  I hate to fly anymore.  Read and post comments | Send to a friend ...

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(Disclaimer: this is an attempt at humor so please take it in that vein.) The American Family Association thinks it has come up with the perfect solution for America’s current energy ‘crisis’: American Solutions for Winning the Future. But Evangelicals can go even farther if we want to realize immediate energy savings. [...] ...

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A lot of people seem to think John McCain’s choices for a running mate have been narrowed down to two: Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty. But right-wing Evangelicals are vehemently opposed to Romney . Prominent evangelical leaders are warning Sen. John McCain against picking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his running mate, saying their troops will abandon the Republican ticket on Election Day if that happens. They say Mr. Romney lacks trust on issues such as outlawing abortion and opposing same-sex marriage and because he is a Mormon. Opposition is particularly powerful among those who supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in the Republican presidential primaries earlier this year. “McCain and Romney would be like oil and water,” said evangelical novelist Tim LaHaye, who supported Mr. Huckabee. “We aren’t against Mormonism, but Romney is not a thoroughgoing evangelical and his flip-flopping on issues is understandable in a liberal state like Massachusetts, but our people won’t understand that.” The Rev. Rob McCoy, pastor of Calvary Chapel in Thousand Oaks, Calif., who speaks at evangelical events across the country, told The Washington Times, “I will vote for McCain unless he does one thing. You know what that is? If he puts Romney on the ticket as veep. ”It will alienate the entire evangelical community - 62 million self-professing Evangelicals in this country, half of them registered to vote, are going to be deeply saddene ...

Source: jackrich.wordpress.com --- 4 days ago
Once again, we read that a lot of Evangelicals who might otherwise support John McCain will be angry if Mitt Romney is his running mate. From the Washington Times: Prominent evangelical leaders are warning Sen. John McCain against picking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as his running mate, saying their troops will abandon the Republican [...] ...