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The Latest: January 2007 Archive

Last updated on: May 9, 2013 at 6:10 am by Faithful Democrats

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1/30, 6:28p CT: A proposed New York citizenship test has ridiculously hard questions; a minimum wage bill may actually come up for a vote in the Senate, though with small business tax breaks attached; flip-flopper McCain is courting the votes of social conservatives he once called "agents of intolerance.

1/29, 3:13p CT: The media keeps making an issue out of the non-issue that Barack Obama's father was a (non-practicing) Muslim. Media Matters details the media smears here. Here at FD, Jesse Lava finds another nugget of media bias, this time reinforcing the "devout = conservative" frame.

1/27, 8:52a CT: Harold Ford Jr. is the new DLC chair and talks religious hypocrisy at his debut breakfast. And aAnother Tennessean, Al Gore, gets hammered
when a Seattle teacher tries to show his movie in class; parents
complained that global warming, far from being an affront to God, is
God's sign of the rapture.

1/25, 3:13p CT: Barack Obama comes out for universal health care. Good for him.

1/25, 2:52p CT: A new kind of evangelical — or is it an old one? See also a new kind of moral majority.

1/24, 1:02p CT: Faithful Democrats is mentioned in this USA Today article
on saving the "E-word" (evangelical). FYI, the great activist Ron
Sider is inappropriately listed as a Faithful Democrat; he simply
signed a letter we helped organize.

1/22, 10:42a CT: Five great Democratic thinkers on faith and politics — strategists who are helping to shape the 2008 presidential race — are profiled at World Magazine.

1/20, 6:25p CT: Here at FD, Lisa Sharon Harper argues Hillary can win.

1/20, 10:02a CT: Hillary declares: "I'm in. And I'm in to win." Oh, and happy birthday to this site's director Jesse Lava!

1/19, 3:59p CT: Barack Obama says he's not sure
whether he's an evangelical. He also has the courage to admit to
doubts in his faith and deal with religion in its complexity, which is
better than many politicians can say.

1/19, 1:27p CT: Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are heading an
effort to counteract the conservatism of the Southern Baptist
Convention. It's called the New Baptist Covenant, and our friend Robert Parham at the Baptist Center for Ethics is a leading organizer.

1/18, 3:01p CT: Why scientists need Christians…a Q&A.

1/17, 4:11p CT: Here at FD, Jesse Lava asks for a real debate on religious freedom. Earlier, Stan Moody asked whether God really needs a good lobbyist.

1/16, 7:04p CT: A fascinating article
about kids from evangelical high schools who tread — apprehensively
but bravely — into the secular world to expand their horizons. A
great read.

1/16, 4:43p CT: In the news, MLK would understand the new evangelical push; the Christian right splinters on immigration; Democrats are in the center on social issues.

1/15, 1:04p CT: Happy birthday, Dr. King — a modern-day prophet. Here's his last speech , from the night before he was murdered. Chills.

1/12, 2:20p CT: In the news, Dobson gropes to hang on to power; Catholic Charities tries what the government has failed to do on poverty; can a Mormon win the presidency?

1/11, 11:39a CT: On site, Jesse Lava responds in the latest blog war and Adam Parish pushes for women leaders in the Southern Baptist Church. Elsewhere, progressive faith leaders vow to hold the Dem Congress accountable; Muslims are (shocker) leaving the GOP.

1/10, 8:18a CT: Stan Moody sees a parallel between Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega: both thugs were once sponsored by the U.S.

1/8, 4:23p CT: The immigration debate gets religious; Ben Wittes notes in the New Republic that favoring gay marriage should not mean opposing democracy; evangelicals know Pat Robertson is not playing with a full deck.

1/8, 11:40a CT: Elizabeth Austin gets provocative: if the
religious right hates homosexuality and abortion because they
discourage pro-creation, shouldn't the righties also oppose monogamy?

1/5, 1:41p CT: Been on vacation for a while. Check out Barack on ethics reform, as well Jesse Lava on the great Mara Vanderslice, Lisa Sharon Harper on Saddam's execution, and Patrick Whelan on Catholics' culpability in the Iraq decable.

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