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The Latest: October 2007 Archive

Last updated on: May 9, 2013 at 6:09 am by Faithful Democrats

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10/30, 5:44p CT: Sorry nothing’s been happening at FD for a few days; brief family emergency, but back now. Check out Rev. Ken Walker’s take on Genarlow Wilson here at FD.

10/26, 10:43a CT: Genarlow Wilson freed in Georgia! This is good.

10/23, 2:32p CT: Richard Land on the possibility of a conservative third-party candidate if Giuliani wins the nomination.

10/22, 11:02a CT: Colbert: “If gay men get married that threatens my marriage immediately, because I only got married as a taunt to gay men because they couldn’t.”

10/22, 12:42a CT: Here at FD, Stan Moody on Palestinian Christians.

10/20, 4:13p CT: Romney wins the values voters’ straw poll, by virtue of online support; Huckabee won by a wide margin among those who were in attendance.

10/20, 12:03p CT: We have some choice nuggets for you today from the Values Voter Summit: Mark Levin calls Hillary “Her Thighness” (way to counter the stereotype of Republicans as anti-woman), Mike Huckabee brings down the house, and the party is apparently in a “civil war.”

10/20, 12:01a CT: Our blogger at the Values Voter Summit gets handed a pink tract assailing Mitt Romney’s pro-gay history.

10/19, 5:59p CT: Our blogging of the right-wing Values Voter Summit is in effect! Rob Lalka is there in DC, giving us regular updates of the goings-on. Click here to check in.

10/19, 1:38a CT: Catholics United hits back after being called an agent of the devil. What did CU do that was so bad? It dared to demand that “pro-life” politicians support life after birth, not just before it.

10/18, 4:21p CT: Check out Faithful Democrats this weekend! We’ll have blogger Rob covering the Values Voter Summit in real time. Last year our blogging resulted in a “Top Five Bizarro World Moments” about the conference; and we suspect it to be just as good this year. Check in tomorrow.

10/18, 2:16p CT: Sam Brownback is dropping out of the Republican race, leaving the GOP field with one self-proclaimed God candidate with anemic poll numbers, and one candidate loathed by the religious right leading the pack.

10/17, 11:59p CT: Catholics United chief Chris Korzen dukes it out with Ann Coulter over Jews and such.

10/17, 8:46a CT: Stephen Colbert announces he’s running for president as “a white, middle-aged, Jesus-trumpeting alternative.” Love that guy.

10/16, 3:46p CT: Via Josh Marshall, Rudy Giuliani has surrounded himself with foreign policy advisors who were too extremist for Bush’s team.

10/15, 8:31p CT: Stan Moody on good vs. evil.

10/15, 1:59p CT: While Barack Obama argues that God cares about his own creation, Albert Mohler hems and haws but ultimately insists the world’s going to end anyway, so we really shouldn’t get bent out of shape. We report; you decide.

10/12, 3:53p CT: The U.S. ranks near the bottom in terms of helping poor countries develop, particularly when it comes to environmental issues. Aren’t we tired of always being at the bottom?

10/12, 3:38p CT: Catholics hit “pro-life” members of Congress who voted against health insurance for kids.

10/12, 2:50p CT: Congrats to Al Gore on the Nobel Peace Prize. He earned it.

10/12, 1:21a CT: Is abortion just as common where it’s illegal as where it’s legal?

10/11, 9:57a CT: Here’s the actual report on evangelicals and progressives from Faith in Public Life and Third Way, called “Come Let Us Reason Together.” A lot of good stuff in there.

10/11, 1:47a CT: Ann Coulter says Christians are “perfected Jews.”

10/11, 1:33a CT: The New York Times on evangelical Democrat John Arthur Eaves, running for governor against the corrupt Haley Barbour in Mississippi.

10/10, 1:36p CT: Harry Reid says Mormon leaders have taken their church down the wrong path.

10/10, 1:42a CT: I don’t like the suggestion that there’s an inherent dichotomy between progressives and evangelicals; there are progressive evangelicals, after all. Nevertheless, the dialogue described by E.J. Dionne here — part of an effort to end the culture wars — is long overdue.

10/9, 1:21p CT: Jesse Lava on churches’ use of the violent video game Halo.

10/9, 12:51p CT: David Kuo thinks Jesus is for universal health care, but doesn’t think he cares whether it happens through government or free-market mechanisms. Here’s the problem: the people who preach universal health care through the market don’t actually care about health care.

10/8, 3:27p CT: Obama visits an evangelical church and says the GOP doesn’t own faith and we can create a kingdom of social justice on earth.

10/7, 9:57p CT: Conservative Christians are feeling ignored in the Republican Party.

10/7, 6:36p CT: Stan Moody on scandals at Oral Roberts.

10/4, 10:58p CT: You’ve got to see this: a gay Republican group runs an ad in Iowa praising Mitt Romney for standing up to conservatives. I guess Giuliani’s their guy.

10/4, 2:28p CT: Americans like Jesus just fine; it’s right-wing Christianity they can’t stand.

10/4, 2:15p CT: Jim Wallis on how Bush lost sight of the children.

10/4, 10:21a CT: A group of conservative Christian leaders would rather back a third-party candidate than a pro-choice Republican (read: Rudy Giuliani).

10/4, 9:21a CT: At least he’s consistent: Archbishop Raymond Burke would deny communion to Giuliani the same way he would have denied it to Kerry.

10/2, 9:50a CT: A letter to Catholic right-winger and Republican apologist Deal Hudson, who is in denial about the Vatican’s opposition to global warming.

10/2, 9:11a CT: Big business at its best: consumers demand decent environmental and working conditions, and the market provides it.

10/1, 3:45p CT: Here’s what’s amazing: the media storyline about religion in politics is now consistently over the debate within the evangelical community. This is progress.

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