{"id":294,"date":"2010-11-03T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/election-day-2010-faith-news-roundup.html"},"modified":"2010-11-03T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T11:22:00","slug":"election-day-2010-faith-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/election-day-2010-faith-news-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"Election Day 2010: Faith News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans have the majority again in the U.S. House of Representatives &#8212; poising&nbsp;Rep. John Boehner to become&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/amid-electoral-sea-change-mr-speaker.html\">its fifth-ever Catholic speaker&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;Rep. Eric Cantor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/11\/03\/2741572\/gop-sweep-makes-one-jew-a-star-unseats-and-disempowers-many-others#When:10:09:00Z\">to become its first-ever Jewish majority leader&nbsp;<\/a>&#8212; but the U.S. Senate has kept its Democrat majority. Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/03\/AR2010110302556.html\">South Carolina&#8217;s new&nbsp;governor is Indian American Sikh-turned-Methodist&nbsp;Nikki Haley<\/a>&nbsp;(the state&#8217;s first non-white, non-male governor),&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/colorado-voters-defeat-personhood.html\">Colorado voters&nbsp;defeated a pro-life amendment that&nbsp;would have&nbsp;defined an embryo as a person<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctpolitics\/2010\/11\/3_justices_boot.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+christianitytoday\/ctpolitics+(Christianity+Today+Politics+Blog)\">Iowa voters ousted three state Supreme Court justices who approved same-sex marriage<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/politics\/3668\/election_update:_oklahoma_bans_shari'ah_law\/\">Shariah law is officially banned in Oklahoma&#8217;s courts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Busy night.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionlink.com\/topic_101103.php\">this ReligionLink edition<\/a> and these links for more&nbsp;faith-related&nbsp;coverage of the mid-term elections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/morning-briefing-368\">Morning briefing <\/a>(National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnsblog\/wednesdays_religion_news_roundup2\/#When:12:22:00Z\">Wednesday&#8217;s religion news roundup<\/a> (Religion News Service)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/RNS-Religion-politics-getting-too-cozy-Carter-warns.aspx\">Religion, politics getting too cozy, Carter warns <\/a>(Religion News Service)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2010\/11\/election-tea-party-republican-christian\/1?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">Did you &#8220;vote your faith&#8221; in 2010 election?<\/a> (USA Today)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/11\/03\/2741535\/op-ed-america-needs-a-civility-campaign#When:11:26:00Z\">American needs a civility campaign <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/evangelical.leader.urges.prayer.after.us.election.results\/27006.htm\">Evangelical leader urges prayer after U.S. midterms <\/a>(Christian Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans have the majority again in the U.S. House of Representatives &#8212; poising&nbsp;Rep. John Boehner to become&nbsp;its fifth-ever Catholic speaker&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rep. Eric Cantor to become its first-ever Jewish majority leader&nbsp;&#8212; but the U.S. Senate has kept its Democrat majority. Meanwhile, South Carolina&#8217;s new&nbsp;governor is Indian American Sikh-turned-Methodist&nbsp;Nikki Haley&nbsp;(the state&#8217;s first non-white, non-male governor),&nbsp;Colorado voters&nbsp;defeated a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Election Day 2010: Faith News Roundup - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/11\/election-day-2010-faith-news-roundup.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election Day 2010: Faith News Roundup - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Republicans have the majority again in the U.S. House of Representatives &#8212; poising&nbsp;Rep. 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