Knowing that he’s one of his party’s leading advocates for appealing to evangelicals and other religious conservatives, God-o-Meter was somewhat surprised to hear Barack Obama answer a question about one of his regrets by saying he should have done more to stop Congress from intervening in the 2005 Terri Schiavo case. Predictably, Christian Right groups…

Yesterday, John McCain received the endorsement of the prominent San Antonio-based Christian evangelist/Zionist John Hagee, an important get in a state where Mike Huckabee threatens to take major evangelical support in next week’s primary. So why isn’t God-o-Meter’s needle going up? Two high-profile Catholics–scholar and former Republican Party Catholic Outreach Director Deal Hudson and Catholic…

As if God-o-Meter needed more evidence that Democrats are embracing the faith organizing tactics of the GOP, it reads today that the IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ for possibly violating its rules against church politicking by featuring UCCer Barack Obama at its annual meeting last year. Read the IRS letter to the…

A document titled “Obama winning the faith vote” just landed in God-o-Meter’s inbox, courtesy of the Obama camp’s faith outreach director. God-o-Meter wonders whether this might be a case of deceptive labeling. What appeared to be Obama’s early advantage among religious voters in South Carolina, where his biggest margin of victory was among frequent churchgoers,…

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