Karl Rove made religion sexy for every politician and political strategist. More than any other person in the past generation Karl Rove is responsible for the faith-based politics we see around us. His influence is greater than Robertson or Dobson or anyone on the religious left because he didn\u2019t simply preach a religious gospel to a particular group of people. Instead he preached to politicians about the political power of religious manipulation. And it isn\u2019t just Republicans who heard the call. It was Democrats too – Hillary Clinton heard it and so did John Edwards. Barack Obama certainly heard it.
\nSo every time that we find ourselves debating theology – was Obama\u2019s pastor too much into liberation theology? Is Romney\u2019s Mormon faith sufficiently Christian in orientation? – we should think of Karl and his strategy for turning George W. Bush\u2019s religious conversion into George W. Bush\u2019s number one political asset for wining conservative Christians to his side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karl Rove made religion sexy for every politician and political strategist. More than any other person in the past generation Karl Rove is responsible for the faith-based politics we see around us. His influence is greater than Robertson or Dobson or anyone on the religious left because he didn\u2019t simply preach a religious gospel to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n