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Religion at the 2008 Republican National Convention

This September 5, 2008 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly video report says that the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket will push hard for the votes of evangelical and Catholic social conservatives, Catholics, and social conservatives following McCain’s acceptance of the GOP presidential nomination at the 2008 Republican National Convention.

September 6th, 2008

Religion at the 2008 Democratic National Convention

According to this Religion & Ethics Newsweekly video, religion, in various demonstrations and observances, was prominently on display in Denver as the Democrats wrapped up their convention.

September 6th, 2008





Straitjackets on Campus

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San Jose City College professor June Sheldon was recently fired for expressing an alternative view on the causes of homosexuality and lesbianism. If all it takes to end a teaching career is one brief, evidence-based foray outside the narrow boundaries of politically correctness, freedom will vanish from college campuses.

August 30th, 2008

Saddleback Civil Forum Changes the Face of American Politics

Presidential hopefuls Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) chose an unprecedented venue and format for their first joint appearance in the campaign.  For the first time in American history, the presumptive nominees had a formal, televised conversation with one of the nation’s leading pastors – Dr. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church – at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency.  This non-debate format …

August 17th, 2008

Intolerance: A Christian Virtue

Popular opinion in these early years of the twenty-first century has assailed our minds with “politically correct” sentiment. In keeping with this viewpoint a garbage man ought to be dubbed a “sanitation engineer” and a short person is not short he is “vertically challenged.” Even the term thief might offend so we should adopt the more tolerant “ethically disoriented.” This paradigm bares its true farcical …

August 17th, 2008

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