Comments on: And Then?… http://www.article6blog.com/2008/05/08/and-then/ Religion in the 2008 Presidential Campaign: Commentary by an Evangelical Christian and a Mormon Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:20:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: CarlH http://www.article6blog.com/2008/05/08/and-then/#comment-12589 CarlH Sat, 10 May 2008 23:22:16 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2008/05/08/and-then/#comment-12589 A round up of stories about <a href="http://www.becketfund.org/files/38654.pdf" rel="nofollow">Romney's speech at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty banquet awarding him, along with Mrs. Romney, the Canterbury Medal</a> Thursday night, provides and interesting variety of "reaction" masquerading as news. <em>The Salt Lake Tribune</em> headlines its report, "<a href="http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9214560" rel="nofollow">Romney regrets omitting atheists from speech</a>," while the Becket Fund's own article (with links to several reports on the speech) highlights the fact that the speech actually focused on his view (the title of his speech, in fact) that "<a href="http://www.becketfund.org/index.php/article/777.html?PHPSESSID=a4c6d657905f66ddeeb108d1d5ef9f4c" rel="nofollow">Freedom Requires Religion</a>" NRO's <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjdjY2U4OTUyZTQ0YTA1ODgxNmQ3MGFiODdhMzliMWI=&w=MA==" rel="nofollow">Katherine Jean Lopez</a>, not surprisingly, delivers a laudatory (and nostalgic) tribute. Jeffrey Weiss, in the <em>Dallas Morning News</em>'s Religion Blog, finds <a href="http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/05/six-months-later-mitt-romney-g.html" rel="nofollow">more sophistication</a> in this new Romney speech, and Beliefnet's James Gibson seems to be saying the Romney finally <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/benedictions/2008/05/romney-gets-it-rightthe-second.html" rel="nofollow">gets it right the second time around</a>. The <a href="http://www.becketfund.org/files/a4c2b.pdf" rel="nofollow">introductory remarks of Ann Corkery</a> are a fine tribute to Governor Romney and a worthy summation of why Romney deserved the award for his December speech, noting that amid all the focus on his religion: <blockquote>As it turned out, the governor’s speech of December 6th last year was the high point of the entire primary season. It was one of those moments when a serious thought managed to break through the noise.</blockquote> Read the whole thing. A round up of stories about Romney’s speech at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty banquet awarding him, along with Mrs. Romney, the Canterbury Medal Thursday night, provides and interesting variety of “reaction” masquerading as news. The Salt Lake Tribune headlines its report, “Romney regrets omitting atheists from speech,” while the Becket Fund’s own article (with links to several reports on the speech) highlights the fact that the speech actually focused on his view (the title of his speech, in fact) that “Freedom Requires Religion” NRO’s Katherine Jean Lopez, not surprisingly, delivers a laudatory (and nostalgic) tribute. Jeffrey Weiss, in the Dallas Morning News’s Religion Blog, finds more sophistication in this new Romney speech, and Beliefnet’s James Gibson seems to be saying the Romney finally gets it right the second time around.

The introductory remarks of Ann Corkery are a fine tribute to Governor Romney and a worthy summation of why Romney deserved the award for his December speech, noting that amid all the focus on his religion:

As it turned out, the governor’s speech of December 6th last year was the high point of the entire primary season. It was one of those moments when a serious thought managed to break through the noise.

Read the whole thing.

]]> By: byersa http://www.article6blog.com/2008/05/08/and-then/#comment-12577 byersa Thu, 08 May 2008 16:07:35 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2008/05/08/and-then/#comment-12577 "Christian is as Christian does." How about we adopt this adapted phrase from "Forrest Gump". “Christian is as Christian does.” How about we adopt this adapted phrase from “Forrest Gump”.

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