http://www.article6blog.com "Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by an Evangelical Christian and A Mormon" Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:04:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everybody has an opinion about what went down at the Glenn Beck promoted rally in Washington last weekend.  Was it political?  Or was it religious?  Rally or revival? Well, frankly, it was all of the above. The United States of America has always been a religious nation without a specific religion.   We ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/31/civi-religion-and-how-to-lose/ Beck, King, Rallies... I am entirely unsure how to untangle this mess.  Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech may very well be one of the finest pieces of oratory in our nation's history.  That King and many of his supporters of all colors were motivated by their faith is ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/30/news-of-the-week-romney-and-the-field-presidential-religion-rallies-and-more/ This morning at First Things' "On The Square" blog, editor Joe Carter attempted to use his recent reading of William F. Buckley's "God and Man at Yale" to excoriate the current state of the conservative movement.  Before I launch into my critique, I must first plead guilty to Carter's initial ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/25/crossing-weak-bridges-and-blaming-the-wrong-party/ A Volatile Mix... What mix?  Well for starters, Mitt Romney (God forbid anyone would be allowed to forget he's a Mormon!) is polling very well and came out with an awesome op-ed in the Boston Globe.  Secondly, the religious angle to the Nevada Senate race is getting really ugly. (Pun intended ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/23/mitt-mosques-mormons-obamas-religion-also-rans-and-more/ ...Well, you can fill in your own metaphor because mine is not suitable for public consumption. In the wake of our comments this morning, Hugh Hewitt brought up our old friend Jacob Weisberg of Slate.  You remember good 'ol Jake?  In our review of the left wing religiously based attack on ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/18/slate-lower-than/ As much as Huckabee's back-handed play of the Mormon card in '08 was despicable, it seems like it is always the left that just gets in-your-face nasty on issues like race and religion.  As the Ground Zero Mosque controversy heats up, I guess it was inevitable - and Harry Reid ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/18/how-come-it-is-always-the-lefties-that-just-get-nasty-ugly/ The Left's First Mormon Strike of 2012? ...Could very well be this Salon piece. If you're a resident of one of nine seemingly randomly selected mid-sized (mostly) non-coastal American cities, you're the lucky audience for a new series of commercials advertising... Mormons. They are not quite explicitly ads for ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/16/the-left-makes-trouble-prop-8-backwash-general-presidential-politics-and-stuff-we-find-interesting/ Fortune Telling... The new site on religion, Patheos, ran a series last week on the future of Evangelicalism.  Included therein was a sub-series on the political divides inside Evangelicalism.  Again confirming the wisdom of the strategy recently floated by the nascent Team Romney - you can't court something as non-cohesive as ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/09/monday-odds-and-ends/ Peggy Noonan pens an insightful piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning at the end of a week when our government has crammed enormous amounts of nonsense down our throats against our will: The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/06/weekend-discussion-boiling-points-and-lincolnian-darlness/ ...time and employment have not permitted Lowell or I to review the decision in detail.  To that caveat I will also add that I am neither a lawyer nor a legal scholar, so any review I might do of the ruling will be limited.  However, that said my eye was ... http://www.article6blog.com/2010/08/04/about-that-prop-8-decision/