What Does Bush Owe the Religious Right?

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Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005   By Karen Tumulty; Matthew Cooper For people of faith, the political landscape has never been entirely comfortable terrain. Politics, they have learned from experience, is a process in which principles get ground up into compromises–or ignored until the next campaign rolls around. This time religious conservatives are counting on things to…

Catholic America

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From National Catholic Register – May 20-26, 2007 issue by the Editors Catholics are poised to take on a historic role in America that can transform the future of our country. If we do the right thing now, we won’t just restore the sanctity of life to its proper place as the fundamental right upon…

Rep. Harris: Church-State Separation a ‘Lie’

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Date: Sunday, August 27, 2006 MIAMI —  U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.” The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected,…

Latino Immigrants Help Keep Catholic Church Dominant U.S. Religion

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New arrivals from Spanish-speaking countries have helped the Catholic Church maintain its status as the dominant religion in the U.S., according to a new Trinity College report slated to be released today. In fact, the report said, without the influx of 9 million Latino Catholics from 1990 to 2008, the denomination would have lost ground….

Many Americans haunted by ghosts, look to astrology

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DALLAS (Reuters Life!) – Although most Americans are Christian and many are devout it hasn’t stopped some members of the flock from believing in astrology, reincarnation or the ability of trees to trap spiritual energy. A poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows a surprising number of U.S. adults claim to…

God expelled from school district

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Last week, the ACLU won an injunction in Florida that officially removes prayer, God, and religious activity from the Santa Rosa County School District. U.S. District Court Judge Casey Rodgers made the ruling after school officials admitted to the religious activity. The ACLU, on behalf of two high school students, sued the district, Pace High School Principal Frank Lay,…

Gorbachev calls on Obama to carry out ‘perestroika’ in the U.S.

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07/ 11/ 2008 MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) – Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said that the Obama administration in the United States needs far-reaching ‘perestroika’ reforms to overcome the financial crisis and restore balance in the world. The term perestroika, meaning restructuring, was used by Gorbachev in the late 1980s to describe a…

Obama promises to ‘remake the world’

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By: Mike Allen July 24, 2008 04:04 PM EST Addressing more than 200,000 elated Europeans massed in Berlin at twilight, presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama  promised Thursday that he would work to unite Christians, Muslims and Jews in a safer, more united world. His 27-minute speech at the gold-topped Victory Column was interrupted by applause…