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• Today’s Reading List - August 16, 2007

  Published: August 16, 2007, 9:12 am

  Tags: Reading List, Religious Bigotry

  We were honestly struggling to find anything to post today because of a dearth of material related to Romney and The Question.  That's not a bad thing, in our minds; if no one's talking about Mitt Romney's faith, that's okay with us.  At the very end of the day Wednesday, however, I did find one item that could, with

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• Michael Kinsley: The Secularist Intellectual As Religious Bigot

  Published: September 9, 2007, 10:04 pm

  Tags: Religious Bigotry

  which has become, whether religious Democrats like it or not, the party where secularists feel most at home.  Can anyone deny that?  The most remarkable part of Kinsley's piece is his apparent belief that candidates ought to be grilled publicly on why they believe in their religion: Above all, we need to see some struggle.

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• Nawlins update

  Published: September 13, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Political Expediency, Bobby Jindal, Black Politics, Black Political Corruption, Gov Kathleen Blanco, Mose Jefferson, Cheryl Gray, Jalila Jefferson Bullock, Louisiana Politics, Black Voters, William Jefferson, Ray Nagin, New Orleans Katrina, Religious Bigotry, Karen Car

  Louisiana has a Gubernatorial election this year and the massively incompetent Governor, Kathleen Blanco-D Louisiana, will not be running. Speculation centered on chocolate city Mayor Ray Nagin to run in her stead, but, he recently announced, after flirting with a run on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” that he would not be a

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• Huckabee, Romney, and The Question

  Published: November 1, 2007, 5:44 pm

  Tags: Religious Bigotry, Electability

  to him:  Can a deeply religious person like Huckabee be elected president?  Imagine further that the MSM and others press Huckabee on particulars of his own faith– what does he believe about creationism vs. evolution, the Rapture, the eternal fate of non-Christians, and so forth?  How would Huckabee supporters react to

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• Ramesh Ponnuru, Pragmatism, and Principle

  Published: November 4, 2007, 12:52 am

  Tags: Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, Electability, Issues

  — especially religious conservative like Ponnuru– start to accept such morally lame reasoning, we open the door to the same reasoning being used against other religious candidates. Let's play my favorite religious-bias game with the Ponnuru pull-quote above:  Imagine we are in a time when anti-Catholic or even

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• Push Polling — The Latest

  Published: November 17, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Political Strategy, Questions, Religious Bigotry, Candidate Qualifications

  Mitt Romney, anti-Mormon,

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• The Romney Push-Polling Scandal: What People Need to Understand About Western Wats

  Published: November 17, 2007, 2:58 pm

  Tags: Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry

  Romney, anti-Mormon, bigotry, Western Wats, Huckabee, Garry South, Democrat, Democrat-left, 527 organization

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• Push Polling - Anything New?

  Published: November 18, 2007, 9:39 am

  Tags: Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, Candidate Qualifications, Electability, News Media Bias

  Really there isn't, but a few more stories have appeared and we want to keep our research complete. The Huffington Post tried to pass on the Romney did it ridiculousness, thus pointing a finger at a lefty 527.  Larry Kudlow discusses his interview with Romney on Friday.  This is essentially the same stuff he addressed on Hewitt, but

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• Byron York and Romney on “The Christian Issue”

  Published: November 19, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, Understanding Religion

  Byron York, who now seems to be realizing that Romney could well be the GOP nominee, writes at some length about The Speech.  There's much to say about York's column, but one comment by Romney is probably the most important.  York focuses (wrongly, I believe) on the now-tired question of whether Mormons are Christians, and

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• Special Thanksgiving Weekend Edition: Huckabee, Romney and Religious Identity Politics; Push Polling; And More

  Published: November 23, 2007, 3:27 pm

  Tags: Electability, Reading List, Religious Bigotry

  face? The press has wanted a religious smackdown out of this thing since the beginning. Romney has steadfastly refused to give it to them. Unable to get the story they want from the Mormon angle, the press is now hounding it from the Evangelical angle and Huckabee seems more than willing to give it to them. If the Republican party fractures on

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• Peggy Noonan on The Question

  Published: November 24, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Electability, Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry

  Just yesterday Peggy Noonan weighed in on The Question. I think she is pitch-perfect. Some excerpts: [W]e have come to an odd pass regarding candidates and their faith. It’s not as if faith is unimportant, it’s always important. But we are asking our political figures–mere flawed politicians–to put forward and talk

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• The Romneys and Their “Perfection Problem”

  Published: November 25, 2007, 1:45 am

  Tags: Electability, Religious Bigotry

  attacks on Romney’s religious faith will come from the left, and from the MSM (but I repeat myself). What Ms. Fiore’s piece, and all the “Stepford” slams, boil down to is that Romney is just too perfect Mormon. Religious candidates and others with high personal standards of behavior all have a stake in this. Our

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• More on Mainstream Media Anti-Religious Bigotry

  Published: November 27, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Religious Bigotry

  of the issues: “Anti-Religious Bigotry on Display in the Mainstream Media.” I think Mike Huckabee supporters should note what Justin Taylor reports here: The Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi is more blunt and crude (warning: profanity in article). Here are a few of his descriptions of Huckabee as it relates to his faith:

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• Weekend Bulletin: The Speech Is Coming - “Faith In America”

  Published: December 2, 2007, 7:28 pm

  Tags: Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, Understanding Religion

  Romney to share his views on religious liberty, the grand tradition religious tolerance has played in the progress of our nation and how the governor's own faith would inform his Presidency if he were elected. Governor Romney understands that faith is an important issue to many Americans, and he personally feels this moment is the right

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• Considering The Speech (UPDATED II)

  Published: December 4, 2007, 9:42 am

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Electability, Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, The Speech, Understanding Religion

  he was not trying to combat religious bigotry, despite some recent leafleting and phone calls criticizing his faith. “I believe that the great majority of Americans select their candidates based upon their character, their heart, their vision for America, and I think as people look at me, they will see a guy who loves his wife, who’s

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