This isn’t going to make gay rights activists happy.
Barack Obama has selected evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Once again, Obama seems more interested in reaching out rather than reaching inwards towards his base.
While Warren is not of the fire-and-brimstone mold, he did play a prominent role in the [...]

As I’ve stated on this blog before, I wish government would get out of the business of marriage altogether and simply grant people civil unions. That way it’s a legal contract and then anybody can get a marriage in the religious institution of their choice thus creating a very clear separation of church and state. [...]

For the last several years, the Episcopal Church in the United States has been embroiled in internal conflict. Four dioceses and a collection of parishes, upset by the social liberalism of the Episcopal Church, have broken away from the church. Today, those congregations have formerly formed a new church: the Anglican Church in North America
The [...]

The nation has been clamoring for a solution on this and Bush finally decided to address it in this hour of need when healthcare workers are being inhumanely forced to give their patients information about birth control and artificial insemination.
The horror!
But it doesn’t just stop there…as the LA Times reveals:
It also seeks to cover [...]

Well, just when I think I understand Americans something like this comes around and smacks me in the face…
77% of U.S. voters say school children should say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning at school, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Just 13% say they should not, and 9% are undecided.
Sorry, but aren’t [...]

Dan Gilgoff at Politico writes that very little has changed in the evangelical political world:
Evangelicals are still much more concerned with so-called wedge issues than any other demographic group. A Barna Group poll found that 40 percent of evangelicals chose their presidential candidate based on his position on “moral issues,” compared with 9 percent of [...]

Douglas W. Kmiec, a high profile lawyer in the Reagan and Poppy Bush administrations, lays out what he thinks is the solution to this gay marriage mess.
Essentially, get the government out of the business of religious marriage, and instead create civil unions for all that are legally recognized by the government. That way you have [...]

It probably could have been expected, but the reaction on the right side of the blogosphere to Kathleen Parker’s column about the GOP and religious conservatives, which I wrote about yesterday and which Dennis wrote about last night has been quite blistering.
Jonah Goldberg essentially accuses his former collegue of bigotry:
I don’t know what’s more grating, [...]

More delicious crazy…
A Wichita, Kansas preacher says he will not remove a message on his church sign that says President-Elect Barack Obama is a Muslim.
The sign is staying up despite the fact that Obama is a Christian.
At least it’s not in Missouri, but it’s close enough to be embarrassing.

Maybe not in 2012, but be on the lookout for Bobby Jindal in the coming years. He will definitely be a major player.

The three things that Jindal cite are definitely what the GOP hung their hat on, but will they have a higher hurdle if Obama is successful with his decidedly liberal economic agenda?
We shall [...]

I thought California’s Proposition 8 would fail and California would become the first state where the voters themselves actually voiced approval for gay marriage. Obviously, I was wrong.
Turns out the progressive coalition that swept Barack Obama into office is not so progressive, at least not on the issue that many on the left consider the [...]

An interesting turn of events in California…
Kate Kendall, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said 3 million to 4 million ballots remain uncounted statewide. “The fact is depending on the turnout model we are looking at millions of votes yet to be counted,” Kendall said. The race is too close to call. [...]

You knew it had to happen. But what’s surprising is this was created and is being funded by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania.
In fact, their user account on YouTube only has two videos in it, with this being one of them.

Will McCain denounce this tactic?
We shall see…

Remember she of SNL fame?
Well, she apparently thinks that Obama may literally be the devil.
And no, it’s not a joke…
I don’t want a political label, but Obama bears traits that resemble the anti- Christ and I’m scared to death that un- educated people will ignorantly vote him into office.
You see, what bothers me most, [...]

Remember that woman who stood up at a recent McCain rally and claimed Obama is an arab? Thankfully McCain quickly corrected her, but as the following interview that was conducted directly after the event shows, she still believes Obama is an arab.
What’s even more disconcerting is it appears as if she’s sending letters that states [...]

“I also would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god–whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah–that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons. And Lord, I pray that you will guard your [...]

She keeps on stumbling…

Doug breaks it down…
Palin’s statement is particularly interesting mostly because it ends up becoming a fundamental misreading of what Jefferson meant when he said that the First Amendment had erected a “wall of separation” between the political and clerical worlds — namely his assertion, widely accepted during the Founding Era, that true [...]

The other two segments will be on Good Morning America and 20/20.
World News Tonight – Part 1

As mentioned earlier, her lack of understanding of the Bush Doctrine and the “head of state” excuse are extremely troubling. And, in general, it doesn’t really seem like she truly knows about what she’s talking about.
I know that [...]

While Barack Obama has rallied many of the traditionally Democratic voting groups, he’s had some difficulty securing the Jewish vote. Now, there’s a new group trying to solve that problem: Jewish Grandchildren for Obama.
The group’s mission is to get younger, pro-Obama Jewish voters to speak with their older friends and relatives in support of Obama. [...]

A group of right-leaning churches want to officially challenge the ban on political endorsements at the pulpit, and I say go right ahead. And then, when right-leaning Supreme Court overturns the ban, I hope churches are taxed just like any other institution. Fair?
From Wash Post:
CHICAGO — Declaring that clergy have a constitutional right to endorse [...]