While most election results came in Tuesday night, it was not until Saturday morning, appropriately, that we discovered where values voters stood.
Did Democrats win with pew voters?
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On hypocrisy
When Mike Jones went to the media with claims that New Life megachurch pastor Ted Haggard had paid him for sex and meth, he said he did so because of Haggard’s hypocrisy. Jones said he felt that Haggard was a hypocrite because he preached against homosexual behavior while also engaging in it.
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California is "moderate," so there
One of the most important words in American political speech is “moderate.” The same thing, of course, is true in the world of religion.
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Pardon the interruption
When I wrote about Linda Greenhouse’s problematic story anticipating the Supreme Court arguments over a federal ban on partial-birth abortions, reader Mattk wondered why we would cover it here at GetReligion:
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On story selection and privacy
I’m not sure if non-journalists understand how much of a news outlet’s work depends on the selection of stories. Here at GetReligion, we tend to focus on problems with the way a given story is treated. Whether it is treated at all is a bigger issue.
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Barabbas, the IRS and church-state law
As we like to note around this here blog, there are issues in church-state law that almost always produce unity among the experts, even among experts on opposite sites of those familiar cultural divides.
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When faith matters on the battlefield
The flurry of election-related news this past week has kept me from noting an excellent piece in The New York Times last week that is absolutely superb and touching in its handling of a sniper situation in Iraq. Reporter C.J. Chivers, with the help of producer Eric Owles, supplemented the article with an equally poignant photo gallery and voiceover.
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Henriques fires back at DiIulio
Pardon me as I do a bit of housecleaning on this rainy day after the election here inside the Beltway.
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Has Colorado Springs' power peaked?
Last week, The Denver Post‘s Eric Gorski gave us the marching orders from Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. Then the Rev. Ted Haggard madness broke open and Dobson’s words to evangelicals were lost in an avalanche of news coverage.
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