Romney Does Liberty

Mark Silk | May 13, 2012

It's no wonder that Mitt Romney won plaudits from evangelical bigwigs for his commencement speech at Liberty University on Saturday. It showed he's learned how to talk to them--or at least, learned to listen to the people who know how he's supposed to talk to them.
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One in six voters still think Obama’s a Muslim: Why?

Lauren Markoe | May 10, 2012

WASHINGTON (RNS) After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is wrongly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only 1 in 4 can correctly identify him as Protestant, according to a new poll. By Lauren Markoe.
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Romney Says a Mormon Thing in Public!

Mark Silk | May 7, 2012

You can understand why, while campaigning for president, Mitt Romney keeps clear of Mormon distinctives like visits to LDS temples, quotations from the the Book of Mormon, and references to Mormon history. But once a blue moon, the veil drops and we get a glimpse of his religious world.
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The Godless Gap

Mark Silk | Apr 25, 2012

The latest Gallup poll shows just how much Mitt Romney has to make up for his party's having thrown its lot in with conservative religion. For while very religious voters support him by a 17-point margin, 54-37, the non-religious support President Obama by almost twice as much, 61-30. And those in the middle, the moderately religious, back the president by 14 points.
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Will Romney Have to Discuss His Faith?

Mark Silk | Apr 18, 2012

South Baptist Policy Pooh-Bah Richard Land, whom Princeton should have taught not to pilfer other peoples' prose, had the chutzpah to suggest last week that any media outlet that set about explaining the religion of GOP presidential nominee-presumptive Mitt Romney (i.e. Mormonism) to its readers is ipso facto in the tank for President Obama.
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RNS-ROMNEY-EVANGEL

Sally Morrow | Apr 9, 2012

(Left) Mitt Romney speaking to supporters at a grassroots early voting rally in Mesa, Arizona. (Right) Rick Santorum speaking to supporters at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Requiem for Rick in Wisconsin

Mark Silk | Apr 4, 2012

The dirty little secret of Rick Santorum's 42-38 loss to Mitt Romney in Wisconsin's open primary yesterday is that it would have been a lot worse for him if a bunch of Democrats and Independents hadn't shown up to make mischief. The Dems, at 11 percent of the turnout, voted nearly 2-1 for Santo...
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Romney’s faith: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Mark Silk | Apr 3, 2012

So Mitt Romney's taking questions from a crowd in Howard, Wisc., and this Ron Paul supporter manages to get the mic and raise the issue of racism in Mormonism by pointing to Moses 7:8 ("there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised among all people")--a pas...
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RNS-ROMNEY-BISHOP

Sally Morrow | Mar 28, 2012

Former Governor Mitt Romney speaking at CPAC FL in Orlando, Florida.
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COMMENTARY: We can do better

Tom Ehrich | Mar 27, 2012

(RNS) We have seen ourselves up close and decided we can do better. Pouring a lifetime of earnings into showy living becomes embarrassing. Turning religion into shouting matches and rampant bigotry doesn't pass any gospel sniff test. By Tom Ehrich.
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