Why the Focus on Religion?

Mark Levin says

“Mike Huckabee is now becoming a very divisive figure in the Republican party. It’s not his faith or his Merry Christmas commercial that many conservatives question (I certainly don’t), but it’s his record as governor and his

Here we go again, with the nonsense about making religion, a public issue incidental to an election this time from John over at Powerline:

I’m getting really tired of the role that religion is playing in this year’s election campaign.

Noted over at LGF:

Here’s one of those emails that’s so insane I suspected it was a hoax; but the IP address traces to the Arabian peninsula state of Oman, so it’s probably the real deal. Our admirer found us

There’s an interesting discussion going on and just now a cross blog discussion about religion and politics.  The interested parties I’ve noticed thus far are Cassandra over at Villainous Company, and Bruce McQuain over at Q&O. In turn, the discussion

Fred08 has issued the following apology:

From Karen Hanretty, Deputy Communications Director:

In light of Mike Huckabee’s heartfelt apology to Mitt Romney for making reference to Romney’s religion in the New York Times Magazine, we at the Thompson Campaign would

The Religion of peace rides yet again… Just down the road from me here…. Lots of coverage available to me, but this is from the Toronto Star:

A 16-year-old girl is dead and her father has been charged with murder

John Hawkins:

For whatever reason, more than a few Liberals who aren’t very religious have a bizarre, paranoid view of Christians that is so out of touch with reality that they make the Truthers look sane. Just to name one

We’ve had a bit of Email discussion, more or less centered on my most recent post about Mitt Romney. Specifically, the topic ends up being whether not there is a religious test for high office. As a basis for

I don’t know if there is a god or if he exists what he wants.   Nobody does.  Yet that does not preclude bigots like Fred Phelps and Mike Huckabee from proclaiming they know what God wants,  Linda S.  Caillouet,  Arkansas

Melissa, guesting over at Right Wing News:

Can identity politics get any more ridiculous? In trying to establish cred with minorities, civil rights leader Andrew Young says what could be nominated for the most ridiculous quote this electoral season:

In

For reasons beyond realm of understanding,  Bill Schneider of the Clinton News Network, a.k.a. CNN, attempted to trot out Ted Sorensen to hold former President Jack Kennedy as some sort of gold standard for religion.

Speaking to CNN Senior

As promised, I’ve had the opportunity to look over the Romney “I have a Religion” speech.

As such things go, it wasn’t bad.  Romney  demonstrated a better public speaking ability than I thought he had.  That was my first surprise. 

Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

Ruffini tells us the Ronmey ‘Religion” speech (I don’t think it’ll be focused on that quite as much as is being billed)  is going to be on this morning at 10:30 EST.

I’ll hold off on commenting until I get

Jon Martin at the Politico:

Halperin has the big news: Mitt Romney will take to to the Bush Library in College Station, Texas, on Thursday to give a long-anticipated, much-debated speech about his Mormon faith and the role of