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Posted at 1:31pm on May 8, 2008 Senator Chuck Grassley's attack on religious liberty

"Have you now, or have you ever been, a preacher of the prosperity gospel?"

By Feddie

Senator Chuck Grassley is apparently not a big fan of those who preach some variant of the "prosperity gospel." In fact, this form of ministry troubles Grassley so much that this past winter he decided to use his considerable power as the "former chairman and now Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee" to launch a full-blown investigation into the operational affairs of six "prosperity-gospel" ministries: Without Walls International Church; World Healing Center Church, Inc./Benny Hinn Ministries; Joyce Meyer Ministries; World Changers Church International; Kenneth Copeland Ministries; and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.

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Posted at 12:01pm on Jan. 17, 2008 Strangers in a Strange Land

The GOP Commentariat Discovers Southern Evangelicals

By Leon H Wolf

Before the election season began in earnest, the conventional wisdom was that this election would illustrate that the Republican base really doesn't like Mormons. Instead, it turns out that this election has taught us that the Republican vanguard really doesn't like Southern Evangelicals. For proof of this fact, one only need examine the hysterical reaction to Mike Huckabee's comments on the constitution:

[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Some Republican commentators have become so unglued by the prospect of a Presidential candidate daring to suggest that he allows his faith in God (and the principles which, in his own mind, flow from that faith) to inform his political desires, that they have pronounced that Mike Huckabee is a man to be feared every bit as much as a man who thinks that the Taliban should be given the keys to this country.

This is, of course, rubbish, and the criticism thus expressed says much more about Mike Huckabee's critics than the above-quoted unfortunate turn of phrase says about Huckabee.

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