Politics

Despite Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s win last Thursday in the Iowa caucus, at least two evangelical pastors in that state discovered that supporting him may not be easy. In what Time magazine called a case of “dirty tricks,” the Iowa pastors each received fraudulent letters warning that their churches were risking sanction by the […]

Former Arkansas-based Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee, who only two months ago was garnering a meager 4 percent of the national vote for the Republican nomination for president, is now running neck and neck with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, reported Reuters. Drawing a substantial amount of his support from conservative and evangelical voters,

At the start of the primary season conservative Christians are united in their anxiety over the possibility of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton becoming president. But their harmony ends there. No presidential candidate has managed to rally the complete support of the evangelical voting bloc, which in 2004 comprised 40 percent of the vote for President

Recently Religious conservatives in California launched a referendum to overturn a new law that they believe will promote homosexuality in the schools, reported the San Diego Union-Tribune. Less than a month after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the gay rights Senate Bill 777 into law in October, conservative voters began the expensive initiative, which would require

Gay rights activists have called for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to remove gospel singer and pastor Donnie McClurkin from this weekend’s three-day gospel tour in Charleston, S.C., the Associated Press (AP) reported. “Embrace the Change,” which was intended to unite the African-American faith community in support of Obama’s campaign, has brought on a firestorm

The first-ever values voter presidential debate was held Sept. 17 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but without the four Republican presidential candidate front-runners in attendance. Mitt Romney, John McCain, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani all said they could not attend due to scheduling conflicts, reported the Associated Press (AP). “They will regret the decision,” Janet Folger,

The first-ever values voter presidential debate is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 17 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Thirty of the nation’s most influential Christian-based organizations will ask hard-hitting questions of the presidential candidates. The debate is to be moderated by Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WorldNetDaily. “We’re

President George W. Bush vetoed, for the second time in one year, a bill that would have allowed human embryos to be destroyed for research purposes. In a press conference held Wednesday, Bush said embryonic stem cell research crossed both moral and ethical lines. “If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers—for the

    Don Argue, president of Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash., and a former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, has been appointed to serve on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, the commission is an independent, bipartisan government agency that monitors international