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Pastor, city council candidate’s residency challenged

On Tuesday a lawsuit was filed challenging Pastor Mark Hamilton’s candidacy for Spokane City Council. Attorney Frank Malone is disputing Hamilton’s residency, claiming he has not lived inside the Spokane city limits long enough to run for office.
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‘So help me God’ isn’t in official presidential oath

| Jan 19, 2013

When President Obama rests his hand on two historic Bibles to take his second-term oath of office Monday (Jan. 21), he’ll add a phrase not mentioned in the Constitution: “So help me God.” But the Almighty’s role on the Capitol steps is a controversial one.
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Episcopal priest Luis Leon expected to deliver inaugural benediction

| Jan 16, 2013

HuffPo and CNN are reporting that the Presidential Inaugural Committee has selected the longtime rector of the “Church of the Presidents” to give the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration next week. The Cuban-born Rev. Luis Leon, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square near the White House, will take the place of Atlanta pastor Louie Giglio, who bowed out after a 1990s sermon against homosexuality angered gay priests.
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MSNBC host, atheists demand Obama drop God, Bible from inauguration

| Jan 12, 2013

It seems that some liberals — notably the Freedom from Religion Foundation and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell — are upset that the swearing-in ceremony for the president of the United States includes references to religion and the use of a Bible.
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Who should step in to pray at Obama’s inauguration?

| Jan 11, 2013

Atlanta pastor Louie Giglio’s short-lived stint as one of two people chosen to pray at President Obama’s upcoming inauguration has opened debate about who could step in and offer the benediction. Various groups have offered their suggestions, from GLAAD to Huffington Post to ThinkProgress, which unearthed the damning mid-1990s sermon against homosexuality that prompted Giglio to withdraw. (ThinkProgress’ list is especially interesting)
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Secession theology runs deep in American religious, political history

| Dec 1, 2012

Corruption has gone too far. The righteous must break away. Hope now rests with a holy remnant that will honor foundational texts. The message sounds familiar.
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2012 post election wrap up - how did God vote?

| Nov 26, 2012

Whew... the election is finally over, but what does it all mean? Is God happy? Disappointed? Angry? Indifferent? And how did religion play a role in the 2012 elections, if any?
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This election dangerous questions arose about exploiting the poor, dehumanizing the alien

| Nov 15, 2012

I waited for a week before writing anything on the election because I wanted to see how durable my first impressions of the outcome would be. My first impressions turned out to be pretty durable; I am still happy with the outcome for two reasons. First, it represents our best chance to plot a stable and moderate course toward reducing the deficit by sharing the burden across the entire spectrum of American people and not simply forcing the poor to pay for the whole thing.
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A post-election reflection for red, blue and purple people

| Nov 12, 2012

As the presidential election results became clear on the evening of Nov. 6, one commentator said that we have become “the Disunited States of America.” It has been 154 years since Abraham Lincoln, in an acceptance speech for his nomination as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, referenced the words of Jesus:  “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
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Are the results of Tuesday’s elections God’s judgment on America?

| Nov 10, 2012

After Tuesday's elections, WND editor and CEO Joseph Farah was quite clear — the results are God's judgment on America. Farah wrote that Obama's re-election represents, at least to him, "God’s judgment on a people who have turned away from Him and His ways and from everything for which our founders sacrificed their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor."
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BRIEF: WA United for Marriage declares victory

| Nov 7, 2012

State election offices aren't expected to release anymore numbers until early evening, but Washington United for Marriage is declaring victory on Referendum 74. “This is a clear win,” said WUM campaign manager Zach Silk in a press release.
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