2 of 8

• U.S. Republicans in dilemma over 'Religious Right' | Thumped in Tuesday's elections, the Republican Party faces a dilemma as it prepares for 2008: trying to claw back support in the center while keeping loyal conservative Christians happy (Reuters)
  
  
• A new spin on the values vote | This year "values" expanded beyond what politicos call "gays and God" (Ellegn Goodman, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A pounding at the polls | Why conservatives lost (Chuck Colson, Breakpoint)
  
  
• Pro-gun, anti-abortion and fiscally conservative: meet the neo-Dems | The forging of a cohesive domestic reform agenda will be complicated by the fact that several of the new intake of Democrats in the Congress are socially conservative and in favour of policies traditionally associated with the Republicans they ousted (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• GOP coalition fractured by opposition to the war | The coalition that re-elected President Bush and bolstered Republican margins in Congress just two years ago fractured Tuesday under the weight of an unpopular war, economic unease and a series of scandals (USA Today)
  
  

Ballot Measures

• Losses on ballot measures jolt religious | From the country's heartland, voters sent messages that altered America's culture wars and dismayed the religious right — defending abortion rights in South Dakota, endorsing stem cell research in Missouri, and, in a national first, rejecting a same-sex marriage ban in Arizona (Associated Press)
  
  
• By a whisker | In Missouri, a measure supporting stem-cell research passes narrowly. But the fight isn't over (Newsweek)
  
  
• Split state decisions on "culture war" issues | Here are the results of some of the most contested state ballot measures on issues related to religion and public life, as tracked by Stateline.org (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
  
  

Ortega

• God and the global politic | Whether or not the new pro-life Ortega is sincere is an interesting question, but it's irrelevant to a more interesting phenomenon: the resurgence of religion around the globe, including America (Jonah Goldberg, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Nicaraguans' votes are in, and Ortega is back | Daniel Ortega, the onetime cold-war nemesis of the United States, was assured of winning the presidency here and fulfilling his 16-year struggle to regain power (The New York Times)
  
  

Christmas

• Wal-Mart wishes you a Merry Christmas | Wal-Mart will put "Christmas" back into the holidays this year, the retailer plans to announce Thursday (USA Today)
  
  
• Also: Wal-Mart brings Christmas back into stores (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Christmas movie to premiere at Vatican | A movie about Christmas by the company that produced the Oscar-winning "The Lord of the Rings" will make its world premiere at the Vatican this month (Associated Press)
  
  
• Wise men of the churches set out to keep Christ in Christmas | Archbishops fight secularism with call for society to give space to religion in public life (The Times, London)
  
  
• Church challenges festive stamps | The Church of England has challenged the Royal Mail's move to issue festive stamps without a Christian theme (BBC News)
  
  
• Energy row over Christmas lights | Concerns have been raised about the amount of energy used by the Oxford Street Christmas lights (BBC News)
  
  
• Christian charity bans Christmas themed children's gifts | Operation Christmas Child's policy of censoring its own faith was described as political correctness gone mad (Daily Mail, U.K.)
  
  

next page... |  2 of 8

share this page

November (Web-only) 2006, Vol. 50