Bob McCarty Writes

Americans are slowly becoming less Christian and more Muslim, according to the just-released update to the American Religious Identification Survey conducted by the Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Specifically, the percentage of Christians in America, which declined in the 1990s from 86.2 percent to 76.7 percent, has now edged down [...]

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Gordon B. Hinckley, the Mormon church’s oldest president at 97, died Sunday. His death comes at an inopportune time for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in that it will likely result in renewed media and blogosphere interest in the former Massachusetts governor’s faith during the week leading up to the Super Tuesday primaries Feb. 5. [...]

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While numerous ballot-casting events are sure to capture the nation’s attention next month, magazine writers are doing their best to make or break some White House bids. In an Elle Magazine article, The H Bomb, it appears writer Judith Pollitt’s mission is to help Democrat Hillary Clinton by painting her as a much-vilified and misunderstood [...]

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While reading a recent Editor & Publisher article, I was struck by the realization that the central figure in the piece, ex-Mormon cartoonist Steve Benson, has no reason to fear for his life after publicly criticizing certain aspects of what Mitt Romney refers to as “the faith of my fathers.” Unlike the Danish cartoonist who [...]

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Sometimes a political parody video is funny even when you’re not sure of the motivation behind it. Such is the case of a recent effort, Mike Huckabee’s Message to Iowa, by Lee Stranahan. Not approved by Mike Huckabee, this video begins with almost 20 seconds of commentary that might be construed as negative by supporters [...]

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Mitt Romney delivered his long-awaited “Faith in America” address this morning, prompting many to wonder whether his effort will be enough to propel him to the Republican presidential nomination. In me, the speech prompted a different reaction. Possibly because I watch too much television, I found myself unable to clear from my mind images of [...]

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Many in the news media want to compare Mitt Romney’s upcoming speech about his faith to the one John F. Kennedy delivered to a group of Houston ministers in 1960. While Kennedy hoped to calm concerns about his Catholic faith, Romney feels he must overcome negative public opinion about his membership in the Church of [...]

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