1/4/08 Just as the Republican caucuses began on Thursday at 6:30 p.m., a small group of women and children joined hands in the middle of the ballroom at Mike Huckabee’s headquarters here and began to pray for his election.

1/4/08 Huckabee Described As 'Christian Socialist'

1/4/08 Mike Huckabee on Thursday condemned anonymous letters that threaten an investigation into the tax-exempt status of churches led by pastors who support Huckabee’s presidential campaign.

1/3/08 for the second time in two weeks, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has aired a commercial in which a Christian symbol appears in the background. In the campaign ad, Huckabee is addressing members of the Iowa Christian Alliance, an organization whose symbol is the ichthys, which appears on a banner shown prominently at the open and close of the 30-second spot.

12/31/07 Mike Huckabee, a Republican relying on support from religious conservatives in Thursday's hard-fought presidential caucuses, on Sunday stood by a decade-old comment in which he said, "I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."

12/31/07 Dozens of black conservative leaders nationwide are expressing support for Republican White external-linkHouseexternal-link contender Mike Huckabee, who they believe best represents the values of American conservatives.

12/29/07 Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential candidate, told Cybercast News Service that he supports tuition tax credits for parents who send their children to private schools and that public schools ought to teach children, as per the Declaration of Independence, that there is a God and that our rights come from Him.

12/27/07 Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's Iowa campaign manager says although mainstream media has been eagerly reporting on the former Arkansas Governor's extensive support from Iowa home schoolers, the media still holds misconceptions about the burgeoning education movement.

12/25/07 Huckabee Defends Jesus as Point of Christmas

12/25/07 Thomas Glessner, founder and president of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), which provides legal services to Pregnancy Resource Centers, said Huckabee is someone "who has the moral convictions and commitment to work to end the cultural nightmare of abortion."

12/25/07 Huckabee has refuted that he supports homosexual civil unions. He has unequivocally affirmed the traditional definition of marriage of one man one woman for life. But he noted he supports states rights to pass civil union laws.

12/24/07 Huckabee preaches at Hagee's church

12/24/07 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee risked his standing with Catholic voters on Sunday by courting his evangelical base at the church of a controversial preacher accused of disparaging Catholics.

12/23/07 Huckabee, said Keene, a Romney supporter, "is not a conservative who is an evangelical; he's an evangelical populist. It's not the evangelical part that conservatives worry about. It's the populism. It's his economic views."

12/20/07 Huckabee Now a Candidate With Something to Lose

12/20/07 When Huckabee on Nov. 9 announced the Southern Baptist leaders supporting him, Pressler was not on the list; on Dec. 7, Pressler endorsed Thompson. Pressler is known to be concerned that Huckabee plays to the establishment and would be subservient to the State Department and the New York Times.

12/19/07 Media attacks Huckabee for 'subliminal messages' in ad

12/19/07 Minuteman founder denies he's reconsidering endorsement of Huckabee

12/18/07 Home-School Ties Aided Huckabee's Iowa Rise and Home-schoolers rally to Huckabee.

12/15/07 "I'm as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I'm stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It's a theocratic war. And I don't know if anybody fully understands that. I'm the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well."

12/15/07 Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq.

12/15/07 Huckabee Is Not Alone in Ignorance on Mormonism . Huckabee Apologizes for Mormon Comment

12/13/07 Huckabee Refuses to Take Back AIDS, Homosexuality Remarks

12/13/07 Huckabee defends women's rights record

12/13/07 Best-selling author says Huckabee's tough talk on immigration doesn't match his record

12/12/07 Perkins says media attack on Huckabee a 'reverse religious test'

12/12/07 Huckabee support hinges on churches

12/7/07 As in his decision not to discuss his views on the creation of the earth, Huckabee passed on a chance Thursday night explain his views on whether women should be able to serve in pastoral leadership roles. "It's so irrelevant to being president that I wouldn't even get into that," Huckabee said

12/6/07 Pulpit Was the Springboard for Huckabee's Rise

12/5/07 Huckabee on Rapist and Murderer

12/5/07 Huckabee Courts Iowa Evangelicals: Former Southern Baptist Preacher Amassing Christian Evangelical Support in Iowa

12/5/07 A group that opposes interaction between religion and government Tuesday accused Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. of violating federal tax law by using the school's resources to endorse Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. The group also asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate.

12/5/07 Fiscal Conservative 'Suspicious' of Booming Huckabee

11/29/07 "It's [the Bible] the Word of revelation to us from God Himself," Huckabee said.

11/29/07 Right Wing News interview with Huckabee.

11/29/07 Copeland ministries has come out in support of Huckabee even though as the Christian Post reports the ministry is under senate probe.

11/29/07 Mike Huckabee is the only presidential candidate who has vocally expressed his opposition to the expansion of gambling, and he believes gambling is a big issue in Iowa and that conservative Republicans will have a big impact on the primary. One Voice Iowa co-director Stacey Cargill asks, "If Rudy Giuliani wants to be the crime-fighting candidate, why is he partnering with a large and growing gambling empire?"

11/28/07 In his new TV ad, the former Arkansas governor courts Iowa’s large conservative voting base by declaring that “faith doesn’t just influence me, it really defines me.”

11/08/07 Dr. Don Wildmon, founder and chairman of the Mississippi-based American Family Association, has given his personal endorsement to Huckabee, who he says understands the needs of the United States and has the ability to lead the country in meeting those needs.

10/16/07 The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated. That was the ultimate commandment of Jesus.

Mitt Romney

Former Mass Governer, Mormon

Official website. Washington Post background article.

2/7/08 Romney Concedes Race at Conservative Convention

1/30/08 Romney Campaign Disputes Focus Action Voter Guide

1/26/08 World's Leading Internet Evangelist Blasts Dobson and 'Focus on the Family' for Their Misleading Soft-Sell of Cult Member Romney

1/26/08 Mormonism in evangelical voter guide

1/17/08 Right To Life Leaders Battle Over Romney

1/8/08 Romney Health Plan Linked to Abortion, Critics Claim

1/6/08 Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race, gaining most of Wyoming's delegates at stake in GOP caucuses on Saturday.

1/6/08 Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share nearly all the conservative commitments so beloved of the evangelicals who wield disproportionate influence in primary elections.

1/3/08 Mormons support Romney as he supports Mormon businesses

12/31/07 A prominent pro-family leader is urging fellow conservatives to withdraw their support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over his recent expressed support for a “sexual orientation” non-discrimination law.

12/30/07 Many South Carolina Republicans got a bogus holiday greeting card this week, purported to be from White House hopeful Mitt Romney, that cites some controversial passages of the Book of Mormon.

12/27/07 However, not all gay marriage opponents remember it that way. Rather, they say it was Romney who actually got gay marriage started in the state, reacting before the legislature acted and even telling local justices of the peace (JPs) to resign if they didn't think they could officiate at ceremonies involving homosexual couples.

12/28/07 Pastor Joel Osteen speaks out on Mormonism [and Mitt Romney] "Mitt Romney has said that he believes in Christ as his Savior, and that's what I believe. I'm not the one to judge the little details of [Romney's religion], so I believe [Mormons are Christians] and Mitt Romney seems like a man of character and integrity to me and I don't think anything would stop me from voting for him if that's what I felt like."

12/28/07 A grassroots conservative activist is calling on pro-family leaders who have endorsed Mitt Romney for president to withdraw their support over Romney's endorsement of "sexual orientation" non-discrimination laws at the state level.

12/23/07 "Governor Huckabee's record is more liberal than our nation needs right now," the former Massachusetts governor said in Iowa last week, seeking to link his GOP presidential rival to the former Democratic president who is loathed by many Republican loyalists.

12/21/07 would allow illegal aliens to apply for permanent residency but would also require them to go back home after a "set period" of time, he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" last Sunday.

12/18/07 Mitt Romney suggested there was no way a landscaping company that worked for him could have known its employees were illegal aliens even though the federal government has an employer verification system that any employer in America, on a voluntary basis, can use for free.

12/18/07 Christian Angst Over a Romney Presidency

12/17/07 Romney Would Ban Weapons of 'Extraordinary Lethality'

12/14/07 Mike Huckabee has prompted angry denunciations of religious bigotry by rival Mitt Romney as well as an official retort from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for speculating in a New York Times Magazine interview this weekend that Mormons believe Jesus and Satan were brothers.

12/13/07 Mitt Romney did an outstanding job of defining the role religion should play in American public life in his December 6 “Faith in America” speech. He decisively rejected an extreme governmental secularism that seeks to exclude God completely from public discourse.

12/12/07 [Romney] recently said that he opposes abortion but would support embryonic stem cell research in some cases. Some Christian conservatives called Romney's position "inconsistent" and said it could hurt him among pro-life voters.

12/12/07 Pro-family group quips that Romney is a 'bad Mormon'

12/07/07 in a speech this morning at the George H. W. Bush Library, Mitt Romney tried to put voters' fears to rest. He declared that the authority of the Latter-Day Saints leadership was restricted to church matters. He promised that he would "put no doctrine of any church above the plain duties of the office and the sovereign authority of the law."

12/11/07 National Review endorses Romney for President.

12/7/07 Romney's Risky Faith Gambit

12/7/07 What Evangelicals Heard in Romney's 'Faith in America' Speech

12/6/07 Romney vows Mormon church would not run White House

12/6/07 Mitt Romney asked the nation on Thursday not to reject his presidential candidacy because of his religion, assuring evangelical Christians and other religious voters that his values matched theirs in a speech that used the word “Mormon” only once.

12/6/07 Excerpts From Romney Religion Speech

12/5/07 Romney's Mormonism Not a Big Problem, Christian Leaders Say

11/29/07 Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Mormon, drew applause when he said "the Bible is the Word of God, absolutely."

11/29/07 Romney does not favor punishing women who have abortions but does favor punishing abortionists, perhaps even with incarceration

11/21/07 Gov. Romney is new to the pro-life movement and his campaign clearly has a few things to learn about it. First, they should understand that despite their campaign's every effort, groups like the National Right to Life Committee's PAC (NLRC-PAC) cannot be bought. NLRC-PAC is supporting Fred Thompson because of Fred's 100% pro-life voting record.

11/21/07 Dr. Richard Land, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm, explained in a statement Tuesday that “defending” Romney’s right to run for president is “very different” than endorsing the former governor.

10/26/07 Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been embraced in a most unlikely place: at Bob Jones University, the influential Christian college that teaches that his Mormon church is a cult.

9/20/07 Mitt Romney is launching a radio ad touting the strength of his opposition to gay marriage.

9/13/07 One in four people in the U.S. said in a recent poll that they would be less likely to support a presidential candidate who is Mormon, an ominous sign for Republican contender Mitt Romney.

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Fred Thompson

Previous Senator Tennessee,

Official website. Washington Post background article.

1/23/08 Thompson Campaign Ends

1/14/08 Jesusland Author Endorses Fred Thompson

1/11/08 Thompson assailing Huckabee's economic, foreign policy credentials

1/4/08 Perspectives [James Lambert]: It's Thompson for me

1/3/08 Thompson Camp Denies Pullout from Campaign

12/25/07 The National Right to Life Committee’s announcement at the National Press Club Tuesday is expected to give Thompson’s campaign a much needed boost.

12/25/07 Speaking on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," the former Tennessee senator said that the decision regarding right-to-life cases should ultimately belong to families.

12/7/07 Thompson camp rips Huckabee for joke on Imus show

11/29/07 Fred Thompson has earned a West Virginians for Life endorsement. However, One News Now reports Cliff Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, contends Thompson's campaign was "very deceptive" about his work for the pro-abortion group.

11/6/07 Fred Thompson said Sunday he believes that life begins at conception, but he would not support a federal constitutional amendment banning abortions. The former Tennessee senator told Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press, "I think people ought to be free at state and local levels to make decisions that even Fred Thompson disagrees with."

9/24/07 James Dobson, one of the nation's most politically influential evangelical Christians, made it clear in a message to friends this week he will not support Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson.

9/13/07 Prominent evangelical leaders who spent the summer hoping Fred Thompson would emerge as their favored Republican presidential contender are having doubts as he begins his long-teased campaign.

Rudi Giuliani

Previous mayor of NY, abortion rights supporter, homosexual union supporter

Official website. Washington Post background article.

1/31/08 Giuliani and Edwards quit White House race

1/17/08 Christian political pundit: Giuliani gambles, loses on primary strategy

1/13/08 Giuliani turns to prayer in Florida

1/11/08 The Associated Press reported Friday that top Giuliani campaign staffers have foregone paychecks for the month of January to allow the campaign to focus its limited financial resources toward a badly needed victory in the Florida caucus on Jan. 29

12/12/07 Expert says Giuliani has entered 'McCain territory' on immigration

11/29/07 "I don't believe every single thing in the literal sense of Jonah being in the belly of the whale," he [Guiliani] added.

11/29/07 Perkins, president of Family Research Council (FRC), is expressing alarm at what he calls "a chorus of voices" who are trying to portray Rudy Giuliani as acceptable to the pro-life community by claiming he would appoint "strict constructionist" judges to the federal bench.

11/08/07 Endorsed by Pat Robertson. Asked whether ensuring judiciary appointments were more important to him than backing a candidate who shares his pro-life views, Robertson said it doesn’t matter if a candidate is pro-abortion.

10/6/07 Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke, who made headlines last presidential season by saying he'd refuse Holy Communion to John Kerry, has his eye on Rudy Giuliani this year. Giuliani's response: "Archbishops have a right to their opinion." Giuliani responded in this NY Times article.

10/1/07 "I believe in God. I pray to God, and I pray to Jesus for guidance, help,” Giuliani said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network. “I have very, very strong views on religion that come about from having wanted to be a priest when I was younger, having studied theology for four years in college.”

Democrats

Hillary Clinton

Senator NY

Official website. Washington Post background article.

2/4/08 Bill Clinton courts black churchgoers

1/25/08 Top Earmark-er Clinton Grants $303,000 to 'Gay' Lobby Group

1/23/08 Hillary Clinton on Abortion

1/9/08 Rove: Obama's 'Smarmy, Prissy' Slap Helped Clinton

1/6/08 Clinton argues she is more pro-abortion than Obama

12/13/07 The problem is not that Rick and Kay Warren invited Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to be the keynote speaker at their third annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church at Saddleback Church. The problem is that Rick Warren never engaged the Senator on the points where many evangelicals are at odds with her agenda.

12/12/07 Hillary's Spiritual Formation and What Hillary Believes.

12/5/07 A volunteer Iowa county coordinator for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign has resigned after forwarding a chain e-mail that suggests Barack Obama is a Muslim who wants to destroy the United States by being elected to its highest office. Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ.

12/5/07 Hillary Rodham Clinton's support from South Carolina's black religious leaders may not be quite as extensive as her campaign suggests.

12/3/07 Why Warren embraces Hillary

11/21/07 Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) will join Rick Warren at his California church this month for an AIDS conference. More here.

11/02/07 Senator Hillary Clinton has blasted conservative Christian politicians for wearing their faith on their sleeve (she didn’t name names). On one occasion, this condemnation elicited screaming cheers from outraged liberals in the audience.

10/8/07 Hilary Clinton said last week that if elected she would sign executive order reversing President Bush's restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research

Barack Obama

Senator Illinois, United Church of Christ Member

Official website. Washington Post background article.

2/4/08 MoveOn.Org Makes Its First-Ever Primary Endorsement

1/29/08 Obama speaks to Jewish voters on Israel

1/29/08 Obama censured for efforts to tout himself as a Christian

1/25/08 Obama plays defence on faith issue

1/17/08 Obama Criticizes His Church's Honoring of 'Anti-Semitic' Farrakhan

1/15/08 Obama's church congregation furious at 'racism' accusations

1/14/08 Obama's 'unashamedly black' church escapes media scrutiny

1/13/08 Obama's Abortion Stance Hurts Blacks, Say Pro-Life Experts

1/11/08 Kerry backs Obama campaign

1/11/08 Pro-Family Groups Blast Obama as 'Extremely Liberal'

1/9/08 Obama Is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever

1/9/08 Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam

1/9/08 Obama's church: More about Africa than God?

1/9/08 Pro-Life Activists Accept Senator Obama's Offer to Meet with Them to Discuss Abortion

1/7/08 Pro-Life Activists Shut Down Senator Obama Rally

1/6/08 Clinton argues she is more pro-abortion than Obama

1/3/08 Report Card Grades GOP Presidential Candidates on Family-Value Claims

12/26/07 Two black South Carolina ministers listed by Barack Obama's campaign as endorsing his White House bid say they did no such thing, and at least two others affirmed their support only after being contacted by campaign workers when questions were raised about their endorsements.

12/20/07 She quoted one of her favorite passages in Scripture – where it says in the Epistle of James that "faith without works is dead." She spoke of "the sustaining power of prayer," and how her own faith journey is approaching the half-century mark. She applauded the work of churches in ministering to the sick, as Jesus did.

12/19/07 Obama Gains Ground with Black Christian Leaders

10/25/07 in response to an uproar from gay activists, Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Wednesday added a gay minister to the lineup for its weekend gospel tour. However, One News Now reports that Obama 'strongly disagrees' with gospel singer on homosexuality.

10/16/07 Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, has made religion a signature part of his campaign through his own public appearances in places where Democrats rarely venture, and a faith-based voter mobilization.

10/8/07 Faith, he said, is "what propels me to do what I do and when I am down it's what lifts me up." The Democratic presidential candidate said God "is with us and he wants us to do the right thing," including breaking down the divisions between Democrats and Republicans and among religions.

9/7/07 a June 23 appearance by Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama at the General Synod of the United Church of Christ is now the subject of a formal complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service on August 2.