“Mitt’s Muffled Soul”
See a Feb. 4, 2012, New York Times op-ed column by Frank Bruni about the impact of Mitt Romney’s religion on his campaign.
See a Feb. 4, 2012, New York Times op-ed column by Frank Bruni about the impact of Mitt Romney’s religion on his campaign.
Read a Feb. 6, 2012, story in The New Republic by religious studies scholar Randall Balmer about the impact of Mitt Romney’s religion on his campaign.
Read a Feb. 8, 2012, article in The New Republic on the potential impact of Mitt Romney’s religion on his politics.
A December 2011 national survey conducted for The Salt Lake Tribune found that about one in four evangelicals would be uncomfortable voting for a Mormon, even though they and Mormons think alike on many social issues.
The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, based at Georgetown University, has a website that tracked the religious rhetoric of leading candidates for the 2012 presidential election.
Romney and Obama discuss their faith in separate interviews in the summer 2012 issue of Cathedral Age magazine, the quarterly publication of Washington National Cathedral.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life offers extensive resources on religion and politics in the 2012 campaign, including candidate profiles and analyses of current and past trends among religious voters.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR, continues to be the best-known and most aggressive organization for addressing grievances by Muslims, but it has become a target of government scrutiny because of allegations linking it to the Palestinian Hamas movement. The FBI curtailed contact with CAIR, as Fox News reported in this January 30, […]
Read the text of President Obama’s 2009 speech at Cairo University on the civil rights of Muslims.