According to the latest Pew poll, 76 percent of white evangelicals support former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and only 17 percent back President Barack Obama. About 26 percent supported Obama in 2008, sparking hopes of a breakthrough for the Evangelical Left. Romney, despite his Mormon faith and mostly silence about social issues that energize many evangelicals, seems on his way to attaining the soaring 79 percent that Bush received in 2004.
With the elections in just a few days, Evangelist Billy Graham has become more vocal about issues of morality. One of the key issues he’s tackling is same-sex marriage.
Walking to class with red tape across her lips last year, college student Betsy Joy was approached by a fellow student who asked what she was doing. She gave him literature describing her participation in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity. He confided to her that his girlfriend had recently had an abortion.
The same-sex marriage battle is heating up in a disturbing way. Gallaudet University has put its chief diversity officer on paid leave after she signed a petition to put a gay marriage referendum on the ballot in Maryland.
A Wisconsin school district has ordered a joint public-private school football team to change its logo – in the middle of the season — after a lone parent said the inclusion of a bishop’s hat and cross was a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Political strategists, take note: Nearly 1 in 5 Americans now identify themselves as “unaffiliated” when it comes to their religious denomination.
