Apr 17, 2008 – Americans respect the separation of religion and politics, but can they respect the candidate whose preacher loves the man and hates … Religion in our politics has a long lineage.…

Apr 16, 2008 – We're too dumb to think through big issues, so we "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them …" … I didn't wear my religion on my sleeve, but I mentioned it now and again (as I do now and again in MULLINGS) in passing when it made … These bitter, frustrated small town people, from Southeastern Ohio, from Appalachia, who cling to guns and religion and "antipathy…

Apr 16, 2008 – We now know that there are at least two forms of religion that Barack Obama does not believe in: the religion preached by the Rev. … Jeremiah Wright, who baptized his children, and the religion clung to by the bitter people of Pennsylvania, whose votes he hopes will … crowd at a San Francisco fund-raiser that it did not surprise him that bitter people in small towns in Pennsylvania "cling" to religion…

Apr 16, 2008 – But he may be less lucky with remarks he made recently about embittered, small-town Americans, who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy … issues of culpability, so they resort to racism, xenophobia, isolationism, and protectionism," and "a simplistic Sunday school religion…

Apr 16, 2008 – It's not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant … recycling the liberal cliches of the '80s, namely that Pennsylvania's "bitter" voters have been duped by "wedge issues" like guns, religion…

Apr 16, 2008 – neither the Bush or Clinton administrations helped restore them, so "it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion…

Apr 15, 2008 – This isn't science versus religion; it's scientific evidence versus scientific evidence. … This is a great example of what science does and religion doesn't do. It's a continuing self-testing process."…

Apr 15, 2008 – "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant…

Apr 15, 2008 – Francisco, Obama let down his hair and described working class people in Pennsylvania as so "bitter" that they "cling to guns or religion … Like so much that Obama has said and done over the years, this is standard stuff on the far left, where guns and religion are regarded…

Apr 15, 2008 – of next week's primary in heavily Catholic Pennsylvania, when he said small-town Americans are "bitter and cling to guns and religion … with Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to America this week, ought to condemn this kind of cynical politics and content-less religion…

Apr 15, 2008 – he made sure we know when telling us that small-town Americans, because of their bitterness about economic hardship, cling to religion…

Apr 15, 2008 – Explaining why many working class voters are "bitter," he said they "cling" to guns, religion and "antipathy to people who aren't like … Because the manipulable masses are easily given a "false consciousness" (another category, like religion as the "opiate" of the suffering…

Apr 15, 2008 – Catholics," says a Catholic professor quoted in the Washington Post, "are essentially developing their own religion, in tension with…

Apr 14, 2008 – In addition, I wondered whether the forum would be a liberal “love fest” that simply spoke platitudes about religion but had no teeth…

Apr 14, 2008 – Therefore, people "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment … He was retailing an article of left-wing orthodoxy going back centuries: that the working class is distracted by religion and other…

Apr 14, 2008 – I have been pounding religion for nine years on this show.”  … “The problem is they drill religion into your head when you are very young.  … Maher’s anti-Catholic, anti-religion rhetoric is part of his schtick as a comedian. …

Apr 14, 2008 – Obviously, it's refreshing to see religion treated seriously in public life, and so I've hesitated to criticize CNN for its "Compassion … and Huckabee campaigns, I think there is a real danger when political discourse moves into the realm of theology (as opposed to religion … Again, it's nice to see religion treated as something more than an ugly stepchild hidden away in the attic. …

Apr 14, 2008 – , at a private San Francisco fundraiser, Obama said he believed “bitter” people in places like Pennsylvania “cling to guns and religion … released Monday by the American Research Group shows Obama dropped eight points in Pennsylvania after he made comments about guns and religion…

Apr 14, 2008 – the other day, the most disturbing aspect of this entire scandal is that Obama's comments demonstrate how liberals truly view religion…

Apr 14, 2008 – Religion in American culture and politics returns to the news this week in a big way with the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. … Many academicians and institutions enthusiastically ridicule people of faith, and religion in general. … Religion, at least in the Judeo-Christian model, claims to be truth.…

Apr 14, 2008 – " of religion. … In other words, the term "religion" means not only "religion" but also "atheism." … Yet if the free exercise clause defines religion in a way that includes atheism, then the no-establishment clause must define religion…

Apr 12, 2008 – It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant … condescending "it's not surprising" to the "natural response" and from accusing these people of bigotry and "cling[ing] . . . to religion…

Apr 12, 2008 – As you'll recall, he said religion is a "crutch" for the "weak-minded." … Obama has inadvertently revealed how liberals really view religion -- as competition to government (their real savior).  … Those who want government to control the people have always resented religion -- or what liberal fascists might refer to as: "the opiate…

Apr 11, 2008 – It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant … (And what's that about "cling[ing]" to religion, anyway?)…

Apr 11, 2008 – Remember the good ole' (and generally very wise) advice of steering clear from the topics of religion and politics at the dinner table … Christians understood the essential qualities of providing "reasonable, logical, and fundamental" arguments outside the realm of religion…