There was no «
religious issue in the campaign, despite the fact that the candidates were unbaptized Dwight David Eisenhower and nonchurchgoing Unitarian Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr..
Not exact matches
But because I believe that the entire Church, including the hierarchy, benefits from honest challenge and critique, I have not avoided what might be deemed «controversial» when I thought it important: during political
campaigns, when grave moral
issues were at stake; during the Long Lent of 2002;
in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run - up to the Iraq War;
in response to challenges to
religious freedom
in America that couldn't have been imagined
in 1978, when «work for
religious freedom» meant «work for prisoners of conscience behind the iron curtain.»
As U.S. Sen. Obama's adviser on faith
issues on Capitol Hill, as candidate Obama's
religious affairs director on his 2008
campaign, and as President Obama's director of the White House faith - based initiative, I have had the honor of seeing firsthand the life and heart of a president who cares deeply about his country, his family and his God,
in times of prayer, conversation and diligent work.
This supposition was confirmed
in 1960 when there was a «
religious issue»
in the
campaign.
CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the
issue of widespread hate
campaigns by state and non-state actors against
religious minorities
in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against
religious minorities.»
He was picketed by
religious groups during the 2010 election
campaign for his stance on family and parenting
issues, which, as outlined
in the poll opposite, went down like a lead balloon with some Christian voters.
Topics
in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising
campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided
in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond
issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar
religious groups from renting after - hours space
in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant
in Union Square, a tax break included
in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.
Before joining POLITICO, she was a reporter at Inside Higher Ed, where she covered federal higher education policy — including Congress, the Education Department and higher education
issues in the 2012
campaign — and
religious colleges.