Producer's Desk — politics

Dr. Richard Land will be on Fox & Friends Saturday morning at 6:50 AM CT/7:50 AM ET on the Fox News Channel.

He will be discussing McCain’s VP pick, Governor Sarah Palin, as well as the Senator’s outreach to Evangelicals.

My latest post at Casting Stones:

At the Saddleback Civil Forum, Sen. McCain said that he was pro-life and would have a pro-life administration. The first selection of a prospective McCain administration has been made, and the senator could not have made a more pro-life appointment. I have already received two calls from pro-life Evangelical women who are delighted almost beyond words that they will now have a prominent pro-life woman who is the mother of five as one of the most prominent spokespersons for their cause. Gov. Palin is a person of faith and a devoted wife and mother whose oldest son volunteered to serve his country and will be deployed to Iraq shortly…

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My latest post to Casting Stones:

Senator Barack Obama is now the Democratic Party’s candidate for the presidency of the United States. Whether you are going to vote for him or not, this is an incredible moment for the grand experiment that is the United States of America.

Here is a comparatively young man (47), a person of color (his father was a Kenyan), who has risen by virtue of his impressive intelligence and skills to being one step away from the pinnacle of success in American political life.

It is indeed fitting, and even poetic, that Senator Obama will give his acceptance speech on the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Kudos to Jeremy Dys (The Family Policy Council of West Virginia) as he pleads with West Virginians for human rights for babys in the Charleston Gazette. Catch the official FPCWV blog here.

EXCERPT: Deciding which innocent life is of more value is not as difficult as Sen. Obama might suggest. You see, every innocent life is priceless. But, a person’s potential for human rights only matters if he or she is given an opportunity to reach it. If our leaders will not recognize human rights for children in the womb, there’s no reason to trust them to do so when children are outside of it. - Dys

In case you missed Saturday’s show notes, they can be found here and here.

Don’t miss Naomi Schaefer Riley’s WSJ interview with Rick Warren: What Saddleback’s Pastor Really Thinks About Politics:

EXCERPT: Sitting on a small stone patio outside the church’s “green room,” I question him further — has he heard that the Democratic Party is changing its abortion platform? “Window dressing,” he replies. “Too little, too late.” But Rev. Jim Wallis, the self-described progressive evangelical, has been saying that the change is a big victory. “Jim Wallis is a spokesman for the Democratic Party,” Mr. Warren responds dismissively. “His book reads like the party platform.” Read the rest…

Also, this just in from the good folks at Barna Research: Young Adults and Liberals Struggle with Morality:

American society has become more intrigued by moral issues in recent years, as evidenced by the fact that 55% of adults discuss moral issues with others during a typical week. But a nationwide survey by The Barna Group indicates that Americans have also redefined what it means to do the right thing in their own lives.

Researchers asked adults which, if any, of eight behaviors with moral overtones they had engaged in during the past week…

VIDEO:Obama claims National Right to Life is lying. - Brody File

Here are the facts:

FACT SHEET - Obama on the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act (7 page PDF, 243 KB)

… Courtesy of Doug Carlson.

2008 and 2004 DNC Platform on abortion - Casting Stones

A Conscience for the State

Short clips are listed and available to watch at Bloggingheads.tv

Hope you enjoy!

Naomi Schaeffer Riley digs into Democrats on the abortion issue at the Wall Street Journal:

According to Rev. Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners (a network of liberal Christians), this is evidence that “there’s a common ground possible here.” He said, in a conference call of religious leaders last week, “It’s never been as explicitly stated that the Democratic Party supports a woman’s decision to have their child, and offers her practical support to have her child. It’s an historic step forward.”

But no one should mistake Rev. Wallis’s views for those of most Catholics or the evangelical community.

If Democrats had wanted to “make room” for pro-lifers, they could have. One proposal for the platform was a statement of “conscience” — that is, language noting that people of good conscience can disagree on abortion. This was rejected by the platform writers.

Check out Land’s interview with CBS News…

SUBJECT: McCain’s VP choice

EXCERPT:

CBSNews.com: You’ve not always been the biggest McCain fan. Has he done a good job in this campaign reaching out to you, and reaching out to the Southern Baptists you represent?

Richard Land: Well, I don’t endorse candidates. And so, girls who don’t dance don’t get invited to as many dances. I have not been the main object of Senator McCain’s attention because he knows I don’t endorse candidates. It’s my understanding that he has been reaching out to people that are considered opinion makers in the evangelical and the conservative Catholic world. I’ve had some contacts with the campaign. They have called me and asked me questions from time to time. And I have met with the senator a couple of times…

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ATTENTION satellite radio listeners:

Richard Land is scheduled to appear on Across the Nation with Bob Dunning on Sirius Channel 159 on Tuesday Aug 5 (originally Monday Aug 4), 2008.

Subject: 2008 VP considerations.

He’s slated to be on during the 2-3pm EST hour… probably about 2:20 EST.

Enjoy!

mh

UPDATE: This has been rescheduled for Tuesday.

My latest post at Casting Stones…

The federal government has announced that the country has cut the number of “chronically homeless people” by approximately 30 percent between 2005 and 2007…The new strategy, known as “Housing First,” has succeeded in making the most significant reduction in homelessness in more than a decade. Martha Burt, of New York’s Urban Institute, called the decline in chronic homelessness “nothing short of phenomenal.”

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