Politics

Former Senate candidate and Tea Party activist Sharron Angle and former Colorado congressman and 2008 presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo have endorsed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

In a statement released Thursday, Angle said she has known Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, for years. "He is a strong fiscal and social conservative who stands on principles above politics," she said.

"He has never wavered in his support for family values understanding the impact that strong families have on a prosperous economy." She also praised Santorum's opposition to amnesty for illegal immigrants, to President Obama's health care overhaul, to Wall Street bailouts, and to a cap and trade energy policy. more >>

Newt Gingrich has what is known in business circles as an "angel" investor to his presidential campaign. In other circles it is referred to as a "sugar daddy." Regardless of what you call it, this billionaire casino owner and his family have kept Gingrich afloat due to their massive contributions to Gingrich's Super Pac. The question is, how much influence does this casino magnate have on the American political system?

Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner, is listed as the eight-richest American with a net worth of over $20 billion. He met Gingrich when he served as speaker of the House in the mid to late 1990s and the two bonded over their support for Israel, making he and Gingrich ideological soul mates of sort. Adelson also refers to himself as the "richest Jew in the world."

The son of a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania and once a cab driver from Boston, Adelson rose to prominence by founding the popular Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas. While he doesn't use a personal computer himself, the event was a must-attend for computer techies for years and Adelson sold the business for about $860 million in 1995. more >>

Vanderbilt University students who are being forced to allow nonbelievers to take leadership positions in their Christian clubs may have no legal recourse because the four-year institution is privately funded, the head of a conservative law firm told The Christian Post.

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mathew Staver said the Tennessee school "can essentially do anything that they want to" in this current circumstance.

The university has currently placed five student groups on provisional status because they refused to open their leadership positions to those who cannot or do not want to lead Bible studies or worship meetings. more >>

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill this week that would limit a controversial decision by the Obama administration mandating health coverage for contraceptive services. He spoke about that bill in a Thursday interview with The Christian Post.

The ruling requires employers to provide free contraceptive services, including abortifacients, in their health insurance coverage. There is an exemption for religious organizations, but it is written so narrowly that most religious organizations, such as schools, hospitals and public service organizations, would not qualify. Rubio's bill would expand the exemption for religious groups.

CP: Your bill, The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, S.B. 2043, expands the religious exemption, but does not get rid of the mandate altogether, correct? more >>

Conservative and liberal Christians say their own views on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage would differ greatly from Jesus if he were walking among them today, according to a recent survey. In addition, respondents believe that Jesus would be more compassionate than they are toward undocumented immigrants and the poor. 

In a survey published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 787 respondents who identify as Christian were asked to use a 100-point scale ranging from liberal to conservative and to identify where on the scale they believe "a contemporary Jesus" would fall on certain issues. 

The study, authored by Lee D. Ross, a professor of psychology at Stanford University for more than 30 years, apparently shows how people's political views are often separated from the teachings of their faith.  more >>

President Barack Obama will sit down with religious and public figures for the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning amid concerns from both religious and secular groups that the event should be amended.

The Fellowship Foundation held the inaugural National Prayer Breakfast in 1953. It has become precedence for the U.S. President to attend the event – usually held in a Washington D.C. area banquet hall – and public figures like Bono and Mother Theresa have previously attended the breakfast.

But while the gathering's intention is to call attention to the power of prayer, secular groups say the event comes dangerously close to blending church and state affairs while some religious figures think the event has become a token, meaningless gesture. more >>