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Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who lost this crucial swing state in November, sounded Friday as if he were still stumping for Florida's votes. The Massachusetts senator, at a National Head Start Association conference to tout his plan to provide health care for uninsured children, hammered on familiar themes of values and unity while repeatedly criticizing the Bush administration and Republican leaders in Congress. "I went back and reread the whole New Testament the other day. Nowhere in the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ did I find a suggestion at all, ever, anywhere, in any way whatsover, that you...

OPINION - Picture in your mind an angry caricature of a man who was shaking his fist in the face of the Almighty. It is quite likely that the man would be a Democrat. And most likely his name would be John F. Kerry. It was a tough week for the "has been" presidential nominee. Hillary is beating him in anything resembling a poll for 2008. Tom DeLay is ready and waiting to go before the House Ethics Committee, but the Democrats can't seem to get their act together to accept the challenge. The leader of the body he serves...

DAYTON, Ohio, Oct 31 (AFP) - Democratic nominee John Kerry on Sunday pledged to heal America's "wounds" as he preached to African American worshippers in the crucial swing state of Ohio, two days before the toss-up US election. Kerry, at the altar of the Shiloh Baptist church, tempered his raw meat political message with lessons from the Bible, to chide the social and economic policies of his opponent, President George W. Bush. "As the scripture teaches us, those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength and they will soar on wings like eagles and they will run and...

Subj: Kerry Scolds Vatican Over Gay Marriage Date: 10/31/2004 8:37:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: "Fr. Peter West" To: Kerry Scolds Vatican Over Gay Marriage Associated Press BOSTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry scolded the Vatican Friday for saying Catholic politicians like himself have a "moral duty" to oppose laws granting legal rights to gay couples. "I believe in the church and I care about it enormously," said the Massachusetts senator. "But I think that it's important to not have the church instructing politicians. That is an inappropriate crossing of the line in America." The Vatican had urged Catholics...

I HAVE BEEN following John Kerry's career for 22 years, ever since his 1982 run for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. I have encountered him in small private gatherings and in large public settings. I have spoken about him often with people who know him well. I have read innumerable accounts of his non-political passions and pastimes. And if at any point during all those years you had asked me whether I thought Kerry was a religious man, I would have answered without hesitation: ''No, not at all.'' I would have had plenty of company, too. A Time magazine poll in...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Democrat John Kerry on Sunday tried to persuade late-deciding voters that they can put their faith in his leadership by describing the values and beliefs that he says have guided him and would shape his presidency. Kerry said the Bible - and the American dream - says society must take care of its most vulnerable members, but in many ways that test is not being met under the country's current leadership. And he responded to some leaders of the Catholic church who have criticized his support of abortion rights and stem cell research. "I love my...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) on Sunday tried to persuade late-deciding voters that they can put their faith in his leadership by describing the values and beliefs that he says have guided him and would shape his presidency. Kerry said the Bible — and the American dream — says society must take care of its most vulnerable members, but in many ways that test is not being met under the country's current leadership. And he responded to some leaders of the Catholic church who have criticized his support of abortion rights and stem cell...

Friday, October 22, 2004 Kerry: Does he or doesn't he? Posted: October 22, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Rebecca Hagelin © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Sen. Kerry is trying to make the practice of faith an issue in the presidential election. But if you listen to what he says, it's extremely difficult to figure out exactly what is and isn't an acceptable application of one's faith in the public square. Quite frankly, his message on faith and policy sounds like gobbledygook. So ... does he, or doesn't' he? Does Sen. Kerry believe that an elected official's faith and moral values should influence his or her...

John F. Kerry is evolving from a reserved Catholic reluctant to discuss faith in the public square into a Democratic preacher of sorts.. From the pulpit to the pastures, Kerry is increasingly spreading a more spiritual messag... ...In what has become a familiar refrain of Kerry's sermons, he told the story of the Good Samaritan to illustrate God's calling to help the least of America's people. "This," he said, "is how you reach the kingdom of Heaven."

Kerry picks and chooses. He invokes God's guidance on the little stuff, the easy stuff, the boilerplate. He turns his back on God on the big issues,abortion and, with a wink, gay marriage. Goldberg says that Kerry seems to have it backwards. God doesn't take a position on the minimum wage or the Superfund, so politicians shouldn't feel the need to consult HIM. Beyond the naked pandering, Kerry's positions are morally and religiously empty. When it comes to tough issues, what Kerry wants is GRACE ON THE CHEAP. Bush says God guides him in everything he does. Kerry says that...

NewsMax.com's Fr. Michael Reilly zeroes in on John Kerry's little-noticed debate flip-flop on religion in politics. "Now, with respect to religion, you know, as I said, I grew up a Catholic. I was an altar boy. I know that throughout my life this has made a difference to me," Sen. John Kerry told the audience at Arizona State University during Wednesday night's presidential debate. Kerry explained that he can't rely on his faith when it comes to issues like abortion and gay marriage, but by the end of his answer, he was arguing that his faith influences his positions on...

I Noticed Kerry looked up a couple of Bible verses to recite during the debates and I’m not real sure how he was trying to use them in what he was trying to say. The President, however, has not quoted verse in the debates, but a belief that comes from a lot of verses, specifically a belief that freedom is a gift from God. I thought I would post a few of those in hopes that maybe Kerry might read one or two of them. Hopefully he will pay special attention to the Final verse. Sorry for the vanity guys

JOHN KERRY'S RELIGION September 28, 2004 by Joe Sobran In his convention acceptance speech, John Kerry made a brief, vague reference to his "faith" and skipped over the subject even more quickly than he did his political career. A few months ago, it appeared that Kerry might have trouble with some Catholic bishops if he tried to take Communion, because of his consistent advocacy of abortion. But Kerry and his defenders insisted that he was a Catholic in good standing, and the issue faded away. Still, there were unanswered questions about how seriously Kerry took his Catholicism. Had he...

The Lord has a way of revealing those of us who really know him, and those that don't! Kerry gave a big speech last week about how his faith is so "important" to him. In this attempt to convince the American people that we should consider him for president, he announced that his favorite Bible verse is John 16:3. Of course the speech writer meant John 3:16, but nobody in the Kerry camp was familiar enough with scripture to catch the error. And do you know what John 16:3 says? John 16:3 - "They will do such things because they...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has begun speaking more openly about his faith, a move political experts say is crucial to chipping away at President Bush's advantage among churchgoers. Kerry, a Roman Catholic, rarely addressed his faith during the primary season, but from his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last month to regular visits to black and non-denominational churches, he is talking in more detail about God's role in his life. At the Greater Grace Temple in Springfield, Ohio, last Sunday, Kerry told hundreds of worshipers he was running as a "lay leader" but added:...

Many American’s watched John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Presidency give his acceptance speech before a raving audience at the Democratic Party Convention in Boston, Mass. Kerry was well rehearsed, and had his lines down pat as he stood before the masses his far-left-wing supporters. He came, he spoke, he made his points, but did you catch what he was really saying? Were you able to discern what he really meant when he said, “help is on the way”? He talked about Jobs, wealth, and prosperity claiming that President Bush has cost America too many jobs, and that...

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) - John Kerry is talking more openly about his personal connection to God and guns as he kicks off the general election campaign asking for support from conservative-leaning independent voters. As his post-convention bus tour rolls through blue collar and Republican-leaning districts, Kerry has repeatedly described how he began a lifetime of hunting and fishing as a young boy. And lately he's been speaking in more detail about a faith that he and running mate John Edwards share in God. "We're running to be lay leaders, but there isn't any way that you're not affected by...

Kerry has a different language, a different connection to ritual, and a different relationship to Jesus than that of Bush. John Kerry was never a Prodigal Son. His faith journey contains no leave-taking and triumphant return, no revival, no conversion on the road to Damascus. Unlike President Bush--a Protestant who experienced a profound conversion at age 40 under the Rev. Billy Graham's tutelage--Kerry has been a steady, churchgoing Catholic literally since the day he was born. For Americans who have grown accustomed in the last four years to a certain kind of spiritual biography, Kerry's will seem starkly different. He...

Sen. John Kerry revealed a lot about himself in his speech last night at the Democrat convention, such as when he paraphrased fellow Democrat Ron Prescott Reagan: "I don't wear my own faith on my sleeve." He failed to mention that those Catholic bishops who actually practice the Catholic faith ban him from receiving Holy Communion in their dioceses. But today he's probably regretting how much he exposed about himself when he said, "I don't want to claim that God is on our side."

As you may already know, one of America's two political parties is extremely religious. Sixty-one percent of this party's voters say they pray daily or more often. An astounding 92 percent of them believe in life after death. And there's a hard-core subgroup in this party of super-religious Christian zealots. Very conservative on gay marriage, half of the members of this subgroup believe Bush uses too little religious rhetoric, and 51 percent of them believe God gave Israel to the Jews and that its existence fulfills the prophecy about the second coming of Jesus. Liberals could read these statistics and...