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RD News Round-Up—November 24, 2008: Religious Right’s ‘Obama Watch’; RaptureReady.com getting readier; Focus on the Family’s ‘I Stand for Christmas’ campaign; Proposition 8: The Aftermath; Huckabee’s revenge; Christian doctrine cures OCD?

Connecticut legalizes gay marriage; Religious voters favor Obama; Blame the Jews for Wall Street; Gay marriage ‘worse than radical Islam,’; McCain to Gays: Thanks, but no thanks.

Barack Obama and John McCain will share a stage for the first time this August. Their host? Rick Warren, megachurch pastor and bestselling author—and a man with undeniable political influence.

A religio-immigration-labor story, the Midwest, and Orthodox Jews. Oh my.

McCain and Obama each had one problematic pastor. Palin has four…

Father/daughter dialogue on biblical literalism, Obama as Antichrist, and God as “She”…

Reverend Wright’s condemnation of the United States made waves, but right-wing preachers have been railing against America’s sins for years.

It’s inappropriate to compare Wright with Falwell, Robertson, or Hagee, who lay the ills of society at the door of America’s “usual suspects.”

Is a faux ‘religious left’ being manufactured as an official counterweight to the religious right in the media? Religion Dispatches talks with veteran religious right-watcher Frederick Clarkson about a new book of essays on revivifying a religious left.

Republican presidential hopeful, and dimpled everyman, Mike Huckabee’s new book is an attempt to settle scores from a contentious campaign. Why would a man with his eye on higher office so publicly slap Mitt Romney, the religious right, and the media?