Religion and Politics

Obama Campaign Hires Faith Outreach Director

Directly addressing the integration of faith and politics in the oncoming presidential election, Obama has hired “a religious outreach director, an activist close to the campaign.” Michael Wear “will join the Obama campaign in Chicago as Faith Vote Director,” writes Dan Gilgoff of CNN. Until now, Wear served in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, working under Joshua Dubois, who ran Obama’s faith-based outreach in the 2008 campaign.

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