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Long-time Beliefnet contributor Lama Surya Das represented Buddhism spectacularly well in this most challenging venue:

David Brody of Christian Broadcasting Network has a good run-down of McCain’s flip-flop (clarification? refinement?) about gay adoption. Basically, at first he said gays shouldn’t be allowed to adopt even if the alternative was an orphange or foster care. Then he said that states could allow that if they want. Brody says McCain had been…

I completely missed the story about Obama kicking the boy in the head:

Shabos goy is the term used by orthodox Jews for gentiles who help them with certain tasks they’re forbidden from doing during the Sabbath, such as operating electrical devices. According to Newsweek’s excellent cover story on Obama’s faith, when he was a state senator in Illinois his roommate was Ira Silverstein, an Orthodox Jew. He…
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