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I see Al Franken is getting criticized for some his religiously offensive comedy. Apparently, he compared communion wafers to chips and guacamole and said God has his head “up his ass.” Yep. For a Senator, pretty darn offensive. The only question is whether he’s going to get dispensation for things he said as a comedian.…

When Barack Obama earlier in the campaign talked about McCain’s penchant for gambling, he turned it into a metaphor: McCain would gamble with the economy. But at the time I suspected there was something more to the Obama tactic than a message about special interest money. Surely they must have known that McCain’s connection’s to…

We’ve certainly had a healthy dose of religion in the 2008 presidential campaign. We’ve been treated to: Sarah Palin’s claiming that God had endorsed a natural gas pipeline; Barack Obama explaining Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright; Joe Biden getting into a theological argument with the Catholic Bishops; and John McCain praising the “most God-loving” parts…

Almost every religious group in American complains they suffer persecution. And they do. But two things jump out of the FBI’s recently released report on hate crimes. First, only 18% were “motivated by religious bias” compared to 50.% by race. Second, there were twice as many hate crimes based on sexual orientation (16.6%) as there…
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