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Oh dear. The head of the Republican Naitonal Committee, Michael Steele, appears to support a woman’s right to choose on abortion: In an interview witrh GQ, he says: Steele: The choice issue cuts two ways. You can choose life or you can choose abortion. You know, my mother chose life. So, you know, I think…

The Wall Street Journal excerpts a new book revealing that, based on recently released White House records, Ronald Reagan tried to convert Soviety leader Michael Gorbachev. In a private meeting, Reagan praised Gorbachev for providing more religious freedom and urged him to go further. Then, according to notes taken by two aides: The president said…

The big American Religious Identification Survey that came out yesterday reported that 12% of the population believe in a higher power but not a personal God. So there are more Deists than Jews, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists combined. Would the Founding Fathers have been in that 12%? That’s a common question I got during my…

An 18-year-old Cincinnatti teen named Jessica Logan committed suicide after her ex-boyfriend emailed around naked cell phone photos of her. The AOL teen site Lemondrop reports: Logan was harassed daily by other girls calling her “slut” and “whore” and throwing objects at her. She finished high school last year and went on national television with…

The paperback edition of my book, Founding Faith, comes out this week. It makes a perfect Ides of March present! Buy it here. I thought I’d use the anniversary to reflect a bit on the reaction the book has gotten. In doing many speeches and media appearances on the book, there have been a few…

Jews who feared that Bernard Madoff was making their tribe seem uniquely culpable for the financial immorality, can relax: Bloomberg today reports that Allen Stanford used his Baptist ties to promote his scam.

The blockbuster new American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College reports that the fastest growing “faith group” is the one claiming “no religion.” (Full study here.) Look at USA Today’s stunning visual depiction of the flight from Catholicism and “Other Christian.” Then click on the slide for “no religion.” A jarring difference. Cathy Grossman of…

In a brief post the other day, I made a modest proposal: gay activists should offer a deal to opponents of gay marriage: if you support gay marriage, we’ll support efforts to reduce the divorce rate. I wanted to unpack this idea a bit. First, some opponents of same sex marriage say their big fear…

It’s fair game to make fun of nervous nellies who protect their kids too much but I just got an email passalong from a relative that has me seething. The full email is after the jump but it’s basically a funny list of all the dangerous things we did as kids. “First, we survived being…

Some tips for parents trying to help a child through the loss of a pet. Most interesting: don’t use euphemisms like “God took Buffy to heaven.” Experts Allen and Linda Anderson say “these ways of describing death can be confusing to children and can cause them to fear going to sleep or getting sick, to…
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