Here we go again. Remember our discussion of the “Catholic vote”?
Obama and the Jewish votes
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A barely-there, skinny 19-point margin
The Los Angeles Times and KTLA conducted a poll of Californians to determine their support for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and their feelings about the state Supreme Court’s decision allowing same-sex marriage.
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RNS gets a bigger blog
The professionals over at Religion News Service would like us to pass along the fact that they have radically updated and enlarged their blog about religion news.
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A belief system vindicated
The Texas state appeals court decision that state officials wrongfully took 460 children from their parents at the FLDS ranch to place them in foster care can be summed up in a couple of words: a belief system alone does not justify state action.
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The sniper is in the details
Nobody doubts that religion plays a big role in the Iraq War. Yet few reporters, or at least the ones I have read, have shown the extent to which religion plays a role in the conflict.
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The missing majority (again)
Yesterday I pointed out the Los Angeles Times‘ rather incomplete survey of “liberal and conservative congregations” on the issue of same-sex marriage. Seventy-five percent of the religious figures who took a position in the article were exuberant about the recent California Supreme Court ruling redefining marriage to include same-sex couples.
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Return of the creepy traditionalists
Allow me to jump in with a quick post about the reactions to yesterday’s “Are faithful dads creepy or what?”
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Fear and loathing in NY archdiocese
David Gonzalez of The New York Times wrote a curiously incomplete story. He reported that a group of priests in the New York archdiocese resent Cardinal Edward Egan for reassigning them unilaterally. But he failed to explain why the priests are upset.
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Are faithful dads creepy or what?
A long, long time ago — so long ago that it predates the creation of my tmatt.net archives — I wrote a column about the birth of the “True Love Waits” movement, an attempt by the Southern Baptist Convention and conservative Christians in a host of other churches to urge teens and young adults to save sex for marriage.
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