Tuesday’s roundup

Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell, who raised eyebrows when she confessed she once dabbled in witchcraft, has now angered the witches, but not all of them. Southern Baptist Seminary prez Al Mohler sees danger in increased cultural acceptance of yoga. (Some) Montana Republicans are fit to be tied over a plank in the state party platform that […]

Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell, who raised eyebrows when she confessed she once dabbled in witchcraft, has now angered the witches, but not all of them. Southern Baptist Seminary prez Al Mohler sees danger in increased cultural acceptance of yoga.

(Some) Montana Republicans are fit to be tied over a plank in the state party platform that calls for homosexuality to be criminalized (even though the state Supreme Court ruled against such laws 13 years ago). Florida Gov. (and Senate candidate) Charlie Crist signals he may drop the fight over the state’s ban on gay adoptions.

WaPo’s Eugene Robinson wonders where Newt Gingrich got the idea that U.S. courts are about to (or want to) use Shariah law in meting out sentences. USA Today asks if there’s enough room in the GOP for both religious conservatives and the tea party.


Muslim leaders who strategized on Sunday say U.S. mosques need to host a national week of dialogue next month to combat Islamophobia, and also voiced support for the controversial Park51 Islamic center in lower Manhattan.The Park51 imam, meanwhile, is staying at a “secure, undisclosed location” and is under police protection, friends say. Gainesville officials plan to stick Pastor Terry Jones with a $200,000 bill for security provided at the cancelled Quran burn.

The ACLU is suing Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., to stop the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer before city meetings. The (Obama) Justice Department said the (G.W. Bush) FBI improperly kept tabs on domestic groups for radicalism, including a Catholic peace group.

As if the Catholic Church in Belgium didn’t have enough headaches lately, now two bishops say married men should be allowed to serve as priests. There’s a new scandal brewing at the Vatican bank over possible money laundering. Irish singer (and disaffected or excommunicated Catholic, depending on who you ask) Sinead O’Connor doesn’t buy the pope’s recent statements about sex abuse.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he’s willing to increase aid to the world’s poor by 20 percent, and wants other wealthy nations to pony up. The U.N. says progress is actually being made in meeting the Millennium Development goals, including cutting “extreme poverty” in half by 2015.

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