Jurors in Oregon took less than an hour to convict two faith-healing parents of criminal mistreatment after they failed to seek medical attention for their infant daughter when she developed a mass over her eye that nearly left her blind.
Tea Party fave Michelle Bachmann already scored big with Christian conservatives last weekend, and has now picked up another key endorsement: former Huckabee adviser (and GOP wise man) Ed Rollins. Mitt Romney, meanwhile, totally dodges a question about squaring his support for gay “equal rights” (except marriage) with the Mormon Church’s position on homosexuality as sinful.
CNN says so far only Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has agreed to show up for Texas Gov. Rick Perry‘s Aug. 6 day of prayer and fasting for the soul of America. August, in Houston, sounds a lot more like hell than heaven if you ask me. Just sayin’.
A Muslim cabbie in St. Louis is trying to fight a fine and lost wages after he was ticketed for wearing a kufi cap in violation of the taxi commission’s dress code.
Three Catholic Charities agencies in Illinois who dropped adoptions rather than comply with the state’s new civil unions law have filed suit, seeking protection from possible sanctions for turning away same-sex couples. About half the military has been trained on the pending repeal of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell, which one official called a “non-event.”
If you’re bringing your family to a celebration of the Old Latin Mass, don’t expect to see girls on the altar, according to the Vatican. A totally gnarly mosaic of a surfing Madonna (the Virgin, not the musician) is drawing crowds in — where else? — southern California.
A British man who stuffed pork into the shoes of Muslims praying at a mosque has escaped jail time because he went back to the mosque and apologized.
Egyptians say clerics should be free to advise lawmakers in the drafting of a new constitution, but don’t want them running the show like in Tehran.
Following up on the Obedient Wife Club that’s attracting interest across the Muslim world, there’s now this: A Kuwaiti (female!) politician thinks it’d be a good idea to legalize sex slaves for “decent, devout and virile” Muslim men who can’t control themselves but don’t want to commit adultery. Plus, she adds, if the sex slaves came from war-torn countries, they’d have a “better life.”
