House Homeland Security Chief Peter King held his second hearing on radical Islam yesterday, this time focusing on prisons, and the Detroit News says it ended much like his first hearing: split largely along partisan lines. Or, as the GOP-friendly Washington Times headlined it: “Radical Muslims recruit criminals in U.S. prisons.”

In case there was any doubt, Southern Baptists really believe in hell. A lot. Speaking of, SBC President Bryant Wright held a 30-minute “cordial” meeting with gay activists who want an apology from Southern Baptists. “When I teach from the pulpit about adultery, I don’t hate adulterers,” Wright said on the general topic of homosexuality and “sexual purity.”

A Vermont man is being held on $10,000 bail after being charged with possession (but not theft) of a relic of the True Cross that was stolen from Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross last year.

WaPo asks if Catholic University‘s move back to single-sex dorms is going to accomplish the stated goal of curbing binge drinking and casual sex. Speaking of ledw and lascivious behavior, a Catholic charity in St. Louis cancelled a planned fundraiser with Hooters because the Hooters girls aren’t, well, the most virtuous image for the church.

Mennonite-affiliated Goshen College will no longer play the national anthem at sporting events, reversing last year’s decision to allow the anthem even as some Mennonites considered its bombs-bursting-in-air lyrics too militaristic for their pacifist loyalties.

Mormon Church leaders, hoping to capitalize on the runaway hit “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway, have launched a 40-foot digital billboard in Times Square.

There’s a worrisome story out of Cordova, Ala., where a black 16-year-old says his mother and two young boys were turned away from a tornado shelter in a Methodist church; the woman and the two boys died, and now everyone in town is talking about what it all means.

The Forward tracks down George Washington’s famous letter on religious freedom to the Jews of Newport, R.I., and finds it collecting dust in a warehouse in suburban Maryland. Up in New York, an ex-employee is suing a prominent real estate developer who claims he was fired when his boss found out he was Jewish, but not Jewish Orthodox.

And here’s a headline that B16 (who was forced to join the Hitler Youth) doesn’t want to see: “Pope’s Berlin mass moved to Nazi Olympic site.”

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz wants the Israeli military to change its official memorial prayer for fallen soldiers from “May God remember his sons and daughters” to the more secular original: “May the nation of Israel remember its sons and daughters.”

Tehran’s religious police have declared necklaces off-limits for men, as well as “glamorous” hair styles.