After all the fuss over Mormons performing proxy baptisms on behalf of dead Jews, now there's word that they've also done proxy marriage “sealings,” including for President Thomas Jefferson and his slave mistress, Sally Hemmings.
If it's offensive to say that Jews have big noses, is it equally offensive for a plastic surgeon who's known as “Dr. Shnoz” to offer free rhinoplasty to young Jewish girls? After he made a “Jewcan Sam” video? You decide.
From the Dept. of Who Knew?, there's apparently a price war brewing between U.S.-made matzo and Israeli-made matzo in the final week leading up to Passover.
Remember that Assemblies of God church in Pensacola, Fla., that was the center of the famed “Brownsville Revival”? The AP reports te church is now teetering on the edge of financial ruin.
Religious leaders are joining Ashton Kutcher in pushing the Village Voice to stop selling sex ads on its Backpage.com website, saying it's been linked to sex trafficking.
The feds have added more more defendants to the hate crimes case of those bizarre Amish beard-cutting attacks; defense lawyers say it won't affect their legal strategy.
This isn't religious per se but still interesting: The Arkansas Supreme Court says high school students have a right to consensual sex with their teachers (as long as both are of legal age). Someone cue the video.
Suzan Johnson Cook, the State Department's newish ambassador for international religious freedom, is settling into life in Foggy Bottom. Atheists in the military are getting ready to “Rock Beyond Belief” at North Carolina's Fort Bragg tomorrow.
In Britain, the big-C Conservatives are leading the push for gay marriage.
Looks like pope's trip to Mexico was worth the time: legislators approved a measure, 72-35, that will allow public religious events.
Retiring Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the challenges facing the Anglican Communion “won't go away” now that his own Church of England has rejected a proposed Anglican Covenant to keep rogue churches in the Anglican Communion in line.
Police in France rounded up 17 suspected Islamic militants in Toulouse who were presumably accomplices to the man who shot and killed four people outside a Jewish school before being taken down by police. Meanwhile, the gunman, Mohammed Merah, was buried in France yesterday.
— Kevin Eckstrom
(image of Thomas Jefferson via Wikimedia Commons)
