Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup: Mitt Romney wins; Franklin Graham apologizes; lesbian denied Communion

As you've probably heard, Mitt Romney won big in Arizona and eked out a narrow victory in his native state of Michigan on Tuesday.  Santorum bested Romney among evangelicals in Michigan 51-35, but lost non-evangelicals, including Catholics, in Michigan and Arizona.  Mark Silk's take: “Those numbers suggest that come next week's Super Tuesday contests, Santorum […]

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As you've probably heard, Mitt Romney won big in Arizona and eked out a narrow victory in his native state of Michigan on Tuesday. 

Santorum bested Romney among evangelicals in Michigan 51-35, but lost non-evangelicals, including Catholics, in Michigan and Arizona

Mark Silk's take: “Those numbers suggest that come next week's Super Tuesday contests, Santorum should have no trouble picking up Tennessee and Oklahoma, where the evangelical portion of the GOP primary electorate was 73 percent and 72 percent respectively in 2008. But unfortunately for him, he couldn't manage to make it onto the ballot in Virginia, where, with an evangelical vote of 46 percent, he'd have had a shot. And Georgia appears to be Newt's last hurrah. So the key state will be Ohio, where the evangelical vote was 44 percent last time around.” 


For what it's worth, Santorum now says he wants to take back that line about JFK's speech making him want to throw up. 

NPR reports on a conservative group that's using data mining to find five million unregistered evangelical voters

Politico looks a the slow fade of Obama's faith-based council.

Franklin Graham apologized for questioning Obama's faith, but doesn't sound like he's ready to sit on the president's council. 

The Justice Department is beginning an investigation into possible civil rights violations incurred by the NYPD's surveillance of entire American Muslim neighborhoods.

A Maryland priest denied Communion to a lesbian at her mother's funeral Mass, triggering an uproar in the gay community. 

The Archbishop of Canterbury said that laws against sexual minorities were equivalent to racism.

London police evicted OWS protesters from the plaza surrounding St. Paul's Cathedral after months of wrangling.


A Brazilian bishop who broke away from his Anglican church over the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire was found murdered.

The Taliban is attempting to capitalize on the outbreak of violence that followed the inadvertent burning of a Quran by characterizing the war as a conflict between infidels and Islam, analysts said.

Judge Roy Moore of Alabama wants his old job back, and none of his opponents want to talk about how Moore was forced from office over a Ten Commandments monument.  

No one seems to like the pope's Twitter handle. Rich people are more likely to steal candy from babies.

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Daniel Burke 

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