MondayâÂ?Â?s Religion News Roundup: Romney at Liberty, Obama (a heretic?) at Barnard, no gay prom, more breast-beating

Mitt Romney gave the commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday and tried to woo evangelicals while finessing his own Mormonism. The reviews are many and generally positive, depending on what you were looking for. Mark Silk calls it “an exceptionally well-calculated performance.” CBN’s David Brody says it was “a winning effort.” Romney himself tells […]

Mitt Romney gave the commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday and tried to woo evangelicals while finessing his own Mormonism.

The reviews are many and generally positive, depending on what you were looking for. Mark Silk calls it “an exceptionally well-calculated performance.” CBN’s David Brody says it was “a winning effort.”

Romney himself tells CBN that he’s not running to be “pastor-in-chief.”


Black churches react to Barack Obama’s evolution on gay marriage. Are opponents being hypocritical?

Obama could hit some culture war issues today when he addresses the graduates at Manhattan’s women-only Barnard College, a speech he asked to make. And after he’ll headline a $5,000-a-ticket fund-raiser in Chelsea co-hosted by LGBT Leadership Council and singer Ricky Martin.

A student at a Lexington, Kentucky Catholic High School claims she was barred from prom because she planned to bring a date of the same sex.

Elsewhere in the country, Gallup says acceptance of homosexual relations is “the new normal.”

Nancy Pelosi says her Catholic faith “compels” her to support same-sex rights, much as President Obama said his more Protestant version tells him to do the same.

A top priest in Washington says Obama is embracing heresy.

Atheists aren’t going to shame liberals like E.J. Dionne into leaving the Catholic Church.

Do talk-radio standards justify Richard Land's plagiarism? (That is copied almost verbatim from EthicsDaily’s headline, by the way.)

Lawmakers in Kansas say you can’t be too careful, so they are the latest to pass a bill to outlaw the use of Islamic Shariah law in civil courts.

An appeals court says no official Day of Prayer for Colorado.

Is China training Tibetan women to assassinate the Dalai Lama? All very Bond-ish.

The Lama was less forthcoming about his views on whether Tibetan monks should self-immolate.

Shocked by that Time magazine cover of the breastfeeding kid? Matthew Schmitz suggests you think again. And he includes a gallery of images, like the one above, to help.

David Gibson

Photo credit: First Things
 

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