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Religion News Service’s David Gibson lists five reasons why “Obama is losing the contraception fight.” That’s not true; polls show that even Catholics don’t object to the contraception coverage benefit.

The vision of justice and political progress that reigns in American culture and progressive religious circles is one of restoring the individual’s dignity, which imagines the individual—even as a member of a community—as somehow whole. This vision of wholeness, however, often has to function differentially: for my wholeness to be meaningful, then someone somewhere, if only imaginatively and fantastically, has to be understood as lacking wholeness, as needing restoration.

Meanwhile, progressive Mormons welcome court ruling.

The charlatans and the satirists.

Over the past several years, Black and Latino fundamentalist anti-abortion groups have vigorously aligned themselves with the white religious right in the battle to take down family planning. The current furor over the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to withdraw funding for Planned Parenthood highlighted the role of Eve Sanchez Silver, founder of a little-known group called the International Coalition of Color for Life. According to the Los Angeles Times, Sanchez Silver, a former medical research analyst for and charter member of the Komen Foundation, has been a leading advocate against Planned Parenthood within Komen.

No point for Obama to try Hawaii compromise.

As experts crunch the numbers, there’s no clear link between lack of faith outreach and loss of “religious” voters.

So, “who wants to live in an institution?”

Romney’s religious freedom argument falls flat.

New Public Religion Research Institute poll.