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Georgetown founder John Carroll wouldn’t be surprised to find his university in a controversy concerning the appropriate place of religious groups in civil affairs… but he might be surprised that this time an attack came from within the Church.

40,000 Hasidim vs. Internet.

I was excited to read Religion for Atheists—really I was. Here’s a confessed atheist, pop philosopher Alain de Botton, who nonetheless actually believes that religion is worth looking at, unlike his more militant friends in the New Atheist camp. .

Romney’s Hannity talk.

Best. Student. Group. Name. Ever.

What they’d find in the committee overseeing the investigation may not sit well with the Girl Scouts’ values.

So, let’s see if I can total all this up. Traditional marriage is one man with multiple wives, multiple concubines, wives conquered in war and wives acquired in levirate marriage, possibly including girls under the age of ten, but definitely not including anyone of a different ethnic group, in an arranged marriage with disposition of property as its purpose. That seems very different from “one man, one woman,” does it not?

Mourning the loss of a scholar, an activist, a mentor.

The only thing that will get the bishops’ attention? Money.

But it’s politics, not religion, at stake here.