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Letter from faith leaders critical of his comments about Obama’s religion.

If corporations are people, why not ova?

Santorum not alone among Catholics in antipathy to JFK’s speech.

Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño of the United Methodist Church is part of a new wave of women’s leadership in mainline Christian denominations—and if our recent phone conversation is any indication, she has her work cut out for her. She must assume the bishop’s role of watcher or overseer; she must surpass her male colleagues in competence to show that a woman, in her case an Hispanic woman, can be a good bishop; and, she must find a way to live out her own unique commitments with integrity. As was said of the legendary Ginger Rogers, she must do everything her male counterparts do, but in high heels and backwards.

Speaking on the NYPD spying scandal.

The crowd favorite at the DC screening I attended was the filmmaker’s interview with Bishop Barbara Harris, whose 1989 consecration as the first female bishop in the Anglican Communion also shook up the church. Harris is memorably direct. About the idea that Robinson is the first gay bishop, Harris snorts, “Give me a break.” In response to some of the rhetoric at the bishops’ gathering, she says, “if assholes could fly, this place would be an airport.”

Finally, a website that allows you to baptize the dead into homosexuality.

Okay, that’s not true. But neither are Rick Santorum’s claims about forced murder in the Netherlands.