News Tidbits

New York Times: In the DeMint Era at Heritage, a Shift From Policy to Politics

Huffington Post: Virginia Republican Says A Pregnant Woman Is Just A 'Host,' Though 'Some Refer To Them As Mothers'

Detroit Free Press: Michigan pastors speak out against gay marriage on eve of lesbian adoption trial

Windy City Media Group: 'Conversion therapy' ban proposed for Illinois

Commentary Tidbits

Truth Wins Out: G. Craige Lewis: The Most Dangerous Preacher in the Black Church

O-blog-dee-o-blog-da: Hatemonger Scott Lively Invited to Debate Gay Rights at Prestigious Oxford Union

God Discussion: New legal services site launched to protect religious organizations from 'dark legal clouds gathering across our nation'

Buzzfeed: Are Young Evangelicals Sick Of Sexual Politics?

Esquire: A Gentle Reminder About Rick Santorum

Buzzfeed: French Anti-Gay Marriage Movement Is The Toast Of American Culture Warriors

Washington Post: Jim DeMint: Conservative ideas need a new message

Commentary Tidbits

Alternet: 5 Dumbest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories About the United Nations

Think Progress: Liberty Counsel: Gays Are Damaging To Society ‘Just Like Smoking Or Drug Addiction’

New York Times: Santorum Strikes Again

Mother Jones: Jim DeMint Is Resigning: Here Are His 7 Craziest Moments

Right Wing Watch: The Smearing of Planned Parenthood Reaches a New Low

Religion Dispatches: Failing at Politics, Bishops Turn to Prayer

News Tidbits

Gaystar News: Republican Senator Marco Rubio says homosexuality is a sin but he doesn't judge

NPR: Sen. Jim DeMint Leaving Congress To Run Heritage Foundation

NBC News: West Point cadet quits, cites 'criminal' behavior of officers

Baltimore Sun: HRC says Maryland Marriage Alliance should return $10K check from "white supremacist"

al-Arabiya News: U.S. church criticized for planning to host Muslim convention

Christianity Today: Exodus International Fragments Over Focus

Commentary Tidbits

San Diego Gay and Lesbian News: Rights or righteousness? Seeking common ground on sexual-identity issues in church and society

AlterNet: At Religious Right Forum, GOP Candidates Weep and Proselytize

No Longer Quivering: How Modesty Made Me Fat

Ms. Magazine: A Message about Birth Control from the 71 Percent

The New Civil Rights Movement: DeMint To Obama: Stop Promoting Human Rights Protections For LGBT Communities Outside The United States

Think Progress: New FRC Pamphlet Obsesses Over ‘Homosexual Conduct,’ Ignores Gay People

Salon: Mitt Romney: Mormon enforcer

Commentary Tidbits

Think Progress: Family Research Council Blames Unmarried Fathers, Postmodernism for Child Sex Trafficking

Think Progress: Jim DeMint's Theory of Relativity: "The Bigger Government Gets, the Smaller God Gets"

Right Wing Watch: Glenn Beck: Religious Right Friend or Foe?

Media Matters: Beck On Japan Earthquake: "There's A Message Being Sent" From God

Religion Dispatches: Jesus Hates Taxes: Biblical Capitalism Created Fertile Anti-Union Soil

RH Reality Check: Anti-Choice Forces Adopt In-Your-Face Tactics and the Danger to Women is Real

Box Turtle Bulletin: Christianity Today: 2009 Kampala Anti-Gay Conference Goals Were “Therapeutic”

Mother Jones: Gingrich Courts Incendiary Pastor Renounced by McCain in '08

Talk to Action: Rushdoony's Theocratic Libertarianism at Work in the Nation's Statehouses

Psychology Today: "E Pluribus Unum" becomes controversial
(Hat tip to Freak Out Nation)

News Tidbits

WDBJ 7: Ten Commandments Goes Back Up in Giles County Schools

Minnesota Independent: At Christian Book-Signing, Pawlenty Says He's "Seriously Considering" 2012 Bid

Beliefnet: Court Says Religious Knowledge Test Improper in Asylum Case

Politico: DeMint Joins CPAC Boycott

The Daily Texan: Conservative Christians divorce more, study says

NPR: Southern Baptist Leader Leaves Mosque Coalition

Pink News: Christian hotel owners to appeal ruling

Ms. Magazine: 38th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

New York Times: Across Country, Lawmakers Push Abortion Curbs

CNN: Pastor Joel Osteen: Homosexuality is "a sin"

Sioux City Journal: Free Bibles provided for women in crisis

Pink Paper: Anglican leaders to boycott meeting because of gay-friendly US church

Google News: Hawaii Senate ends daily chamber prayers

(Hat tip to Godless Girl for the last article)