Religion

From The Michigan Messenger:
Rep. Bart Stupak [D-Mich.] has reconsidered earlier legislation that would have given several acres of Coast Guard property in Cheboygan [Mich.] to a Christian school free of charge after constitutional law scholars pointed out that the land transfer would violate the First Amendment separation between church and state.

Political candidates often invoke God and spirituality on the campaign trail, but Rev. Richard Killmer, executive director of the National Religious Campaign against Torture, would like more pols to live up to those professed beliefs once they’re in office. President Obama, for example, has spoken eloquently of his own religious awakening, and of the importance [...]

The Michigan Messenger’s Ed Brayton reports a convoluted tale involving all of the above. Long story short, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) — whose name you may know because he lives at the GOP sex scandal-connected “C Street” house — has introduced a bill to transfer a piece of U.S. Coast Guard-owned property in Cheboygan, Mich.,  [...]

The Michigan Messenger caught up today with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), who lives at the “C Street” house made famous of late by several current and former residents, including Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) and former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) — all of whom have found themselves in the middle of adultery [...]

When the Capitol Visitor Center opened to the public in December, the $621 million pricetag raised plenty of eyebrows, not least because the cost represented a jump of nearly $360 million above original estimates.
And it’s only going up.

National Review’s managing editor rushes to The Corner to tell readers of a bumper sticker he was “alerted to” by a Texas reader.

BUMPER STICKER OF THE DAY… or at least the best one I have heard of this week: Warning! I’m a Bitter Gun Owner Clinging to His Religion. One should, indeed, be warned.

Really? The “Bittergate” [...]

A small number of conservative groups and 42 bishops are turning the speech into a watershed moment, while obscuring the president’s support among Catholics.

Palin has activated a key component of the Republican coalition. But the progressive evangelicals are also in play.

WASILLA, Alaska — In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, Sunday morning. I ended up being shooed out of the parking lot — but I’ll get to that in a minute.
It felt a bit like a high-school gym or auditorium, with wood floors and [...]