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Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Church's pride in Cain outweighs differences
Where it matters most — down in the soul — Herman Cain is one of them. Always will be.
Time: The de facto religious test in presidential politics
Officially, the United States has no religious test for elected officials.
Houston Chronicle: Faith and science: Can we find common ground?
Faith and science. For centuries, the two domains have intersected, diverged, conflicted and co-existed.
Wash. Post: Mitt Romney takes on Mormon ‘cult’ comments and the religious test for office
It was only a few seconds, but at Tuesday night’s debate, Republican presidential hopeful (and Mormon) Mitt Romney gave some of his most extensive religious comments yet of the 2012 presidential campaign, saying, “That idea that we should choose people based on their religion is the one that I find to be most troubling.”
Catholic Culture: Needed: a sense of urgency about religious freedom in US foreign policy
Not a single Christian church remains standing in Afghanistan.
ABC News: Is the Tea Party a Religious Movement? ‘Anthem’ Invokes God, Judgment Day
If there’s an anthem for the Tea Party, it’s Krista Branch’s song “I am America,” her fans say.
CNN: Pray for the President? Yes thou shalt
Republican presidential contender Rick Perry recently urged social conservatives to pray for President Barack Obama.
WSJ: The cult of anti-Mormonism
Here's some advice for Republican candidates appearing at Tuesday's presidential debate at Dartmouth College.
Heritage Foundation: Religious freedom and a pastor in Iran
The world recognized an international symbol of the hunger for political freedom in the summer of 2009 when a young Iranian woman, Neda Agha-Soltan, was fatally shot during the Tehran uprising.
AP: An Interview with David Masci About the Ministerial Exception
AP Radio Religion Editor Steve Coleman talks to Senior Researcher David Masci about a Supreme Court case involving a legal doctrine known as the "ministerial exception."
Christian Post: Joel Osteen on CNN: I Could Vote for a Muslim or Jewish President
Joel Osteen offers a strong statement of support for the Israeli people in an interview with CNN's Pierce Morgan Tuesday night, in which the Lakewood Church pastor also discusses whether he would vote for a Jewish or Muslim presidential candidate.
First Things: Whither marriage?

Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral or cultural differences between homosexual couples and heterosexual couples, they presume, and therefore limiting marriage to heterosexual couples amounts to discrimination.

Christian Post: Supreme Court to hear case on church authority, hiring rights
One of the most important religious cases disputed in years, involving the separation of church and state, will soon come before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Korea Times: Opinion: Religious persecution on the rise
History was supposed to have ended.
AFP: Christians top target of abuse: Vatican
Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican's foreign minister told the UN summit on Tuesday.
Catholic Culture: Supreme Court case could affect suits against Church for discimination
A case pending before the US Supreme Court could produce an important new precedent regarding the right of religious groups to set standards for their ministers and other employees.
Salon: How Rick Perry courts the Zionist vote
At a press conference in New York on Tuesday billed "pro-Israel," Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry was flanked by Orthodox Jewish leaders.
Huffington Post: Surveying U.S. and French Muslims
The results of two interesting surveys were released recently: one by the Pew Research Center on U.S. Muslims' lives and attitudes and one by IFOP (the leading French market research and opinion poll institute) on French Muslims and the evolution of their socio-religious attitudes over the past two decades.
Wash. Post: In GOP race, public prayers seem more political than personal
Among the Republican candidates running for president in 2012, there’s been a whole lot of praying in public.
Al Jazeera: Arabs and Muslims carve a place in the U.S.
"USA! USA!" chanted the mob of hundreds as it tried to march towards Bridgeview's Mosque Foundation just southwest of Chicago.
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