Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

As far as we're concerned, what church Barack Obama chooses to attend in DC is about as important as the brand of mayonnaise he prefers. Some people disagree. What do you think?

For example, many people assume Obama will worship at an African American church as he did in Chicago. But Obama has often quoted Martin Luther King's critique that America's most segregated hour is 11am on Sunday. If the first black president chooses to worship in a predominantly black church, does that call into question whether he really thinks this is a problem or perhaps imply that it's a problem only white people are responsible for fixing? Conversely, if Obama chooses a predominantly white church, many black people in this country will feel abandoned.

Yesterday on The View, the Reverend Mike Huckabee, political loser and sanctimonious miscreant, said something totally astounding: that blacks are more deserving of civil rights than gays because they've endured more violence. Seriously. He said that.

Asked by co-host Joy Behar why it would be bad to do away with the traditional "institution" of marriage, whereas it was fine for blacks to want to do away with the traditional "institution" of segregation, Huckabee responded: "But here is the difference. Bull Connor was hosing people down in the streets of Alabama. John Lewis got his skull cracked on the Selma bridge." Nice talk, REVEREND!

Here's why Mike Huckabee is a disgusting, ignorant hatemonger…

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Prince, with his frilly silk shirts and high heel everything, has long been the victim of rumors about his sexuality, and his libido-infused party jams have helped acquire the Minnesota-born musician a devoted gay fan base. So you can imagine our surprise upon learning that the Purple One, who has for several years been an outspoken Jehovah's Witness, went on a homophobic rant during a recent interview with the New Yorker, saying that, in the past, God came down and wiped out homosexual activity.

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Jay Newman, the pastor of St Mary Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, is asking parishioners who voted for Barack Obama to not present themselves for Communion until they've gone to confession and asked for forgiveness for cooperating with "intrinsic evil," "lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."

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The persecution of "witches" throughout the African continent continues.

Far worse than Thomas Muthee, Sarah Palin's spiritual adviser who famously ran an old lady from his village in Kenya after deeming her evil, is the story of the "child-witches" of Nigeria. Convinced by insane, stupid, greedy clerics that their children are being possessed wholesale by demons, Nigerian parents have taken to abandoning boys and girls as young as five after torturing them for their sins. The innocents who have survived their attacks now clog the West African nation's refuges.

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Unfortunately, you had to know this was coming.

Angered by the news that black voters were a major factor in the success of Prop 8, California's gay marriage ban, some segments of yesterday's anti-Prop 8 protests in LA soon devolved into hateful pits of racism:

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In some areas of the country and in some congregations, you don't play when it comes to picking out your church outfit. Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where the congregation might include fashion glitterati like Bethann Hardison or Andre Leon Talley on any given Sunday, is no exception. The New York Times has a fun slide show of some of the more colorful outfits on display on a recent Sunday.

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Well I'll be! Turns out that not all McCain-Palin rallies are heady hives of sticky-faced clown people calling Barack Obama a terrorist ACORN nigra.
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Colin Powell said a lot during his appearance on Meet the Press Sunday, and the primary takeaway is obviously his endorsement of Barack Obama for president. But something else he said that may get lost in the shuffle is just as important, if not more so. He criticized the GOP for spreading the lie that Obama is a Muslim, but he also spoke at length about the harm that such accusations do to Muslim Americans in this country. He mentioned this photo of Elsheba Khan hugging the Arlington Cemetery gravestone of her son, a Muslim who died at the age of 20 while serving in Iraq. Judging Americans like Khan or her dead son, Kareem, based solely on their religion "is not the way we should be doing it in America," he said.

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John McCain has been commended for that one day last week when he defended Barack Obama twice against claims that the Democratic candidate is scary, not-to-be trusted, and, of course, Arab. But missing in that defense that McCain so generously offered — after being attacked from all sides for his previous failure to do so — was that, in addition to the fact that Obama is neither Muslim nor Arab, Muslims and Arabs should not be feared and shunned.

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September 15th marked the 45th anniversary of a brutal, racially-motivated church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that killed four black girls. I can't help but recall that act of homegrown terrorism when hearing the news that a chemical irritant was sprayed into the children's room of a Dayton, Ohio, mosque Friday. The 300 people inside were celebrating the last 10 days of Ramadan at the time; children and babies were being held in the room while their parents prayed. A child saw two men spraying something into the window before everyone started coughing and tearing and had to leave the building. Police are investigating. [DDN]