- Dan Gilgoff wonders why Religious Right groups were all but silent about Tony Dungy’s invitation to join the Obama administration’s faith advisory council.
- Pam notes that Rick Warren is now coming under attack from right-winger for his “betrayal” on marriage.
- Andrew Sullivan continues to hammer away at the National Review’s anti-marriage equality editorial.
- Think Progress reports that Texas State Rep. Betty Brown thinks Asian-Americans should change their names because they’re too hard to pronounce.
- Steve Benen asks a good question: what is Newt Gingrich talking about?
- Finally, as a follow-up to our earlier post about Morality in Media’s Bob Peters, David Corn digs up this fascinating fact:
It might be tempting to dismiss Peters and Morality in Media as marginal, but this group did receive federal funding from 2005 through 2007. The money supported a Morality in Media project, ObscenityCrimes.org, which paid two retired law enforcement officers to review citizen complaints about obscenity on the Internet and to forward the best leads to the US Justice Department for possible prosecution. A total of $300,000 was provided to Morality in Media through two earmarks Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) placed into spending bills, according to Peters. And a portion of that money went to cover Peters’ salary. As The New York Times reported in 2007, no obscenity prosecutions had resulted from the Morality in Media’s obscenity-tracking work.
