Outside the Beltway

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

A social conservative attempts to argue that same-sex marriage is a threat to liberty, and fails miserably.

The star of a controversial reality show about polygamy is suing to have Utah’s law that makes his living arrangement illegal struck down.

Jeff Jacoby claims that marriage cannot be redefined.

A new Gallup poll discovers something rather obvious, but there’s still a lesson for the GOP.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, says fundamentalist Christians are a far bigger problem than Muslims. And, no, he’s not anti-religion.

The Netherlands is considering a new animal cruelty law that would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.

Why isn’t the GOP calling out religious bigotry from one of its candidates?

Rick Perry makes a valid point about bringing the economy back to Biblical principles.

Some people still think Mitt Romney’s religion is a relevant issue.

Left-wing religious groups are firing salvos against the Republican Party on the basis of Ayn Rand’s “anti-Christian” influence.

Tim Pawlenty said in a speech on Friday that America needs to “turn toward God.”

The Rapture has no biblical foundation and was made up by a 15-year-old girl in 1830.

In a column about American Exceptionalism, a newspaper columnist makes a bizarre historical analogy.

America’s war colleges have some problems but we can’t close them.

On Palm Sunday, French Christians stormed a museum and slashed Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ

The duty to defend “hateful, extremely disrespectful, and enormously intolerant” expression.