Daily Kos: Jed Lewison reports that Fox News personality Mike Huckabee is thinking about running for president (again) in 2016. We will no doubt hear much about this over the next little while.  But whatever Huckabee says or does, I will always remember his cheap demagoguery following the mass murder of elementary school children in Newtown, CT.  Huckabee not only sought to blame the massacre on how we navigate matters of religion in the public schools, but to head off future school shootings, he suggested that people who think like him be deployed to hector school children about learning to fear "a holy God in judgment."  

The Guardian reports that a Scottish Catholic priest is suing the Church for wrongful termination of employment. It seems that the Church waged a vilification campaign against him after he spoke out publicly about the problem of sex abuse in the church. The Bishop then fired him while he was being treated for cancer.

BBC reports that controversy is growing over the 1994 book To Train Up a Child by Michael & Debi Pearl, which "is widely seen as the most extreme of the publications produced by conservative Christians in the US who advocate corporal punishment. The book, which is said to have sold hundreds of thousands of copies, is widely used by homeschooling parents in the U.S. The book is published by the Pearls' organization, No Greater Joy Ministries, which is attached to the church where Michael Pearl is a pastor in Pleasantville, Tennessee.