After Atlanta pastor Louie Giglio bowed out of giving the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration for saying un-PC things about gays, there are at least 72 people in these United States who are trying to draft our pal Father Jim Martin to step in. He’s got our vote.

(GLAAD has its own list of gay-friendly possibilities, including the “monk” (???) Jim Martin; HuffPo and ThinkProgress offer their suggestions here.)

File this under Things We Already Knew: Roy Bourgeois, the Catholic priest who was defrocked for his support of women’s ordination, is now defrocked — officially.

And this, from the Dept. of Things That Make You Go Hmmm: there’s growing demand at the nation’s kosher food banks and yes, social workers say, there are poor and hungry Jews in the U.S. Seriously, read it. It’s a good one.

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