Earlier this week, Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, a Tea Party favorite who ousted veteran Senator Dick Lugar in the primary last spring, spurred yet another firestorm of debate when he declared that pregnancies conceived in rape are “something that God intended to happen.” …
The question, of course, is what Americans really think about the relationship between unwanted pregnancy, abortion, and God’s will. And how do religious Americans—especially the white evangelical Protestants who anchor Mourdock’s base and comprise nearly 4-in-10 of Romney’s supporters—reconcile their theological convictions with public policy? [cont.]
Robert Jones, Public Religion Research Institute (The Monkey Cage)