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HomeCommentaryTuesday's Religion News Roundup: Koshergate, RIP compassionate conservatism; Boykin bounced

Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: Koshergate, RIP compassionate conservatism; Boykin bounced

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As Floridians head to the polls today, Newt Gingrich has been subtly playing the religion card. On Monday,Gingrich accused Mitt Romney of being “extraordinarily insensitive” to religionas governor of Massachusetts because he planned cut to Medicaid funding to Jewish and Catholic health care facilities.

Driving the point home in God's Waiting Room (aka Florida), Gingrich noted thatone program targeted for cuts had served kosher meals to elderly Jews.

Buzzfeed illustrates the photo with a hilariously inapt photo of Romney cutting into a pig. Get those editors an Old Testament! Romney's response: “It's really sad. In some respects I think it's painfully revealing that (Gingrich) is having a really hard time.”  

Who says“compassionate conservatism”is dead?  

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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