The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Faith

The Democratic National Convention is the intersection of politics and religion for one pastor. Fernando Cabrera, a New York City councilman and pastor of the New Life Church in the Bronx, is serving as a delegate this week, but he is not supportive of the whole of the party’s adopted platform. Cabrera decries the President’s and the party’s support of gay marriage. [WORLD Magazine]

Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the religious and political leader of the Unification Church, died Monday. [CNN]

Desmond Tutu, the retired Anglican Church’s archbishop of Africa, says Tony Blair and George W. Bush should “answer for their actions” for their roles in the war in Iraq. [WaPo]

A Texas judge ruled that praying for God to hurt someone is legal. [USA Today]