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George Mason University (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) If you believe in traditional, natural marriage, then you are “piece of useless trash” in the opinion of an assistant admissions officer at George Mason University , a Virginia public school just 15 miles from the nation’s capital. The National Organization for Marriage wants GMU to disavow Andrew Bunting’s comments so as not to give prospective applicants with conservative, Christian, heterosexual values the idea they aren’t welcome. “We want the university to publicly repudiate the remarks,” NOM’s Joseph Grabowski said. “Right now, the clear implication of the comments, when they come from the admissions officer, is that they won’t be welcome if they hold conservative views on marriage.” Bunting, an assistant admission officer at the university, was responding to NOM’s triumphant blog posted the day after the federal election, which “heartily” congratulated Donald Trump and his team on their “incredible win.” In the blog,...

One year into the era of Pope Francis, a new poll has found that a broad majority of American Catholics say he represents a major change in direction for the church, and a change for the better. But his popularity has not inspired more Americans to attend Mass, go to confession or identify as Catholic — a finding that suggests that so far, the much-vaunted “Francis effect” is influencing attitudes, but not behavior. Francis is more popular among American Catholics than Pope Benedict XVI was in February of last year, when he suddenly resigned, according to the poll, which is to be released Thursday by the Pew Research Center . But Francis has not reached the sky-high ratings that Pope John Paul II commanded at the height of his papacy in the 1990s, when he was credited with helping to bring down the Communist government in his native Poland. Francis, who draws giddy teenagers to his Wednesday audiences and generates Twitter traffic with every public remark, has clearly invigorate...