{"id":46,"date":"2012-06-25T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2012-06-25T05:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T11:00:54","slug":"the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong>Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/bowser-beer-for-dogs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+laughingsquid+(Laughing+Squid)\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">now you can<\/a> (although it doesn\u2019t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we continue to wait for the Supreme Court\u2019s decision on health care reform, (hopefully not breathlessly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/22\/us\/politics\/new-timing-hinted-on-supreme-court-health-care-ruling.html?pagewanted=all\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">since there are signs<\/a> that it could come down as late as Wednesday or Thursday), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2012\/06\/18\/any-court-health-care-decision-unlikely-to-please\/?src=rss_main\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pew Research Center predicts<\/a> that no matter what they decide, Americans aren\u2019t going to like it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/24\/us-usa-campaign-healthcare-idUSBRE85N01M20120624\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a new poll shows<\/a> that most Americans oppose the health care reform law, even though they favor most of the provisions in the law.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/research\/2012\/04\/millennial-values-survey-2012\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">nearly half (48%) of younger Millennials<\/a> (age 18-24) live at home is usually greeted with concern, but the \u201cboomerang generation\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/23\/moving_home_the_new_key_to_success\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">could be making a huge difference<\/a> in revitalizing their economically distressed hometowns.<\/p>\n<p>After a semester without the Mexican-American studies program offered in Tucson\u2019s public schools, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/06\/24\/155644119\/first-year-without-controversial-class-in-ariz-ends?ft=1&amp;f=1001\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">hard feelings linger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Christianity Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/july-august\/marco-rubio-faith-of-many-colors.html?paging=off\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Florida Sen. Marco Rubio discusses his religious beliefs<\/a>, adding that he doesn\u2019t endorse criticisms of President Obama\u2019s faith. Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/juneweb-only\/barack-obama-evangelical-in-chief.html?start=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">another piece for Christianity Today explores<\/a> whether Obama counts as an evangelical.\u00a0Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/research\/2012\/05\/may-rns-2012-research\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fewer than 4-in-10 (36%) voters<\/a> correctly identify Barack Obama as Protestant or just Christian.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were under the misapprehension that traveling on a campaign bus was a jolly good time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/news-politics\/blogs\/death-race\/2012\/06\/the-romney-bus-rolls-on-and-on-and-on.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GQ is here to remind you<\/a> that political journalism is all about greasy food, dusty roads, and squabbling over MacBook chargers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Want to receive the Morning Buzz as a daily email?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/visitor.r20.constantcontact.com\/manage\/optin\/ea?v=00147Jgk4c64VM0OjMchp7XFQ==\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sign up here<\/a>. For updates and coverage throughout the day, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PublicReligion\" shape=\"rect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/publicreligion\" shape=\"rect\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=SDU_oHeFfBw:3Kg3Qdrkuls:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=SDU_oHeFfBw:3Kg3Qdrkuls:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/SDU_oHeFfBw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, now you can (although it doesn&#8217;t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans). As we continue to wait for&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35,23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-latinohispanic","category-millennials","category-morning-buzz"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, now you can (although it doesn&#8217;t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans). As we continue to wait for... more\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, now you can (although it doesn&#8217;t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans). As we continue to wait for... more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Public Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-06-25T11:00:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Amelia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amelia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/\",\"name\":\"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-25T11:00:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-06-25T11:00:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#\/schema\/person\/e44f33f88b7f7938ae2d6307e598c34b\"},\"description\":\"Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, now you can (although it doesn&#8217;t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans). As we continue to wait for... more\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/\",\"name\":\"Public Religion\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#\/schema\/person\/e44f33f88b7f7938ae2d6307e598c34b\",\"name\":\"Amelia\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af12408320a1baef9fe4e5794829cbf4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af12408320a1baef9fe4e5794829cbf4?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Amelia\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/author\/amelia\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012","description":"Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, now you can (although it doesn&#8217;t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans). As we continue to wait for... more","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012","og_description":"Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, now you can (although it doesn&#8217;t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans). As we continue to wait for... more","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/","og_site_name":"Public Religion","article_published_time":"2012-06-25T11:00:54+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"}],"author":"Amelia","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Amelia","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/","name":"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-06-25T11:00:54+00:00","dateModified":"2012-06-25T11:00:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#\/schema\/person\/e44f33f88b7f7938ae2d6307e598c34b"},"description":"Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI\u2019s morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data \u2013 because what doesn\u2019t liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers? On a hot, lazy afternoon, have you ever wanted to share a bottle of beer with your dog? Well, now you can (although it doesn&#8217;t seem like the brew is particularly delicious for humans). As we continue to wait for... more","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/the-morning-buzz-june-25-2012\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Morning Buzz | June 25, 2012"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/","name":"Public Religion","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#\/schema\/person\/e44f33f88b7f7938ae2d6307e598c34b","name":"Amelia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af12408320a1baef9fe4e5794829cbf4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/af12408320a1baef9fe4e5794829cbf4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Amelia"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/publicreligion.org"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/author\/amelia\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}