​Now that Mitt Romney has put the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints back on the map, let's find out where one is most likely to encounter a real live Mormon. In Washington, Adams County boasts the highest percentage of Mormons (12.73) among any of the 39 counties. Garfield, Lincoln, and Wahkiakum counties have 0 percent. In King County, it's 2.33 percent, while Salt Lake City is 56 percent. Jump here to see the map.

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Bethke

​Updated, with Bethke's response, below.

Jeff Bethke insists he doesn't want to be famous but his 15 minutes in the limelight appear to have been extended. His "Hate Religion, Love Jesus" video is still viraling upwards since we wrote about the Mars Hill Church member five days ago. But the Seattle artist's biggest boost came from a Thursday piece in The New York Times by conservative columnist David Brooks - even though Brooks took a negative view of Bethke's video claims:

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Bethke

​Not a lot of people in Seattle, apparently, have heard of 22-year-old Jefferson (Jeff) Bethke. But since the local artist posted his YouTube video just three weeks ago, he's become an online sensation with his own line of T-shirts. As of today, a worldwide audience has clicked in 18 million times to watch and argue over the Mars Hill Church member's "spoken word" poem on "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus," below.

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​Alaska Airlines won't be comin' in on a wing and a prayer any longer. Beginning Feb. 1, passengers will have to settle for just the wing. Call it separation of church and airline. For 30 years, customers could count on getting a little prayer card on their meals trays. For some, especially the Nervous Nellies, it was a comfort. Nothing like a prayer card ("I will praise God's name in song...") when the turbulence strikes.

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​UPDATE: Pastor Ken Hutcherson isn't backing off his wild comment, though he is amending it slightly. "What I said is that she ought to change her name to Joan Wilkes Booth." Glad he could clear that up.....As a linebacker with the Dallas Cowboys and San Diego Chargers in the 1970s, Pastor Ken Hutcherson undoubtably took his share of body blows and hits to the head. Possibly that could account for his latest incendiary comment about gay marriage. Here's what the senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Redmond had to say about Gov. Chris Gregoire's support for the measure:

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Pete Kuhns

​Joe Fuiten, one of the region's leading evangelical pastors and a former organizer for George W. Bush, weighed in this week on the gay marriage bill supported by Governor Chris Gregoire. Yeah, he's against it--to put it very, very mildly.

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​On September 22, 2011, Greg Morgan, a born again nuclear safety engineer at Hanford, made a visit to the Wave of Paria, a twisting sandstone formation in northern Arizona and came away convinced that the unusual geologic phenomenon is evidence of Noah's flood.

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​It's easy to pile on Seattle megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll and his crazypants ramblings about how practicing yoga is a one-way ticket to hell. But Driscoll isn't alone. In fact, the Pope's former personal demon banisher agrees: Yoga = Satan.

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​David Divis says he would have climbed the ladder much higher at the Washington State Patrol if it weren't for two pesky personal characteristics: Being white and being Mormon.

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​The St. Petersburg Times has a big feature this weekend on the shameless "money machine" that is Scientology. Example number one: A Seattle couple who gave seven figures to the church only to be later be written up for "insufficient generosity."

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