With the latest "Twilight" movie experts are busy spotting religious themes in the girl-vampire-werewolf saga. Specifically Mormon themes. While fans root for Team Edward or Team Jacob, rivals for Bella's love, experts are saying the real winner is Team Mormon.  A new study from the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that while converts are more religious than others, they are not as different as people think.  One denomination after another is stressed -- possibly to a breaking point for some believers -- by furious battles over the roles of openly gay people in church life and ministry. Can they be clergy or bishops? Can their relationships be blessed? And the newest protest symbol by gay activists is a kiss.  Supporters of gay rights in Mormon-dominated Salt Lake City called Sunday for a kiss-in protest in front of the Church headquarters to protest the arrest of a gay couple for "inappropriate behavior" -- kissing and holding hands on a stroll by Main Street Plaza. The plaza has been owned by the Church for several years. Can a church enforce a 'no kissing' zone in the center of the city?  Some enthusiastic Mormons have evidently "baptised" Obama's mother, the late Stanley Ann Dunham who died in 1955. Dunham grew up as a Christian and reared her children in no particular religion. Mormons consider proxy baptisms to be a free will offering to a dead person's soul to find salvation, not a forced "conversion." But lots of folks don't see it that way.  "A month before his inauguration," USA TODAY Washington bureau chief Susan Page writes this mornings, "Americans choose Barack Obama as the man they admire most in the world, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. It's the first time a...  I'm fascinated -- and horrified -- by scathing comments on recent Mormon-related stories.
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