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Yep, I definitely do know that Gingrich is Roman Catholic.

I'm going to “hold my fire” on that issue because what I say could get me into a great deal of trouble. Jim Robinson has asked that we not “bash” Gingrich and the statements I would make about his conversion to Roman Catholicism would not be in accord with that request. We're conservatives, we believe in private property, and owners have the right to set the rules for how their property will be used.

For whatever it's worth, I've read enough about Gingrich's personal faith and repentance to believe that it may very well be sincere.

My decision on which candidate to support for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination was made only after a **LOT** of internal questioning.

The only Protestant left in this race is Ron Paul, a man who says his personal faith will not affect his work as president. That makes him unacceptable to me, though I am very much aware that he has personal ties with a number of people in the right wing of my own Calvinist circles and I'm not at all sure that his libertarianism did not develop after personal interaction with theonomists like Gary North. I might be able to support a Mormon under some circumstances, but not a flip flopper like Mitt Romney who cannot be trusted to be consistently pro-life, especially on the critical issue of appointing Supreme Court justices.

By contrast, both Gingrich and Santorum say they have a rather strongly traditional Christian worldview and regard America as being in direct conflict with militant Islam.

That's important. Both men are on the right side of the culture war. The question is whether Gingrich or Santorum would be better leaders of the culture war, and I think a reasonable case can be made for either man. I think Santorum would do a better job in fighting the culture wars domestically, but if we end up with a President Gingrich, the Democrats may very well find out to their horror that he's going to lead America on a new crusade against Islamofascism.

That would not be a bad thing in my book — the Islamic radicals have already declared war on Western civilization, and while we can probably work with moderate and liberal Muslims, the Islamofascists must be defeated if our civilization is to survive.