Charts of the day: Okay, we’re stumped

First, consider the results of a survey of American attitudes from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life:

Next, consider this from Gallup, conducted a month after the Pew survey:

We leave the explanations to you, dear reader.

Quote of the day: If it’s rape, relax. God wills it

Anti-abortion Indiana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock in a Tuesday night debate with Democratic opponent Joe Donnelly, via the BBC:

“I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realise that life is that gift from God.”

“And, I think, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.”