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MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. -- Mitt Romney's campaign is blasting out automated phone calls that feature a recording of former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania raising questions about John McCain's "temperament" -- a hot-button issue that Romney himself has assiduously avoided. Santorum said in an interview today that he wrote the script himself, and the campaign deferred to him and approved it.

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BIRMINGHAM, England -- Former President Jimmy Carter said the Southern Baptist Convention is led by men who are "devout and sincere," but want "to keep women in their place." Carter led Sunday's Bible study at the Baptist World Congress in Birmingham, England, which was attended by an estimated 12,000 Baptists from around the world. He lamented the absence of the Southern Baptist Convention, which dropped out of the Baptist World Alliance last year, citing alleged liberal tendencies. But the former president said Southern Baptists and other conservative churches misuse Scripture to deny women an equal opportunity to serve as ministers.