Religious Conversions Happen for Social Reasons

Some of you may have heard of Lea Libresco's recent conversion to Catholicism. A lot of people have been posting about it, but Chris Hallquist has the best take I've seen on the topic:

I was briefly puzzled when I heard about atheist blogger Leah Libresco’s conversion to Catholicism. But I was immediately un-puzzled when I read Dan Fincke’s post on it, which reminded me that “the very premise of Libresco’s blog was that she was romantically involved with a Catholic.” Oh yeah. Duh.