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• Ruling gives Scouts leeway on hiring gays | Panel of Illinois Appellate Court says Boy Scouts may not reject gay applicants for clerical jobs and other positions that are not high profile or policymaking. (Chicago Tribune)
• Mormon rules prevail at Salt Lake City mall | Same-sex couples can't hold hands on church-owned block (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Gays protest choice for GOP faith summit | Anaheim minister Lou Sheldon once urged quarantine of AIDS patients (San Francisco Chronicle)
• British Christians claim foot-and-mouth is God's wrath over gays | Moreton Christian Assembly newsletter blames outbreak on lowering the homosexual age of consent (Ananova)
• Sociologists challenge data on gay parenting | Sexual orientation has more of an impact on children than previously reported, say USC professors who reexamined earlier studies. (Los Angeles Times)

Homosexuality and the church:

• Gays protest commencement speaker at Iliff School of Theology | Episcopal Bishop Jerry Winterrowd says only celibate homosexuals can serve as priests in Colorado Episcopal churches. (The Denver Post)
• Anglican Church of Uganda investigates gay rights bishop | Archbishop's spokesman says unnamed bishop is "preaching positively about homosexuality and the youth are his target" (The New Vision, Kampala, Uganda)
• 'Cliques of gay priests are dividing Church' | British documentary says priesthood is becoming a "gay profession" like hairdressing. (The Daily Telegraph)
• Also: Catholic Church alarmed that priesthood is becoming a 'gay profession' (The Independent)
• Also: More than 1,000 ordain ELCA woman who breaks the rules | More than 200 clergy members, from Roman Catholics to Presbyterians and Baptists—even a rabbi and a Buddhist—crowded six-deep around Hill. (Star Tribune, Minneapolis)
• Methodists tackle homosexuality issue | Church's ecumenical and Christian unity division asks for $200,000 to launch "discussions." (Religion News Service/Los Angeles Times)
• Doctrine on gays splits church along property lines | Appeal in Bermuda could affect Canada's United Church (The National Post)

Prayer:

God speed: Americans' hectic lives are reflected in way they pray | Many Americans pray just like they eat: on the run, between their kids' soccer games and trips to the supermarket. Some pray more in their cars than in their homes. (The Dallas Morning News)

Americans mark National Day of Prayer (UPI)

Denominational battles:

• Conservative Presbyterians fault leaders, urge reforms | Claim failure to proclaim Christ as humanity's savior (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• Southwestern Baptist Seminary professors being forced to resign | Old Testament, ethics faculty members refused to sign new Baptist Faith and Message (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Also: Seminary profs leave over faith statement (UPI)
• Female ordination pits rector against Episcopal bishop | Other bishops charge Washington's female leader of "blatant discrimination" against conservatives (The Washington Times)
• Also: Full coverage of controversy at Classical Anglican Net News
• Balancing act between elderly elders and happy-clappy clergy | Church of Scotland considers putting an age limit on ministers (Stewart Lamont, The Scotsman, Edinburgh)
• Church in debt crisis as income dries up | Church of England dioceses will be plunged £11 million (US$15.7 million) into the red within two years, according to confidential figures which reveal that the Church's financial crisis is deeper than previously feared. (The Daily Telegraph)

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