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Funding faith-based organizations:

• Lieberman may back faith initiative bill | Senator might co-sponsor legislation (The Washington Post)
• Lieberman hails religion's rising role in American public life (The Washington Times)
• Ye of little faith? In God, not the government, they trust | Some religious leaders have doubts that the bureaucracy can deliver federal funds without strings attached. (Los Angeles Times)
• Groups list faith-based points of contention, agreement | Statement says religious groups and government can work together. Just how is the question. (Religion News Service/Beliefnet)
• Alan Dershowitz, Ralph Reed swap verbal punches on church-state issue | The president's plan to fund religious groups takes center stage in a Portland debate between political opposites (The Oregonian, Portland)
• DiIulios gave income to charity | Point man on community service and his wife have contributed 10 percent of after-tax income, hope to raise it to 25 percent (Associated Press)
• Debating faith-based programs | Just as some liberals think religious speech should be banned from the public sphere because it may make nonbelievers uncomfortable, some conservatives think antireligious speech should not be allowed to offend believers' sensibilities. (Cathy Young, The Boston Globe)

Life ethics:

• Lawmaker's proposal may turn death penalty into a tax issue | Illinois bill proposes that state income taxes paid by objectors to the death penalty be redirected into common school fund (Chicago Tribune)
• Alleged mob boss runs Chicago abortion clinic | Hidden FBI camera caught Anthony Centracchio handling wads of alleged bribe money, having sex with employee (Chicago Sun-Times)
• President boosts all abortion activists | One month after the White House passed into antiabortion hands, activists on both sides say President Bush has rejuvenated their respective causes, generating hope in one camp and grit in the other (The Record, Bergen, New York)
• High Court Allows Abortion Clinic Regulations | Supreme Court declined without comment to review the licensing requirements for South Carolina clinics (Reuters)

"Decolonizing" Hawaii:

• Methodist magazine calls for "decolonization and total independence" of Hawaii | Mark Tooley says magazine and its board "are an embarrassment to the United Methodist Church and should be put out of business." (Associated Press)
• Hawaiians yearn still for freedom | Church plays role in offering hope, seeking justice and reconciliation (Rev. Dr. Kaleo Patterson, Christian Social Action)

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