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• Church and lawsuit | When it comes to government funding of church-run entities, President Thomas Jefferson took a few tentative steps more than 200 years ago. President Bush just made what he hopes will be many thousands more. (The Christian Science Monitor)

More politics and law:

• Christian, but no longer a powerful Coalition | Rocked by financial debt, lawsuits and the loss of experienced political leaders, the Christian Coalition has become but a pale imitation of its once powerful self (The Washington Times)
• Religious Tolerance 101 | "We have no position on the morality of artificial contraception - but, as Egan said yesterday: 'The government must not interfere in matters of religious faith … to do so is un-American.'" (Editorial, New York Post)
• Wyoming Supreme Court: State must allow religious waivers from inoculations | Justices "confident in our presumption that parents act in the best interests of their children's physical, as well as their spiritual, health" (Associated Press/Freedom Forum)
• Ten Commandments hang in courtroom | ACLU files federal suit to remove them (WEWS, Cleveland, Ohio)
• Bill would require Mississippi public schools to display 'In God We Trust' | ACLU objects, blah blah blah same song different verse (Associated Press/Freedom Forum)
• Putting their faith in new religious act | Bay Area groups try to protect space, practices (San Francisco Chronicle)
• California appeals panel: Christian club wrongfully barred from school (Associated Press/Freedom Forum)
• Colorado's debatable divorce bill | State legislature is considering divorcing parents to get a year's counseling, but a critic suggests only 6 hours are needed to educate (CBS News)
• Irish woman sues priest for church fall | Woman was getting out of a pew to take communion when a kneeling board fell down and trapped her foot. She is seeking £25,000 ($36,715) (The Irish Times)
• British school told to reinstate religion in assemblies | Replacing God with humanism is breaking the law, says Department of Education (The Telegraph, London)
• Vatican radio charge fails | Court officials unable to serve Vatican Radio leaders with papers notifying them of the hearing. (The Times, London)

Britain:

• Catholic bar to throne 'must be ended' (The Guardian, London)
• Sacked choirmaster accepts £7,500 after 'living in sin' row (Ananova)
• Earlier: Church ousts pastor who ousted organist for affair (Christianity Today Weblog, second item)

Bones idenfied as those of Madalyn Murray O'Hair and relatives:

• Bodies identified as those of atheist O'Hair and kin | The five-year hunt for the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair is over, a forensics expert said, confirming that bones dug up at a remote ranch in Texas were those of Ms. O'Hair and two of her family members. (The New York Times)
• Remains of missing atheist identified | More than five years after Madalyn Murray O'Hair and two relatives mysteriously disappeared, forensics tests have confirmed that human remains found in January in a shallow grave are those of the missing trio. (Associated Press)

Pop culture:

• Taking God for a spin | Carman in New York for a free concert at Madison Square Garden, but who the h*** is he? (New York Post)
• Study finds Protestant pastors often tune out Christian TV (Religion News Service/Star Tribune)
• Norwegian Christians urged to slam BigBrother TV show | The Christian weekly Norge I Dag (Norway Today) will issue stickers to its readers with the phone numbers of the nation's television stations so they can ring in and complain about "trash-TV" (Aftenposten, Oslo)

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March (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45