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• Ark. vaccination waiver overruled | Exemption, granted only to members of "recognized churches," violates the First Amendment, says judge (Associated Press)
  
  
• Crown and cross stay on police badge | Plans to allow non-Christian officers to wear a badge without the traditional crown and cross insignia have been dropped by the Metropolitan Police (BBC)
  
  
• 'Under God' stays in pledge | Florida school board rejects objection to religious reference (Associated Press)
  
  
• Attorney asks judge to ban lawyer's Bible | A judge should forbid the 18-year-old from "displaying a Bible in front of the jury" because of the "possibility that jurors may consider this as character evidence," according to documents filed by prosecutors Monday at the Manatee County Courthouse (The Bradenton [Fla.] Herald)
  
  
• Alternative police badge for Muslims | London's Metropolitan Police Force is to drop the crown and cross from its insignia for non-Christian officers because of objections from a Muslim recruit (BBC)

Politics:

• State lottery proponent ribs the issue | Commercials mock Christians' opposition to gambling (The Tennessean)
  
  
• Faith healing | The shield of religious liberty is being transformed into a sword of religious power. (Wendy Kaminer, The American Prospect)
  
  
• Bill Simon describes his anchor | GOP candidate for Calif. governor says faith and family support him (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pastor challenges D.C. mayor | Willie Wilson of Union Temple Baptist Church launched his write-in candidacy Monday (Associated Press)
  
  
• The church and foreign policy in US | American Catholicism's confrontation with its own flawed character can mitigate a broader American self-righteousness to the benefit of the world (James Carroll, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Bush defies belief | President preaches to converted while Fed grapples with the real problems (The Guardian, London)

Courts:

• Federal appeals court won't reinstate challenge to 'Choose Life' plates | Attorney for Louisiana abortion-rights supporters says he's 'strongly considering' appeal to Supreme Court (Associated Press)
  
  
• Lingerie shop sued on church pledge | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges that one of its lingerie shops didn't honor a promise to give a devout Baptist saleswoman most Sundays off to go to church (Associated Press)

Life ethics:

• Bill to bar abortion rollback | The California state Assembly is expected to pass a bill forbidding the state from outlawing abortion should the Supreme Court ever overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Bankruptcy and abortion -- II | Republicans shouldn't swallow Sen. Schumer's poison pill (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Abortion upon official demand | During a March 2001 orientation class for D.C. emergency medical technician trainees, interim Emergency Medical Services operations chief Samanthia Robinson told the class members that their employment could be terminated if they became pregnant in their first year on the job (Editorial, The Washington Post)
  
  
• First peek at fetus is no longer a blur | Prolife advocates love the new generation of scanning technology (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  
• Anti-abortion group gets tough | Georgia Right to Life backs those who reject rape, incest exceptions (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Religion and the media:

• Town, church feud over radio station | It seems obvious now, plainer every time a new brief is filed in the county courthouse up the road, that the Enfield Zoning Board never should have taken on Elmer Murray and the Living Waters Bible Church (The Boston Globe)

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