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• Board gears for ban proposal | Group wants to ban all materials dealing with witches and witchcraft (Middletown [Conn.] Press)
  
  
• Jeb Bush cites religious 'bigotry' | Bush told reporters Friday that he questioned whether Jerry Regier was being pilloried because of his conservative religious views, and condemned a "soft bigotry that is emerging against people of faith." (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Governor going out of his way to alienate women | Jeb Bush doesn't shy away from strong-minded working women, but the grave question facing his campaign strategists is whether Jerry Regier's presence, and the governor's staunch defense of his nominee, send the wrong signal (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Religious Left says the Religious Right is wrong | Conference participants say fundamentalism threatens democracy (The Dallas Morning News)

Terrorism:

• Bishop banned from boarding plane with his crosier | Security says it could be used as a weapon (Ananova)
  
  
• Israeli arrest exposes deep faultlines in Greek Church | Members of the church said yesterday that Israel was trying to use the Hanna affair to put pressure on Patriarch Ireneus to obtain leases on church land in Israel and Jerusalem (Financial Times)
  
  
• Also: Israel seizes priest in church power play | Israeli police have arrested a priest in a move that has re-ignited the battle for political control of the Greek Orthodox Church - the biggest landowner in the Holy Land (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Franklin Graham comments on Islam | For the millionth time, apparently (Associated Press)

Crime:

• In God they trusted, but angry retirees say investment plan took millions | How were hundreds of investors—many associated with Grand Rapids' leading employer—persuaded to give money to assist God's work on Earth, even as they hoped to earn tax-free riches? (The Grand Rapids [Mich.] Press)
  
  
• Police hope to catch church-going thief | In a bid to stop someone robbing parishioners while they are attending communion, police will be watching services (The Province, Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
  
  
• Women knifed in church | A woman was arrested after stabbing two young women in an inner-Melbourne church and attacking a man who intervened (The Daily Telegraph, Australia)

Nigeria stoning sentence:

• The savagery of Islamic law | Nigeria should intervene, by force if necessary, to stop an "Islamic court" from proceeding with a travesty of a trial that could result in a woman being stoned to death (Editorial, The Rocky Mountain News, Denver)
  
  
• Nigerian state washes its hands of stoning sentence | No intervention expected in appeal of woman who bore child out of wedlock (Sapa/AFP)
  
  
• Casting stones | The Qur'an says nothing about stoning. Why is this mother facing death? (Time)

Life ethics:

• Fertility laws branded 'ambiguous' | British law says both parties must consent to the storage and use of embryos created by IVF—but what happens when your former partner disagrees? (BBC)
  
  
• Taxpayer-funded lies | Antiabortion groups use "crisis-pregnancy centers" to scare women out of having abortions. Some lawmakers have cracked down on them. President Bush increased their federal funding (Michelle Goldberg, Salon.com)
  
  
• Hidden healer? | Abortion drug may be beneficial for reproductive health (Newsweek)

Sex and marriage:

• Gay student sues for discrimination | A gay former student of a Melbourne Christian school is taking legal action under equal opportunity legislation, claiming the school discriminated against him because of his sexuality (The Australian)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46