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'Costco Church' wins battle:

• Judge halts city's bid for church land | Cypress' attempt to seize Cottonwood property for a Costco is temporarily blocked (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Also: Church wins round in Cypress land fight | Temporary injunction halts effort to seize property for Costco project, pending judge's decision in March (The Orange County Register)
  
  
• Also: Churches gain edge over cities | Judge's strongly worded ruling stops Cypress from exercising eminent domain (The Orange County Register)

Life ethics:

• Abortion case winner loses her baby | Tanya Meyers had just received a judge's permission to have an abortion over the objections of her ex-boyfriend (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Dad's sad, mad: Too bad | Why dads don't count when it comes to abortion (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com)
  
  
• Stem cell challenge | Intel founder gives UCSF $5 million, urges other donors to match it (San Francisco Chronicle)

Islam and Christianity:

• Saudis lash US 'Christian extremists' | The Saudi press has launched a vitriolic attack on what it describes as Christian fundamentalism in the United States (BBC)
  
  
• Saudi leader accuses Bush advisers | al-Watan newspaper says Christian fundamentalism is more dangerous than other extreme religions (The Times, London)
  
  
• Book value | Lawsuit against Koran assignment ignores the mission of universities (Editorial, The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Religious freedom:

• Bible-reading prison workers win Minnesota lawsuit | Two prison employees reprimanded for reading their Bibles in silent protest of an employer-sponsored training session on homosexuality have been awarded $78,000 in damages by a federal jury (Reuters)
  
  
• Native American gets okay to use eagle feathers in religious practices | 10th Circuit upholds lower court ruling that seizure of feathers violates Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Associated Press)
  
  
• Mom sues for $1.5 million after school rejects son's letter to Jesus | Jesus seemed perfect for a writing assignment the 7th-grader got this spring in his language-arts class in Brookfield, Ohio: write a friendly letter to someone who dramatically changed his life (Fox News)
  
  
• Texas school district sued over e-mail policy | Employee claims rule barring workers from using e-mail to send religious messages violates First Amendment (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: HP schools' policy on e-mail spurs suit | Employee says ban on religious content is unconstitutional (The Dallas Morning News)

Crime and courts:

• Memphis minister shot and killed in New Orleans | What happened to Alfred DeWayne Hill is a mystery (Associated Press)
  
  
• Priest receives probation for false carjacking report | Ex-pastor lied to cover up his night with prostitute (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• One 9th Circuit appeals court, under God? | The nation's biggest - and most controversial - federal court may be split up (The Christian Science Monitor)

Homosexuality:

• Methodists only bar gay clergy in theory | Church courts are unwilling to prosecute (Associated Press)
  
  
• Episcopals read letter on feud | Churches throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania were ordered Sunday to read a letter written by the bishop to explain the suspension of a conservative rector who opposes the ordination of women and homosexuals (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Episcopal Church war over gays escalates | Bishop's letter to cite minister's disobedience (Philadelphia Daily News)
  
  
• San Francisco judges cut ties to Scouts over gays | The city's Superior Court judges and commissioners — in response to a resolution from a local bar association — have adopted a policy that prohibits them from participating as members in a chapter or branch of any organization that "discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation by excluding members on the grounds that their sexual orientation renders them 'unclean,' 'immoral,' or 'unfit.'" (The Washington Times)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46