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Canadian politics:

• Harper, Day battle on religion | 'Quite hypocritical': Vitriol spews over place of evangelicals (National Post)
  
  
• Day slips into Bible college for rally | Stop absent from his itinerary (National Post)
  
  
• Pro-life lobby repeals call for Canadian Alliance membership donations | Jim Hughes, national president of the Campaign Life Coalition, said his group had no idea the party's rules governing memberships had changed. (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Day accused of courting evangelicals | Harper camp concerned: Recruitment of former pastor raises suspicions (National Post)
  
  
• Day accuses Harper, Hill of building firewalls against religious minorities | Day supporters say opponents are just up to same old tricks (Canadian Press)
  
  
• Abortion issue reappears in fight for Canadian Alliance leadership | Harper said the Canadian Alliance does not have a particular policy on the abortion issue, but Stockwell Day is trying to make it appear that there is one. (Canadian Press)
  
  

Church and state:

• Lawmakers, don't stifle religious freedom | New York bill maintains that government shall decide what constitutes religion and what does not, what is Catholic and what is not (William Murphy, Newsday)
  
  
• Religious signs lose to deed restrictions | Homeowners ordered to pay fees (Houston Chronicle)
  
  

Faith-based initiative:

• How new faith-based bill would affect local churches | Senate bill allows charitable deductions for religious groups but no direct federal aid. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• New point man for charities | Politics-savvy Towey picked by Bush to lead faith-based initiatives (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Bush and funding of faith | The Senate bill is a useful first step toward Congress fine-tuning the constitutional boundary between church and state. (Editorial, The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Bush's conversion: He welcomes a scaled-down 'faith-based' bill | President Bush has implicitly recognized that his original proposal presented practical and constitutional problems (Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Keeping the faith pays off | Senate faith-based initative compromise moves cautiously and does not go as far as some would like, but given the issues at stake, that's for the best. (Editorial, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  
  

Religion and schools:

• Va. Senate panel kills proposal to let schools post Commandments | Religious content deemed patently unconstitutional (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Student's rights suit is rejected | He tried to give out items with religious messages in Egg Harbor Twp. A U.S. judge backed the schools. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Scholar says God being purged from history | A scholar who spent 18 years studying original manuscripts of the founding fathers says the federal government is actively revising American history, erasing the impact religion had on them and history. (The Clay Center Dispatch, Kansas)
  
  
• GOP renews push on school choice | Many proposals floating around, Congressman urges proponents to rally around one (The Washington Times)
  
  

Science:

• Unintelligible redesign | This is the way creationism ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. (William Saletan, Slate.com)
  
  
• Bush panel mulls therapeutic cloning | The President's Council on Bioethics has abandoned any hope of consensus on the ethics of human cloning for the purpose of medical research and treatments, as members remain deeply divided over the moral status of a human embryo (Associated Press)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46