No commentary today, just oodles of article links. The full version of Weblog will return Monday.

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)