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Church of England rejects policy | The Church of England decided Tuesday against adopting a policy on allowing divorced people to remarry in the church, saying the decision was up to individual priests (Associated Press)

Synod step towards church marriage for the divorced (The Guardian)

New stance on marriage for divorcees could bring fresh hope to Charles and Camilla (Ananova)

Charles' remarriage cleared (Herald Sun, Australia)

• Vouchers pass constitutional test, but are they good for America? | We need to decide what kind of educational system will enable our religiously diverse nation to live with our deepest differences (Charles Haynes, Freedom Forum)
• Does voucher law violate Florida's constitution? | Judge hears similar to Supreme Court case (Associated Press)
• In vouchers they trust | The president's faith-based initiative needed a boost, and Zelman may have provided it (Ira C. Lupu and Robert W. Tuttle, Legal Times)
• Catholics laud voucher decision, see potential for growth | People of faith are in anything but lockstep in their reaction to the Supreme Court's decision (Education Week)
• A great day, or dark one, for schools? | Within minutes, advocacy groups of all stripes were issuing statements, celebrating, or resigning themselves to uneasy coexistence or renewed opposition (Education Week)

• Mom: Girl has no problem with pledge | Daughter expressed "extreme sadness" with court's ruling (Associated Press)
• Insurrection or precedent? | Supreme Court decisions haven't paved the way for the 9th Circuit's Pledge decision (Bruce Fein, The Washington Times)
• The march of unchristian soldiers | America's legal intention to sanctify freedom of religion has been transformed into freedom from religion (Paul Udoto, The Nation, Nairobi, Kenya)
• If you're serious about God, this is a disaster | When is God not God? When He's blessing America, apparently. Or when in Him we trust. Or when this big old imperial power is one nation under Him. (Mark Kingwell, National Post, Canada)

• Oklahoma City district attorney candidate writes to pastors as part of campaign | Memo was not printed with public funds (KOCO, Oklahoma City)
• Also: Text of letter to pastors from DA Wes Lane (KOCO, Oklahoma City)
• Traditional Jews, Christians unite | Gary Bauer, Daniel Lapin unite in creating American Alliance of Jews and Christians, headquartered in Washington, D.C. (The Washington Times)
• No penalty for Mich. religion remark | William Callahan said Rep. Sander Levin shouldn't represent his redrawn district because he is Jewish (Associated Press)
• Thousands cheered pastor's courthouse prayer in Ripley | Jack Miller Miller, pastor at West Ripley Baptist Church, exploded into a withering criticism of abortion, homosexuality, multiculturalism and pornography (Daily Mail, Charleston, W.V.)
• Eugene Rivers warns of rift between Democrat leaders, minority voters | Inner city ministries discriminated against for state funds, says preacher (Boston Herald)
• German parties seek gay vote | Germany's conservative Christian Democrats have broken with half a century of Roman Catholic tradition by appealing for the votes of homosexuals in the September general elections (The Times, London)
• Church of Scotland brings Bible's message to bear on green issue | From Noah's mission to save the world's species from the great flood to God's warning in Deuteronomy that despoiling the Earth is blasphemy, the Bible is littered with strong environmental messages (The Scotsman)

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