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• Is Europe a Christian continent? | Question becomes important as churches lobby for a mention of the continent's Christian heritage in a key document on the future of the European Union (Associated Press)
  
  
• Pastor to challenge Rutherford as write-in candidate for mayor | A.J. Pointer submitted the second-highest number of signatures but failed to qualify for the Aug. 6 ballot (The Flint [Mich.] Journal)
  
  
• House panel OKs rewritten 'virtual' child-porn ban | Supreme Court struck down broader ban in April (Reuters)
  
  
• House GOP again tries to stop partial-birth abortion | Bush says he'll sign ban bill (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Supreme Court again finds itself on side of Jehovah's Witnesses | Ruling in Ohio case strongly affirms value of anonymous, unregulated and unpopular speech. (Tony Mauro, Freedom Forum)
  
  
• Black coalition: repeal gay-rights section | 1998 amendment to the county's human rights ordinance extended protections to gay men and lesbians (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Higher immorality? | For some religious groups, drug laws do more harm than drugs themselves (ABCNews.com)
  
  
• Ohio judge gets go-ahead to rehang commandments poster | Meanwhile, ministers urge county school board to appeal order to remove stone tablets from public schools. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Earlier: Grace period is denied in Commandments case | A federal judge yesterday told a Mansfield judge to take down the Ten Commandments from his courtroom by 9 a.m. Monday or face penalties (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

Faith-based initiative:

• Conservatives angered by environmental provision | Tax break for environmental groups added to faith-based initiative bill (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Religion and tax dollars in the mix | Faith-based groups have ready access to funds, study finds. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Senate panel closes tax loophole | Faith-based initiative measure allowing more deductions for charitable donations moves along (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Panel okays charity part of Bush's faith-based initiative (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Faith-based bill may be windfall for universities | Version of legislation the Senate Finance Committee approved earlier this week would provide a $2.9 billion tax break to people who make donations from Individual Retirement Accounts to nonprofit institutions—a benefit potentially so large, college officials say they have been seeking it for more than five years (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• The new civil rights struggle | Inner-city ministries have a religious discrimination case against the federal government (John J. Diiulio Jr, The Wall Street Journal)

Life ethics:

• 'Stem cell' studies may end embryo research | Cells from adult bone marrow could provide an alternative to embryo cells to make brain, heart, muscle or any other type of cell for new treatments, according to a study published yesterday (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Abortion protester surprised to get ACLU backing in suit | Though often opposing prolife activists, civil liberties group says Cuyahoga Falls police stepped over the line when they confiscated Operation Rescue's placard (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland)
  
  

Sex education:

• Study revives sex ed debate | A new study published by the British Medical Journal finds that sex ed classes, even those that teach abstinence, are having almost no impact. (Fox News)
  
  
• Also: Teenage pregnancy prevention strategies are ineffective (British Medical Journal)
  
  
• Also: Sex education does not change behavior (British Medical Journal)
  
  

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June (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46