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• Student 'preaching' | The First Amendment guarantees religious freedom, not freedom from being annoyed (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Why Jehovah's Witnesses' victory is a win for all of us | However, Supreme Court frames proselytizing group's right to go door-to-door as free-speech issue, neglecting to mention free exercise of religion (Charles Haynes, Freedom Forum)
  
  
• Florida college, students settle free-speech suit | Students filed a complaint against the school in 1999 after they were detained and threatened with arrest for distributing religious literature without approval (Associated Press)
  
  
• Religious impulses, good and bad | The atheists attack the cross, the CFR folks attack soft money, and Jesse Ventura folds like a cheap tent. (David Brooks, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• Religion more of an issue for human resource managers | The federal government's religious discrimination lawsuit against Sykes Enterprises Inc. reflects issues human resource managers face in balancing employees' faith and work requirements (The Tampa Bay [Fla.] Business Journal)

Church life:

• Presbyterians cover many bases | Meeting in marathon sessions, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) addressed problems from the most personal to the most political, recommending a plan for peace in the Middle East, defining when late-term abortions are acceptable and calling for a boycott of Taco Bell. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Black church in state of flux | More involvement key focus of event (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• 'Mega churches' bring in huge congregations | Americans are comfortable with things that are big (Voice of America)
  
  
• Downtown churches face uncertain fate | Because of declining memberships, shifting demographics and lasting damage from the 2001 Ash Wednesday earthquake, Seattle is on the cusp of losing some of its most architecturally inspiring and historically significant houses of worship (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Congregating chickens are devout about Maui church | Clucking wild birds are a noisy nuisance for the parishioners (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
  
  
• Pot smokers to share venue with Christians | Cannabis Day and Christian churches will both be meeting in Halifax park (The Daily News, Halifax, N.S., Canada)
  
  
• We'll have small bells | A group of drunks who gather in a graveyard have asked church officials to stop ringing the bells so loudly as it's ruining their get-togethers (The Sunday Mirror, U.K.)
  
  
• Church's 118-year story nears end | After series of problems, Pr. George's congregation to hold last service (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Growth pits church vs. neighbors | Neighbors have attended nearly every city meeting focusing on the church's design plan, seeking any way to stop the church from expanding. (The Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)

Clergy abuse scandals:

• Former Southern Baptist missionary admits abuse | Says 'sinful acts' with children abroad took place years ago (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• Catholic Church faces new sex scandal | Scandal in the Roman Catholic Church may be spreading from priests' abuse of children to abuse of women, especially nuns. (Wendy McElroy, Fox News)
  
  
• For gay Catholic priests, new scrutiny | Some worry that church could equate homosexuality with sex abuse (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Seattle priest faces removal: 'I'm so clearly not a danger' | But he admits he inappropriately touched children at a camp in the 1970s (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Bishops begin enforcing abuse plan | Yet even as Catholic leaders began to clean house, outside pressure from law enforcement authorities was building (Associated Press)
  
  

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June (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46