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Times staffers were reportedly embarrassed and humiliated by Moon's remarks.

Church and state:

• Both sides declare victory in Texas charitable-choice case | 5th Circuit panel upholds ruling that plaintiffs' constitutional claims were moot but sends lawsuit back to lower court for consideration of monetary damages. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Religions get new tool to fight land use regulations | Religious Land Use & Institution Persons Act of 2000 is making its presence felt nationwide (San Diego Daily Transcript)
  
  
• Megachurch wins round | City backs off zoning ordinance in face of U.S. law (The Bergen [N.J.] Record)
  
  
• When a triangle affronts religious beliefs | The refusal to use the devices on buggies signals a larger clash between religious rights and safety. (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Church members who visited Cuba without permit face fines | Methodists say restrictions violate religious freedom (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  
  
• Coup was 'God's plan': Fiji PM | Critics claim his remarks amount to blasphemy (AFP)
  
  
• Masaka, Uganda, relaxes ban on night prayers | Assistant Resident District Commissioner, a born-again Christian, defies her boss's order (New Vision, Kampala, Uganda)

Education:

• Christian Liberty founder dies | Paul Lindstrom was pioneer of the Christian home schooling movement (The Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs)
  
  
• Boy, 10, best in world bee | Christian home schoolers dominate competition (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Also: 10-year-old wins geography bee (Associated Press)
  
  
• Group requests high school Bible class | Board to review curriculum focusing on book as historic document (The Ann Arbor [Mich.] News)
  
  
• Suit targets graduation prayer | E. Plains parent seeks to end practice. (Denver Post)
  
  
• School official innocent of abuse | Charles Robert Patchin faced charges for sending misbehaving teens to work in manure pits at the school's dairy farm (Associated Press)
  
  
• Catholic schools' shutdown in doubt after court decision | Sale to compensate victims of the sex-abuse scandal at Mount Cashel appears uncertain (The Globe & Mail, Toronto)
  
  
• Earlier: Catholic schools wait for ruling | Thursday decision could allow schools to be liquidated (Vancouver Sun)
  
  
• Gideons told not to distribute Bibles | Parents of fifth-graders okayed distribution, but ACLU objected (Associated Press)
  
  
• Keep religion out of schools | Every student and every teacher is free to practice his own religion without having the government push one on him. (Reggie Rivers, The Denver Post)

Ten Commandments:

• Statue wars have roots in 1950s Hollywood | DeMille saw effort to display Commandments as way to promote film (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Ten Commandments banner makes waves | Project was formed in 1995 with the goal of putting the biblical rules in the forefront of the public mind and public debate. (The Washington Times)

Politics:

• Robert Casey Jr. soundly defeated in Penn. governor's race | Prolife Democrat loses to liberal Ed Rendell (Associated Press)
  
  
• Speeches by Bush reflect his faith | Like Jimmy Carter, he isn't afraid to talk about religious beliefs (Scripps Howard News Service)
  
  
• Church of Scotland now mirroring the politics of the far Left | The Church and Nation Committee's committee has left the people of western societies theoretically defenseless in military terms and spiritually defenseless in Christian terms (Robert Anderson, The Scotsman)
  
  
• Abortion rule snags bankruptcy bill | An amendment, aimed at clinic protesters looking to avoid fines, links the divergent issues (Los Angeles Times)

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