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Bob Meyers says the death of his brother, seventh victim Dean Myers, "has been a challenge. But a long time ago, we chose to trust God rather than question him. There was two inches between my brother being hit and not being hit. Who am I to question something like this?"

Back in Montgomery, Alabama, the pastor of Claudine Parker, who may have been one of the sniper's victims, is calling for special healing services on Sunday. "We are going to be encouraging our families and our churches to devote a time of prayer for the families, prayer for the victims, for those who are working the cases and prayers for the deranged mind of the perpetrators," he tells the Montgomery Advertiser.

Meanwhile, there will also be many prayers of thanksgiving this weekend.

Ten Commandments:

• A monumental issue puts two icons on trial | 10 Commandments display at issue (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Monumental clash over Ten Commandments | A trial examines whether a judge's decision to display a stone tablet at a courthouse violates church-state divide (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Trial over Alabama Ten Commandments monument ends | Federal judge expects to rule by Nov. 18, believes main issue is 'if government can acknowledge God' (Associated Press)
  
  
• Judge weighs display ruling | No indication of how he will decide the case (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Main issue: Can state recognize God? | "I have to admit, that whether I agree or disagree with Justice Moore, he was straightforward. He wasn't playing games," says judge (The Birmingham News)
  
  
• Expert: U.S. law owes little to Bible | Paul Finkelman says nation's founders mentioned Roman, British and European continental law but not the Bible or the Ten Commandments during their debates on the Constitution (The Birmingham News)
  
  
• Religion scholar dislikes display | Christianity Today editor-at-large Randall Balmer testified Tuesday that a visit to the Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the state Judicial Building made him more determined to see it removed (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Experts disagree over monument | Witnesses divided on whether display would offend the country's founders (The Birmingham News)
  
  
• Experts disagree on separation of church and state (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• Moore defines faith stance | Guided by his own attorney, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore opened wide his personal font of knowledge on God, government and law last Friday (Montgomery Advertiser)
  
  
• The gospel according to Hammurabi | Instead of the Commandments, display mankind's earliest known code of laws (Dale McFeatters, Naples [Fla.] Daily News)

Politics and law:

• On defense, religious right makes attack | David Hager isn't a victim of religious profiling. He was picked because of his profile (Ellen Goodman, New Haven Register)
  
  
• Also: Hager isn't horrible | Why exclude a biblical view from a federal advisory committee? (Marvin Olasky, World)

• Hill Group Faults HHS for Ideology | Today, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice plans to hold a news conference to denounce what it views as "the growing influence of religious extremism on reproductive health care." (The Washington Post)
  
  

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