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1. House passes jobs training bill | Religious groups that receive federal funds to provide job training services could refuse to hire workers with different beliefs under legislation the House passed Thursday (Associated Press)
   
   
2. US quietly eases rules for faith-based groups | The nation's leading job training program told to allow faith-based organizations to use ''sacred literature,'' such as Bibles, in their federally funded programs (The Boston Globe)
   
   
3. New law will ban religious or sexual discrimination | Case law forbids workplace discrimination against Jews and Sikhs, and the legislation extends similar protection to Muslims (The Independent, London)
   
   
4. Cross over a cross | Overreacting to an employee's religious jewelry (Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
   
   
5. Also: Pennsylvania teacher's aide suspended for cross (The Washington Times)

1. Dobson: No plans to bolt GOP | But he's still upset that few Republicans supported Santorum (NewsMax.com)
   
   
2. Prayer breaks tradition | Prayer Breakfast invocation, usually a minute-long prayer for God's blessing on the meal, lasted an estimated 15 minutes and evoked hot-button political issues such as abortion and homosexuality (Northwest Herald, Crystal Lake, Illinois)
   
   
3. Religious wrong | God's role in the Republican assault on the environment (Hartford Advocate, Conn.)
   
   
4. No time to get squeamish | Too many Americans have already died of AIDS to allow research to wither because some Americans get the willies from terms like "anal sex." (Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times)

1. Oregon defends assisted suicide law | Says U.S. Justice Department has no right to interfere with doctor-assisted suicide in Oregon because states have historically regulated the practice of medicine (Associated Press)
   
   
2. Also: Oregon, U.S. battle in court over assisted suicide (Reuters)
   
   
3. Also: Clash in court over Oregon's law on suicide | U.S. argues it has the right to stop physicians from letting the terminally ill have lethal doses of controlled drugs (Los Angeles Times)

1. Laci Peterson's kin back fetal protection | Legislation that would make it a crime to kill or injure a fetus while committing certain federal offenses against the mother received a strong endorsement yesterday from the family of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner (The Washington Times)
   
   
2. Conn. Supreme Court: Fetus is body part | Ruling angers both sides of the abortion debate (Associated Press)

1. The implications of waiting until 'I do' to do it | Sophomore Matt McDonald and his girlfriend Hannah Renk got married in his dorm room in October (The Review, University of Delaware, link via Obscure Store)
   
   
2. Let's talk about sex | When the teenagers at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church tell their friends what they're learning in Sunday school, they get some interesting reactions (The Washington Post/Charlotte Observer)
   
   
3. There's no such thing as premarital sex | As long as a couple intends to "sign" their marital love in a marriage contract (like baptism, a public sign of a personal, spiritual reality), then a sexual relationship can be affirmed as good, if not yet ideal (Daniel Harrell, Regeneration Quarterly)
   
   
4. Also: Changing hearts | Harrell is right about one very important thing: Our current approach to sex is out of date (Roberto Rivera, Breakpoint)
   
   
5. State ban on gay marriage upheld | A Marion County judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to lift a ban on gay marriages in Indiana (The Indianapolis Star)
   
   

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