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• Why America has gay marriage jitters | Pollsters say most Americans consider marriage essentially a religious institution intended explicitly for a man and a woman (Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times)
  
  
• 48 liberals line up against same-sex marriage | The most opposition Jean Chrétien has faced from his own caucus to one of his laws since coming into office 10 years ago (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
  
  
• In gay-union debate, religious influence hard to measure | The question remains whether the religious community has the clout, especially when it is sending such mixed messages, to influence the civil debate over gay rights (The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Group co-founded by gay bishop helps teens | Gene Robinson's Concord Outright says kids can be gay and Christian (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'This could be your kid' | Law enforcement is on alert: teen prostitution is flourishing nationwide. The girls are younger, the trade is more violent—and, increasingly, the teenagers come from middle-class homes (Newsweek)
  
  
• Many religious faiths still struggle with issue of gay clergy | Most religious faiths and movements in the United States ban clergy who engage in same-sex sexual behavior (Voice of America)
  
  
• Uniting we stand, say 300 churchgoers | Evangelical opponents of gay ordination yesterday vowed to reclaim the Uniting Church from within (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Another ex-gay leader suffers 'moral fall' | Michael Johnston, founder of Kerusso Ministries, is accused of exposing male sex partners to HIV; others faulted for concealing scandal (Dallas Voice)
  
  
• Gay fixation sidelines churches | Orthodox Christianity is under threat from radical apologists who transform the elements of faith to a less heroic agenda (James Murray, The Australian)
  
  
• Homosexuality, in the biblical sense | New gay theology challenges traditional views of scripture and intimacy (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Poison-pen police hunt | A Police investigation has started to track down the authors of homophobic letters posted nationwide in a hate campaign against a North Staffordshire clergyman (The Sentinel, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)
  
  
• Also: Police called in as poison pen tirade intensifies | Police are hunting the authors of "homophobic" letters distributed in an anti-gay hate campaign against a Methodist church minister (The Sentinel, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)
  
  

Sex and marriage:

• Wedding-day kiss will be couple's first | For the couple, who met at a Southern Baptist evangelical church in Renton, not kissing, not hugging and not having sex before they are married is an avowal of purity (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• The marriage amendment | Americans use written constitutions to hamstring the government and permanently fence off matters about which it can't be trusted (L. Lynn Hogue, The Washington Times)
  
  

Clergy sex abuse:

• Boston's exemplary friar | Archbishop Sean O'Malley is providing enlightened leadership for Boston Catholics bedeviled by the cover-up of priests who sexually abused innocent children (Editorial, The New York Times)
  
  
• The real perpetrators of priestly sex abuse | The Massachusetts attorney general's report is one of the most revolting documents you will ever read (Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Boston church settled suits from 1994-'01 | Paid at least $21.2 million (Associated Press)
  
  

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