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Weblog: Heavy Lifting During a Busy Religion News Week

"Oodles of religion news stories, on topics from Joyce Meyer to Franklin Graham, from gay marriage to The Passion of the Christ"

Ted Olsen with Rob Moll | posted 12/01/2003 12:00AM

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Sex in the capital city | Some Congress members have overstepped their legitimate role of overseeing federally funded scientific research by threatening to cut off money for nearly 200 grants to study sexual behavior (Editorial, Los Angeles Times)
What's sex got to do with it? | Christianity has not always been a religion so preoccupied with sexual behavior (or gender identity). (Geza Vermes, The Guardian, London)
Gay bishop, rabbi discuss religion, sex | Gene Robinson and Steven Greenberg said they shared similar struggles in attempting to reconcile traditional religious taboos against homosexuality with their once secret sexual attraction to men (Los Angeles Times)

Abortion:

U.K. woman wins late-term abortion case | A clergywoman Monday won the right to take legal action against a police chief for failing to prosecute doctors who performed a late-term abortion of a fetus with a cleft lip and palate (Associated Press)
Abortion critic disrupts supervisors' news conference | A no-protest buffer zone at clinics is under consideration (The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)
No-protest clinic zone supported | After an emotional and deeply polarized hearing Tuesday, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to establish no-protest zones outside abortion clinics in unincorporated areas (The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)
Abortion clinics targeted before they are built | Foes threaten to boycott contractors (The Washington Post)
Planned predators | Planned Parenthood subverts parents and dispenses death pills to vulnerable teens like candy — cheap, easy, super-safe. (Michelle Malkin, The Washington Times)

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