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• Uniting Church condones gay and lesbian clergy (PM, Radio Australia)
  
  
• Church votes for gay clergy | About 90 percent voted in favor of measures (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Church opens arms to gays, others head for door (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Australia church accepts gay priests (BBC)
  
  
• Gospel truths lost amid the malaise | The crisis in the Uniting Church lies less in gender and sexual issues than the fact that it is in decline because liberals have taken control (Gordon Moyes, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  

More sexual ethics stories:

• Dr John 'may yet become a bishop' | Sources said that he might be in line for a cathedral deanery and could even be considered for another bishopric in five or ten years, if the anti-homosexual climate cools (The Times, London)
  
  
• Religion Today: The next first gay bishop | Episcopal priest V. Gene Robinson is apparently some kind of saint (Associated Press)
  
  
• Church's rejection can fuel hatred | Excluding homosexuals does not reflect God's way, that of compassion (Dorothy McRae McMahon, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• The Devil Highway's number is finally up | After 77 years, U.S. 666 will soon be renamed and, some locals say, maybe even reborn (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• A maverick's voice spreads far and wide | But ex-Newark Bishop Spong keeps his distance on Jersey matters (The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J.)
  
  
• Tim Howard swears on the Bible | New Manchester United keeper uses religion to counter his Tourette's syndrome (Daily Record, Scotland)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Cooperative Baptist Fellowship joins Baptist World Alliance, Presbyterians are old and white, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Vicar brawls with photographer | English vicar with a double-booked church scuffled with a wedding photographer, sending him sprawling among the bridesmaids, because he was holding up the service (The Australian)
  
  
• A gentle man and a scholar | Philosopher and author Huston Smith embraces the equality of all religions (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Earlier: Huston, We Have a Problem | Neither science nor syncretism feeds the soul (Christianity Today, Oct. 25, 2001)
  
  
• Newspaper's ban on quoting Scripture in columns is distressing | Since when did newspapers get into the business of worrying too much about what offends their readers or not? (Editorial, The Daily Telegram, Superior, Wis.)
  
  

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