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Doesn't Durbin know this? If not, what kind of Catholic lawmaker is he? If so, his statement is very disingenuous.

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), said the Committee for Justice's ads and the accusation that Democrats were imposing a religious test are "the most serious I've seen in 29 years in the United States Senate. It is despicable. It is contemptible. It goes back to a darker time."

Yet in the media coverage Weblog has seen, no Democrats are quoted answering the question at hand: Is anyone who opposes abortion based on religious belief automatically unqualified for office?

At the end of the day, the committee voted 10-9 to send Pryor's nomination to the Senate floor. But the Democrats are set on defeating it outright—or preventing a floor vote via a filibuster.

Sex abuse report released:

• Abuse scandal far deeper than disclosed, report says | Victims of clergy may exceed 1,000, Mass. Attorney General estimates (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Report: Over 1,000 in Boston archdiocese were likely abused | Statute bars indictment of top leaders (The Washington Post)
  
  
• 789 children abused by priests since 1940, Massachusetts says | The report cited an "institutional acceptance of abuse," but the child-protection laws pertaining to that time would not allow charges to be filed (The New York Times)
  
  
• Many outraged, some cautious after Reilly's report (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• AG says leaders stood in the way | Queries church's ability to move beyond 'secrecy' (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Law's lieutenants scorned in report | Information said to be concealed from authorities (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Massachusetts AG hits church for sex abuse (Associated Press)
  
  
• Abuse woes continue for Catholic Church (Associated Press)
  
  

Homosexual rift in the Anglican Church:

• Anglican conservatives warn of 'realignment' | U.S. Episcopalians may confirm gay bishop (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Conservative Anglican leaders warn of a schism | Conservative Episcopal bishops in the United States and from the developing world share a sense of alienation from the Anglican dioceses that do not denounce homosexuality (The New York Times)
  
  
• American gay bishop 'would shatter Church' | In their most powerful statement yet, seven primates and a number of bishops—representing more than half the 75 million-strong Church—demanded that Canon Gene Robinson be stopped from becoming bishop of New Hampshire (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Anglicans lobby against same-sex measures (Associated Press)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Swedish gays run 'gay kid' ads | A campaign by a Swedish gay group to promote awareness that non-heterosexual orientation can start from an early age caused a backlash on Wednesday from a child protection group that said the sexual depiction of children could encourage pedophiles (Reuters)
  
  
• Austin minister targeted by anti-gay campaign | The lawyer and complaining witness, Paul Rolf Jensen, appear to have turned a campaign against homosexuality into a full-time job (The Austin Chronicle)
  
  

Baylor University:

• Baylor notebook (pt 1, pt 2) | This fundamentalist controversy is phony (Rod Dreher, Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• A few clarifications | The president of the Baylor Alumni Association responds to Dreher (Dallas Morning News)
  
  

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