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• The threat from gay marriage | It is not by coincidence or on a whim that human societies since time immemorial have restricted marriage to opposite-sex unions (Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Debate on gay unions splits along generations | Recent polls suggest that young adults and older people view gay rights in starkly different terms (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Just say I do to a traditional church wedding | Church weddings are in such decline that the Church of England is launching a campaign to promote their advantages over increasingly popular civil ceremonies in stately homes or hotels (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Study finds gay unions brief | A recent study on homosexual relationships finds they last 1-1/2 years on average — even as homosexual groups are pushing nationwide to legalize same-sex "/marriages." (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Line in the sand | Profamily voters cannot compromise on homosexual marriage (Joel Belz, World)
  
  
• Church coalition pushes for gay marriage | With a renewed national debate about gay marriage as a backdrop, a new coalition of liberal Protestant and Jewish leaders from Colorado announced plans Thursday to press for legalizing gay marriage and to fight a Colorado congresswoman's bill that would define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Also: Clergy back gay marriage | Calling Colorado's ban on gay marriage "discrimination at its worst," a newly formed coalition of clergy announced Thursday it will fight for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in religion and law (The Rocky Mountain News)
  
  
• Also: Clergy coalition to oppose defense of marriage proposal | More than 40 clergy members rallied Thursday to criticize Colorado's ban on gay marriages, calling the recognition only of heterosexual couples "state-imposed discrimination at its worst" (Associated Press)
  
  

Church divisions over homosexuality:

• Dr John's opponents should be ashamed | A good holy, intelligent man has been crucified by them (Mary Ann Sieghart, The Times, London)
  
  
• You don't have to be a mad extremist to oppose Jeffrey John | Evangelicals are not the only ones who object to the forcing of a gay liberationist agenda on the Church (Joel Edwards, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Church fears north-south sex rift | The sight of Third World clerics increasingly defending traditional values against spreading liberal views on sex in the West raises the question whether the world's leading Christian churches face a case of "the empire strikes back" (Reuters)
  
  
• Church warns dioceses on gays | Church Of Uganda bishops yesterday warned that they would sever relations with any Anglican diocese, which condones homosexuality (New Vision, Kampala, Uganda)
  
  
• Church convention avoids gay bishop row (PA)
  
  
• 47 days that shook the world of Reading's quietly spoken bishop elect | A brief overview of the Jeffrey John controversy (Reading Chronicle, England)
  
  
• Martyrs and mitres | Rowan Williams' enthronement was the evangelicals' 9/11; Jeffrey John our war on doctrinal terror (Jonathan Bartley, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Church meets amid gay priest crisis | The Church of England's governing body will meet in York on Friday, amid tension over the short-lived appointment of a homosexual priest as Bishop of Reading (BBC, video)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Boy Scouts lose case | State's delisting of charity because of its gay ban upheld (The Hartford Courant, Conn.)
  
  

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July (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47