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When Falwell told the owner of JerryFalwell.com, Gary Cohn, that he planned to refile his case in the Northern District Federal Court in Illinois, Cohn handed the site over, along with the misspelled JerryFallwell.com. Cohn still runs an anti-Falwell site at InternetParodies.org.

"The issue here was not his criticism of me, or my ministry," Falwell says in his weekly column. "The issue in this case was, rather, that this man was utilizing my own name to launch attacks on me. This was often confusing to friends of my ministries and/or people seeking information on me, or my many ministries, who unintentionally connected to this man's site."

Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University, says his next Internet battle is to gain control of LibertyUniversity.edu and LibertyUniversity.com, which are owned by American Liberty University, in Montgomery, Alabama.

Persecution:

• Pastor gets 15 years in Laos prison | Diplomats still hope to negotiate his early release from the Communist country (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)
  
  
• Also: St. Paul pastor sentenced to 15 years in Laos (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Christians besieged in Pakistan | Americans may not have seen much retaliation on their own soil because, several human rights groups say, Christians in Pakistan are taking the brunt of it (The Washington Times)
  
  

Church and state:

• Soliciting prayer | Making public space available to a group after hours does not confer upon it the same approbation as having teachers and school officials distribute its literature during school hours (Editorial, The Washington Post)
  
  
• White House steps in on church-school case | The Bush administration is opposing Montgomery County public school officials' decision to bar a group from sending students home with fliers promoting an evangelist club (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Debate rekindled over Ten Commandments monument | Frederick officials believed they had resolved the dispute over a Ten Commandments monument last year when they sold the public parkland it sits on to a private group. But a federal lawsuit filed against the city last week revived the controversy and placed Frederick in the middle of a nationwide battle over religious icons in government-controlled space (The Washington Post)
  
  

Supreme Court sodomy ruling:

• Ruling on gays stirs up emotions | Many in the region praise court's sweeping decision as clergymen denounce it; Prompts hope for more change (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Most clergy condemn court ruling | Local pastors express views regarding majority decision to overturn ban from 1986 (Manitowoc Herald Times, Wis.)
  
  
• Straight talk on families | If government could not hold the line against the sexual revolution among the heterosexual majority, why should anyone think that discriminating against our nation's gay minority is a useful way to uphold "family values"? (E. J. Dionne Jr., The Washington Post)
  
  
• The bedroom door | Rather than wring our hands and cry "abomination!", believers in family values should take up the challenge and repair our own house (William Safire, The New York Times)
  
  

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship meeting:

• Cooperative Baptists tackle diversity | Mostly white membership meets, explores ways to work with black, Hispanic churches (The State, Columbia, S.C.)
  
  
• Baptist group embraces variety of views | Fellowship is alternative to more conservative Southern Baptists (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Campolo: Opposition to women preachers evidence of demonic influence (Baptist Press)
  
  
• Campolo tells moderates not to fight conservatives (Biblical Recorder, N.C.)
  
  

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