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Moore is scheduled to hold a press conference on the ruling this morning.

Bush again pushes vouchers:

• Bush pushes vouchers, D.C. charters | Educational options touted as ways to make city a 'model of excellence' (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Bush proposes $75-million voucher plan | Renewing an old campaign issue, he seeks federal funds for private education. The program would be the first of its kind (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Bush pushes vouchers for 2,000 D.C. students (The Washington Times\)
  
  
• Friends of choice | There simply is no other practical or easy alternative to bolster educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged children (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Leader of Church of Scotland welcomes gay clergy | Iain Torrance said he was "utterly untroubled" by the ordination of homosexuals provided that they proved "disciplined and effective" ministers (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Also: Appointing a gay minister would not trouble Kirk, says moderator (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Ill. church split on gay worker's firing | Bill Stein, the music director and organist for five years, was fired June 17 after he refused church leaders' request that he promise to lead a "/chaste" life (Associated Press)
  
  
• New Wal-Mart policy protects gay workers | Wal-Mart said it had no plans to extend medical benefits to unmarried couples, but gay rights groups that have pressed for coverage for domestic partners said they would continue to lobby the company to do so (The New York Times)
  
  
• ACLU files suit over city parade | Protests over exclusion of gays threaten the event, a group says (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
  
  
• Also: ACLU sues parade over exclusion of gays (Associated Press)
  
  
• Scriptures are clear on sexual matters | Trying to make God's word "fit the times" only robs it of meaning and guidance (Peter Jensen, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• The Bible and the body: mixed messages | Christianity has given women mixed messages about their bodies for centuries, according to Mary LaBarre, a visiting professor of theology at the University of Portland (The Oregonian, Portland)
  
  
• Not-so-holy matrimony | Christianity has always had a bleaker view of love—gay or straight—than any other faith (Karen Armstrong, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Next up, the gay divorcée | Senate majority leader Bill Frist thinks gay marriage is unholy. He also used to trap and dissect stray kittens (Maureen Dowd, The New York Times)
  
  

Same-sex marriage:

• White House avoids stand on gay marriage measure | Two days after the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, embraced a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban gay marriage, the White House declined to endorse it (The New York Times)
  
  
• Congresswoman leads fight on gay marriage | While gays claim victory with a Supreme Court decision knocking down a ban on sodomy, freshman Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave insists the real battle is over the right of homosexuals to marry. And she is leading a charge to make sure that doesn't happen. (Associated Press)
  
  

• Gay marriage plan for Scotland threatens to provoke new battle | Jack McConnell is to risk battle with family value campaigners by proposing a system of gay "/marriages" in Scotland to avoid being steamrollered into it by Whitehall (The Scotsman)
  
  

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