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There seems to be some difference of opinion from the Family Research Council on Bush's comments. FRC President Ken Connor told The Washington Post that Bush's comments were "prudential," but Genevieve Wood, vice president of media relations, told The Washington Times, "We'd like to see him take it up a notch. The country needs leadership on this. … We would like to see him get in front of the issue more forcefully in the future and not always just be responding to the courts — to be more proactive."

More on sexual ethics and marriage:

• We need the Marriage Amendment | Every American has a stake in how marriage is defined, and the decision should not be left either to a tiny minority of the population or to unelected judges (Al Knight, The Denver Post)
  
  
• A civil tradition | Data show same-sex unions in Vt. draw a privileged group (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Boy Scouts under fire; ban on gays is at issue | The question of whether gay men are appropriate role models as scout leaders remains a painful, tangled and divisive issue for the Boy Scouts (The New York Times)
  
  

• Six justices have their say: Morals R Us | The court's holding does not signal the end of morality but merely the transfer of decision-making power (Jonathan Cohn, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

• Abolish marriage | Let's really get the government out of our bedrooms (Michael Kinsley, Slate)
  
  
• Kenya's clerics say no to gay marriages (The East African Standard, Nairobi)
  
  

• Viva las virgins! | Elvis does the abstinence convention, at least from the waist up (The Washington Post)
  
  

Happy Independence Day, Americans
Weblog, along with other new postings at the Christianity Today website, will return Monday after a long Independence Day weekend. If you're a reader from outside the United States and tomorrow isn't a holiday, then happy day to you.

Persecution:

• Anglican, Pentecostal Bishops on Kony rebels' list | Lord's Resistance Army rebels not just targeting Catholics anymore (New Vision, Uganda)
  
  
• Vietnam sentences 9 for organizing religious group | Media reports say the nine organized a branch of Dega Protestantism in the Central Highlands of Vietnam in April 2001 with 70 followers (Voice of America)
  
  
• Conversion law: Gujarat High Court throws out Christian Council's plea | Law banning conversion stands for now (Indian Express)
  
  

Ten Commandments:

• Committed to civil liberties | Student at center of dispute about religious monument (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Moore says ruling unconstitutional | "Federal courts are simply wrong to conclude that we cannot recognize the sovereignty of God," Alabama's chief justice said during a news conference (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  
• Commandments ruling doesn't budge area displays (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  
• Time for Moore to accept law | This isn't a left-right issue, but an issue of constitutionality, of whether the protections outlined in the Constitution are meaningful or meaningless (Editorial, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.)
  
  
• Moore should drop Commandments case | Should Justice Moore appeal, the Supreme Court might use his egregious violation of the "separation of church and state" clause, and his poorly reasoned arguments, to further restrict displays of religious art and messages in government buildings (Editorial, Mobile Register, Ala.)
  
  
• Above the law | Moore must show respect for federal court rulings (Editorial, The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Playing God | Eggs from fetuses, artificial wombs, dead men's sperm - it's not only the religious right who object to such 'advances' (Hilary and Steven Rose, The Guardian, London)
  
  

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June (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47