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• Also: Ruling based on religion tossed | Rape sentencing sent to new judge (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
  
  
• Tapping into White House vision | Experienced organizations have an advantage in winning government funding, but a faith-based initiative program may help even the odds (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Turner to pray again at council meetings | His decision challenges ACLU's position (The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.)
  
  
• Judge blocks new Missouri abortion law | Law would have required a 24-hour waiting period for abortions (Associated Press)
  
  
• Amish want labor laws for teens relaxed | An Amish group asked lawmakers Wednesday to relax federal labor laws that prohibit teenagers from working near powerful woodworking machines — rules they said threaten a cornerstone of their culture (Associated Press)
  
  
• Why are soldiers treated differently? | Islamist Fifth Columnists are benefiting from the very guarantees of religious freedom being denied to devout Christian soldiers (Michelle Malkin, The Miami Herald)
  
  
• EU-wide petition for Christianity in Constitution | Following the beginning of the intergovernmental conference to finalize the draft Constitution, a campaign has been launched all over Europe for a reference to Europe's Christian heritage to be explicitly mentioned in the text (EU Observer)
  
  

First Amendment:

• Ovadal's beach rant ruled unconstitutional | A minister crossed the line of constitutionally protected free speech in a confrontation with a woman who had gone to a southern Wisconsin beach that allows nude sunbathing, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday (Associated Press)
  
  
• Campaign-finance, theology cases to be watched closely | Among the nearly 50 cases the Court has already docketed for the coming term, only two are direct First Amendment cases (Tony Mauro, First Amendment Center)
  
  
• Song raises ire of local atheist | Sherman threatening lawsuit (Wheeling Countryside, Ill.)
  
  

Marriage laws:

• Till the divorce law becomes legal | What have Malta, the Philippines, and Chile got in common? (BBC)
  
  
• Gay-marriage foes lose fight | Top court turns down their appeal bid; religious, family groups undaunted (The Toronto Star)
  
  
• Also: Same-sex appeal refused (Canadian Press)
  
  

Religious displays:

• Commandments monument is testament to states' rights | Folks can loathe Judge Roy Moore or love him, but no one should believe that we're dealing with some backwoods hick (Gregory Kane, The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Ten Commandments debate may arise | Lawmaker wants state to affirm it as vital to government (Dayton Daily News, Oh.)
  
  
• 500 rally for Commandments | Threatening skies did not deter demonstrators to show their resolve against a lawsuit to remove a framed copy of the Ten Commandments from the Habersham County Courthouse (The Gainesville Times, Fla.)
  
  
• Lawyer: City would lose legal fight | A First Amendment expert in Laramie said the city of Casper would lose if its officials decide to fight in court to keep a controversial Ten Commandments monument in City Park (Casper Star-Tribune, Wy.)
  
  
• Three seek to enter Bible suit | Group opposes removal of book outside courts building (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Family protests plaque | Victim's relatives don't want racial reconciliation display in courthouse (Chronicle-Tribune, Grant County, Ind.)
  
  

Mark Paschall's rules for jurors:

• Juror 'rule book' raises alarm | Jefferson County Treasurer Mark Paschall will continue distributing booklets that urge jurors to consider religious teachings in reaching their verdicts, even if he has to take county commissioners to court (Rocky Mountain News)
  
  

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