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• Losing a Church, keeping the faith | The church has gone beyond its doctrinal opposition to emotional or sexual relationships between gay men and lesbians to an outspoken and increasingly shrill campaign against them. (Andrew Sullivan, New York Times)
  
  

Islam:

• French examine selves with Muslim crisis | Today, battle lines are being drawn over another religious emblem, the Islamic head scarf, which some French see as a threat to their nation's core values and unity. (AP)
  
  
• New Afghan constitution juggles Koran and Democracy | The question now facing Afghans is: how to devise a constitution that combines the country's deep-rooted Islamic traditions and its aspirations for democracy? (New York Times)
  
  
• A warning from dial-a-fatwa | According to an e-mail from an American Muslim group, I've received fatwa ruling number 2/882, writes Raheel Raza (Toronto Star)
  
  

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