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• Hysteria and the general | Boykin has a right to his faith, and he has a right to testify to that faith in a way dictated by his own conscience (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Bush distances self from general | Boykin's opinion "just doesn't reflect what the government thinks," president tells reporters (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Also: Bush says he disagrees with general's remarks on religion (The New York Times)
  
  
• Top Saudi adviser outraged by Boykin's words on Islam | "If you switched the religions around," Abdel al-Jubeir told reporters at the Saudi Embassy, "the words could have been said by Osama bin Laden." (UPI)
  
  

Politics:

• GOP should terminate the Christian right | The Christian right has so alienated women that it has opened up a gender gap that often swells to more than 20 points, crippling Republican candidates. (Dick Morris, The Hill, D.C.)
  
  
• Dean gets standing ovation from Arab-Americans | By attacking religious conservatives (Reuters)
  
  
• Democrats and Republicans trade accusations at confirmation hearing | Accuse each other of racial and religious McCarthyism (The New York Times)
  
  
• Foes of idle hands, Amish contest a child labor law | The Amish just want to be let alone, he said, but the federal government is meddling in their lives and livelihoods by fining Amish sawmills and woodworking shops that employ teenagers, in violation of child labor law (The New York Times)
  
  
• Bible battle | East Lansing endorsement of 'Bible Week' unneccessary, blurs separation of government, religion (Editorial, The State News, Mich.)
  
  
• Virtue is its own drawback | One pops pills. Another gambles. Another lets her mother die alone. Yet these are Bush's virtue-mongers (John Sutherland, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Prayer must go because it's exclusive | Parliament is not acting constitutionally (Matt Robson, New Zealand Herald)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Content of abortion information debated | Law requires offering data before procedure (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Abortion vote leaves many in the Senate conflicted | Some Democratic senators, many of them strong advocates of abortion rights, voted for the first federal ban on a specific abortion procedure with some misgivings (The New York Times)
  
  
• The battle for Terri | Even after Terri's Law was passed, Michael Schiavo fought to secure his wife's death. Now that she's still alive, he won't allow her parents to visit her (Wesley J. Smith, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• Scorning the courts in Florida | The actions of Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida State Legislature in the Terry Schiavo case mock the courts' careful deliberations over her right to die (Editorial, The New York Times)
  
  

Education:

• Bill seeks neutral politics at colleges | U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston plans to file a bill that would put Congress on record as encouraging colleges and universities to be neutral when it comes to politics (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Also: Bill backs academic freedom | But doesn't apply to religious colleges (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Outfitted with placards and prayer | Students from Patrick Henry College planting political seeds (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Private Christian school sued after gay student expelled | School isn't commenting (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fla.)
  
  
• Religion degree? Can't get one here | But situation is changing slowly at Utah colleges (Deseret Morning News)
  
  
• Dress codes vs. religious practice: What kind of nation are we? | Student whose religion requires her to wear head scarf should not be subjected to rules designed to curb gang activity (Charles Haynes, First Amendment Center)
  
  

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October (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47