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• Woman says sign, monument the same | Why can a Ten Commandments roadsign be in full public view without controversy and Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument can't? (Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.)
  
  
• Moore wants Pryor off case | Moore's attorneys contend that Pryor and his office have had a history of defending Moore and his stand on the Ten Commandments (Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.)
  
  
• Court remands fee request in Moore case | A federal appeals court gave the state another chance Friday to oppose a request for nearly $78,000 in fees and expenses for a lawyer who sued to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the state judicial building rotunda (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  
• Ten Commandments bill introduced | A copy of the Ten Commandments would be displayed in the U.S. Capitol under a bill introduced Tuesday in Congress by members from Alabama and Florida (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  
• Moore efforts to remove Pryor renewed | Lawyers for suspended Chief Justice Roy Moore on Thursday renewed efforts to disqualify Attorney General Bill Pryor from prosecuting Moore on ethics charges (The Birmingham News, Ala.)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Lesbian UCC minister ordained in western N.C. | First for region highlights debate over 'how we interpret the Bible' (Southern Voice [gay newspaper])
  
  
• Offstage drama over school play | Proponents say `The Laramie Project' is a lesson in tolerance, but others call it an opportunity to push a homosexual agenda in area high schools (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Scalia ridicules court's gay sex ruling | Tells Intercollegiate Studies Institute that the ruling ignores the Constitution in favor of a modern, liberal sensibility (Associated Press)
  
  
• Court decision may change vote on anti-gay marriage amendment | As gay advocates prepared for the first-ever Statehouse hearing on legalizing same-sex marriages, key lobbyists said Wednesday that legislative support could be building for a bill that would do the exact opposite (Associated Press)
  
  
• Swedish church takes step towards gay marriages | Senior clerics voted to draft an order of service for such a ceremony (Reuters)
  
  
• Church open to same-sex benefits talk | Bishop says marriage laws cannot change (The Boston Globe)
  
  

Abuse:

• Ex-mentor at L.I. church is charged with sodomy | A former youth minister at a Long Island Roman Catholic parish was arraigned on Thursday on a felony charge that he sodomized a teenager he had met through the church, police said (The New York Times)
  
  
• Accusers of one priest reject church deal | Hope to prove that Paul Shanley abused them while church leaders ignored their allegations and tried to cover up the scandal (Associated Press)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Shoe box charity in religious row | Operation Christmas Child withdrawn after claims the charity was sending evangelizing literature in the gift boxes (BBC)
  
  
• The mystery of the missing links | It is becoming fashionable to question Darwinism, but few people understand either the arguments for evolution or the arguments against it (Mary Wakefield, The Spectator, U.K.)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Church of Scotland's first woman leader, Ecumenical Patriarch urges EU to refer to Christian heritage in new constitution, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  

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