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10 Commandments:

• Moral versus legal | Lawmakers want to show support for Commandments (The Newark [Oh.] Advocate)
  
  
• Ten Commandments on minds of Ohio lawmakers | Finding little support in the courts, some Ohio lawmakers want to make a statement about the link between the Ten Commandments and the U.S. system of government (Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, Pa.)
  
  
• Ten Commandments supporters rally on Capitol lawn | Replica of Alabama chief justice's monument ends 5-state tour (CNN)
  
  
• Ten Commandments caravan arrives | Passionate sides debate separation of church and state (The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.)
  
  
• Georgia county heeds Commandments | Another clash with the ACLU prompts the locals to rally (The Huntsville Times, Ala.)
  
  
• Ala. judge takes biblical laws case to Md. | Christians' rights labeled at risk (The Washington Post)
  
  

More on politics and law:

• Dispute over cross pits church vs. Broward County | A dispute about whether one of Broward County's largest churches can erect a religious display at the Holiday Festival of Lights threatens the popular show at Tradewinds Park (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• Church, Broward fight over big cross | Broward County and one of the area's largest churches are at odds over church plans to erect a religious display during a December light show at a park (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Schools try to handle religious holidays | Schedulers work to minimize conflicts but can't entirely avoid overlaps with Yom Kippur, Easter and other observances (The Oregonian)
  
  
• Church and state | How much do voters care about the religious beliefs of candidates? (The Sacramento Bee)
  
  
• Church's plan: pray for leaders | The church is adopting one or more politicians each month in a prayer campaign it calls Civic Leader of the Month (The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)
  
  
• Church politics at odds with law | People, typically, are unnerved by change. And when the congregation is more than half black, as is the case here, some are more than unnerved (Fred Snowflack, Daily Record, Parsippany, NJ)
  
  
• Governments that abandon religion make room for death | The effort to remove religious symbols from our public life represents a dangerous departure from the heritage of a free people (Michael S. Heath, Portland Press-Herald, Maine)
  
  
• European bishops urge mention of Christianity in new EU constitution | The final talks on hammering out the first EU constitution were launched in Rome on Saturday but are expected to last several months (AFP)
  
  
• Chirac rebuffs calls on Christianity reference in EU Constitution | President Chirac said Saturday France could not support giving greater prominence to Christianity in the constitution because that would go against the country's secular tradition (Voice of America)
  
  

Passion and movies:

• Who'll buy Mel's movie? | Probably not a major studio, but an indie just might bite (Newsweek)
  
  
• Mel's Passion gives John's 'Word' new venom | From beginning to end, the fourth gospel is an anti-Jewish tract (Terry Lane, The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Gibson movie opens old wounds of anti-Semitism | Gibson seems oblivious to the fact that biblical "accounts" of the Crucifixion are not really accounts at all, at least not in the journalistic sense of the word (R. Scott Colglazier, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
  
  
• X-treme Christians | Though many don't know it, Stephen Baldwin, the actor known for his role as a career criminal in the "The Usual Suspects" and, most recently, as part of the cast on ABC's reality show "Celebrity Mole," is a born-again Christian (The Oregonian)
  
  

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October (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47