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• Bush touts faith-based plan in Houston | Visiting a community center in a converted southwest side Kmart, President Bush on Friday passionately defended his proposals for federally supported faith-based programs that have run into stiff resistance in Congress (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Pay attention to these trends | The theologies and practices of faithful people often drive political trends (William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• 'Who would Jesus tax?' | Don't confuse religion in politics with the right wing—think of the abolitionist, labor, and civil rights movements (Jonathan Zimmerman, The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Should God be in public square? | The founders held that all men are created equal, but that all beliefs are not (Gregory A. Thornbury, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis)
  
  
• Cross ruling a victory for our country | The recent ruling by a Kentucky federal court in favor of a Logan County woman who was fired from her job for wearing a cross is a victory not only for her, but for thousands of Americans who wish to silently express their religious faith in the workplace (Editorial, Bowling Green Daily News, Ky.)
  
  
• Catholic Church tells rebels to leave | The Blantyre Archdiocese of the Catholic Church said on Monday people who do not agree with the church's sermons on politics, justice, and peace are free to leave the church and stop calling themselves Catholics (The Nation, Blantyre, Malawi)
  
  
• France says no to Christianity in Constitution | "France is a lay state and as such she does not have a habit of calling for insertions of a religious nature into constitutional texts", the French President told reporters (EU Observer)
  
  

Ten Commandments:

• ACLU: No appeal in plaque case | The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented a Chester County atheists' group in a Ten Commandments lawsuit against the Chester County commissioners, has announced that its attorneys won't appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court (Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa.)
  
  
• Also: Plaque decision pleases many | Chester County residents remain supportive of the religious document's place in the courthouse and community (Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa.)
  
  
• Also: Full past coverage of Chester County case (Daily Local News)
  
  
• Church-state dispute hits home | Suit over Ten Commandments at Texas Capitol may reach Supreme Court (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Ten Commandments judge brings cause to Houston | Top jurist pledges to take monument issue to the nation (Houston Chronicle)
  
  
• Polk rock's historic codes could become its salvation | Defy the Ten Commandments, written by the finger of God, and incur his wrath. Surround the Judeo-Christian tenets with other pieces of history, and perhaps the masses will spare theirs (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Could Missouri have Ten Commandments problem? | That's what some conservatives say (Hannibal Courier-Post)
  
  
• They've fallen off the top 10 list | Read closely: The Ten Commandments reflect a primitive worldview (Alan Dershowitz, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• 10 Commandments: A thin wall divides state from church | Debate was not about religion or religious values. It was about religious symbols. God wasn't the issue; rather, it was a 4-foot-high, 5,280-pound block of granite (Ira Youdovin, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• The Ten Commandments and American law | Why some Christians' claims to legal hegemony are not consistent with the historical record (Marci Hamilton, Findlaw.com)
  
  

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