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• Also: Religious right joins forces against gay marriage | Constitutional ban is goal of coalition (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans)
  
  
• Gay marriage stirs conservatives again | Right wing braces for Mass. ruling (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• When courts reinvent marriage | While it is not surprising to see some on the political left embrace a radical new meaning of marriage, what has been surprising and disappointing is the confusion among some on the right who claim that a proposal to preserve marriage through a constitutional amendment violates the principle of federalism and restricts liberty (Gary Bauer, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Gays right to marry? | As a staunch believer in fundamental rights, I can no more oppose gay marriage than equal access to education, housing or the right to vote regardless of gender or race (Suzanna Walters, The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Save marriage in court | The problem is not with the Constitution, but the courts (Richard Lessner, The Washington Times)
  
  

More on sex and marriage:

• California leads on civil unions | Vermont has 776 unionized couples. Compare that to 22,000 California couples who've already signed on to an earlier, spottier version of its registry, with more to come once the legal upgrade takes effect (E.J. Graff, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Chile inches toward a law that would make divorce legal | After a 120-year battle, Chile is on the threshold of approving a complex law that would lift the prohibition on divorces (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church groups confront archaic marital traditions | The Roman Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) and the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), have mounted campaigns to rid traditions that enslave young girls and women into unwanted sexual and marriage relationships (African Church Information Service)
  
  
• Gay church beginning to win acceptance | Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches marks its 35th anniversary with a series of weekend events beginning Friday (Associated Press)
  
  
• N.Y. to seek dismissal of antigay suit | City attorneys are expected today to seek dismissal of a lawsuit that would strip a high school for homosexuals of its public funding, arguing that there is no merit to the complaint (The Washington Times)
  
  

Ten Commandments:

• Liberty, justice icons are more appropriate | Religion makes stranger comrades in arms than politics (Editorial, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.)
  
  
• More Moore | Chief justice makes case to U.S. Supreme Court (Editorial, The Birmingham News)
  
  
• Lufkin rally backs Commandments | More than 2,000 people gathered for a rally in East Texas as part of a national movement to protest the removal of a monument depicting the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building (Associated Press)
  
  
• Commandments trial starts Oct. 20 | A trial scheduled to begin Oct. 20 before a federal judge in Gainesville could decide the future for Ten Commandments displays in government buildings (The Gainesville Times, Fla.)
  
  
• Americans approve of public displays of religious symbols | Majority of Americans favor displays of all religions, not just Christian (Gallup News Service)
  
  

Education:

• Unintelligent designs on academic freedom | The academic freedom that so incensed Bill Buckley as a student at Yale decades ago is now acting to protect a conservative scholar under fire at Baylor U. (The American Spectator)
  
  

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