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• Poll: Evangelicals See themselves as part of mainstream, still beleaguered (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Yesterday: Survey Gets Specific on Evangelical Attitudes—and Finds We Like the Pope Better than Robertson or Falwell (Weblog)
  
  

Gay marriage & homosexuality:

• Law exceeds city's power, lawyer says | He told the Pa. high court that Phila.'s same-sex benefits are an illegal attempt to redefine marriage (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Earlier: Pa. high court hears arguments on city same-sex partner benefits | The Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case that challenges a key city gay-rights ordinance (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• A firm voice against gay marriage | For Colo. lawmaker, it's an article of faith (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Rogue billboards cause a stir | A flap over a series of signs that condemn homosexuality is the talk of a town that's home to gay people and conservative Christians alike (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• State Senate okays putting proposal to ban gay marriage on ballot | The Senate gave final approval to a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, putting the issue on the November ballot for voters to decide (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
  
  
• Finding a compromise: Friendship Covenants | This would allow two friends, " regardless of whether or not they are involved in a sexual relationship with one another" to enter into a contractual relationship that would carry with it a package of kin-like and spouse-like privileges and benefits: the right to be involved in medical decisions and funeral arrangements, the right to inherit if the partner dies intestate, etc (David R. Carlin, Narragansett Times, R.I.)
  
  
• Marriage amendment is needed | Someone suggested we "celebrate commitment wherever we find it." That high-sounding statement ignores religious directives about homosexuality and flies in the face of human history (Steve Crain, The Pilot, Pinehurst, N.C.)
  
  
• Oklahoma abides by out-of-state adoptions by gays | Oklahoma's attorney general recently decided that when a child is born in that state and adopted in another state by a same-sex couple, Oklahoma must recognize the adoption and issue a birth certificate listing both homosexual partners as parents (The Washington Times)
  
  

Israel:

• Israel accused of confiscating church land | In a letter to President Bush, leaders of the Holy Land Christian Society accused Israel Tuesday of confiscating land from religious groups to make room for a barrier Israel is building into the West Bank (Associated Press)
  
  
• What the good book says: anti-Semitism, loosely defined | Merriam-Webster found itself on the defensive recently over a 40-year-old definition of "anti-Semitism" in its Third New International Dictionary (The New York Times)
  
  
• David Samuels interview | The inscription on the side of the James ossuary was widely translated as "James son of Joseph brother of Jesus." Now the ossuary is being called a fake. David Samuels' article "Written in Stone" is in the April 12, 2004 issue of the New Yorker magazine (The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC)
  
  
• In Israel, a new highway leads to an ancient Christian past | A Christian community from the Byzantine era, dating from either the fifth or sixth century, presented itself just to the west of bustling Highway 2, and right in the middle of the planned interchange on the southern edge of Netanya (The New York Times)
  
  

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