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African Anglicans to reject funds from gay-friendly churches:

• African churches take stand against gays | Anglican archbishops from Africa said Thursday they would reject donations from any diocese that recognizes gay clergy and recommended giving the Episcopal Church in the United States three months to repent for ordaining an openly gay bishop (Associated Press)
  
  
• African clergy reject 'gay' funds | Africa's Anglican bishops have resolved to stop receiving donations from western congregations which support the ordination of gay bishops (BBC)
  
  
• US church 'must repent' for gay bishop decision | African archbishops intensified the threat to the unity of the worldwide Anglican communion last night, and increased pressure on Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, by insisting that the US Episcopal Church must be disciplined within three months unless it "repents" for electing a gay bishop (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Also: Conservative Episcopal churches ban bishop-elect | A man set to be Ohio's next Episcopal bishop has been banned from five northeast Ohio churches that disagree with his support of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire (Associated Press)
  
  

Mass. gay marriage:

• Romney seeks authority to delay same-sex marriage | Legislature poised to reject governor's bill (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Romney makes a move in gay-marriage battle | Mass. governor requests power to seek a court stay (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Romney moves to get vote on same-sex 'marriage' | Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday filed emergency legislation that would allow him to ask the state's highest court to stay its order legalizing same-sex "marriage" until state residents could vote on the issue (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Mass. governor moves to block gay marriage | Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney filed emergency legislation on Thursday to freeze a court order that directs the state to issue marriage licenses to gay couples next month (Reuters)
  
  

Gay marriage elsewhere:

• Catholic church launches campaign against gay marriages | The Catholic church will oppose gay marriages even if penalized under new legislation, the Bishop of Palmerston North, Peter Cullinane, said (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• 6 gay couples fight state ban on marriage in tax-day protest | For the second time in less than two months, same-sex couples have filed a legal challenge to a Florida law that limits marriage to a man and a woman (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• Gay couples' suit pulls state into debate | Before a small crowd of supporters, six South Florida couples file a lawsuit decrying Florida's gay marriage ban as illegal (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Couples sue to end Florida's gay marriage ban | Gay rights advocates representing six same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses in Florida filed suit on Thursday asking a judge to overturn the state's ban on gay marriages (Reuters)
  
  
• Something's lost should battle for gay marriage be won | To bring the definition of marriage under the umbrella of personal sexual choice is nothing short of cultural suicide (Modesto Bee, Ca.)
  
  

Religion & homosexuality:

• Mission to install gay Lutheran associate pastor | Although no longer ordained, San Bernardino officials say she is qualified (The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Ca.)
  
  
• Pastors step from pulpit into public fight over gay marriage | Christian clerics are aggressively fighting against gay marriage (Statesman Journal, Salem, Ore.)
  
  
• Status seekers | Will homosexuals go after the tax-exempt status of groups that oppose their lifestyle? (Joel Belz, World)
  
  

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