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• Preachy pilot needs a new flight plan | If Capt. Rodger Findiesen believes he is on a mission from God, amen to that. Let him go forth and plant the seeds of understanding where the ears have the choice of whether to listen. And where the guy telling people to put their hands up isn't flying tons of combustible metal through the clouds (Susan Paynter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  

Georgia evolution proposal:

• Georgia evolution flap prompts proposal | A short-lived plan to delete the word "evolution" from Georgia's science curriculum inspired lawmakers to propose new rules Monday for how the state decides what to teach in schools (Associated Press)
  
  
• E-word brings out the e-mail | Lots of people hit the roof after state Schools Superintendant Kathy Cox proposed that evolution be downplayed in Georgia's public schools. I joined the critics, in three columns, and readers bombarded me with mail (Colin Campbell, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  

Religion and gay marriage:

• Religious beliefs underpin opposition to homosexuality | Opposition to gay marriage has increased since the summer and a narrow majority of Americans also oppose allowing gays and lesbians to enter legal agreements that fall short of marriage. Moreover, despite the overall rise in tolerance toward gays since the 1980s, many Americans remain highly critical of homosexuals and religious belief is a major factor in these attitudes (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life)
  
  
• Not quite as liberal as they look | Controversy over gay unions — along with a new argument about whether to enter the national fight over marriage in its civil form — may soon rival the gay-ordination issue as liberal Protestantism's worst headache (Time)
  
  
• Top clerics join to support amendment | Escalating the campaign against the legalization of same-sex marriage, many of the most prominent religious figures in Massachusetts issued statements this weekend calling on the Legislature to preserve marriage as a heterosexual institution (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Black clergy rejection stirs gay marriage backers | The three major associations of Greater Boston's black clergy, exercising their considerable influence within the minority community and asserting moral authority on civil rights matters, have shaken up the debate over same-sex marriage with their insistence that the quest by gays and lesbians for marriage licenses is not a civil rights issue (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Document: Black clergy statement on marriage (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Conservatives use gay union as rallying cry | Arlington meeting gave birth to a concerted campaign for a constitutional amendment blocking gay marriage that some Christian conservative leaders say is helping revitalize their movement (The New York Times)
  
  
• Boston anti-gay marriage rally draws 2,000 | Boston Archbishop Sean O'Malley said gay marriage would have an "enormously negative impact on our society," drawing cheers from people at a rally on Sunday in an ongoing battle over a Massachusetts court ruling that gives same-sex couples the right to marry (Reuters)
  
  

Massachusetts constitutional amendment:

• Amendment would turn gay marriages into unions | Lawmakers get proposal today (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Constitutional showdown set on marriage | Massachusetts lawmakers are gathering today to consider an amendment to the state constitution that would define marriage as only the union between one man and one woman (The Washington Times)
  
  

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February (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48