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Using the quarterback (who also plays basketball) to promote the ministry may constitute NCAA violations, especially if Jones received any compensation. The NCAA is investigating, but Smith says there's no problem.

"This is a young man that goes to school," he told the paper. "He gives back to his community and doesn't receive any money for it. We're not asking for any money for it. It's a sponsorship. I'm not trying to get rich like some televangelist."

Smith told the paper he'd be willing to remove references to Jones from the site, and now the whole site is gone. But thanks to Google's cache, several of the pages are still available, including the references to Jones and a bio of Smith.

More on life ethics:

• IVF 'body parts' twins plan condemned | Plans to create IVF twins and use the embryo of one as a source of spare body parts with which to treat the other, were condemned by experts (PA, U.K.)
  
  
• Revealed: Two British women die after taking controversial new abortion pill | Two British women have died after taking the controversial abortion pill RU-486, the Government has admitted. (The Telegraph, London)
  
  

Cloning:

• Scientist claims cloning, implanting human embryo | Some suspect Panos Zavos of a hoax, since he offered no evidence to support his claim (The Washington Post)
  
  
• The last step in battle for the clones? | The race to be first: The struggles behind Zavos' claim of clone embryo implant (Sunday Herald, Glasgow)
  
  
• Scientists pour scorn on doctor's human clone boast | Uproar at press conference as US fertility maverick drops genetic bombshell (The Observer, London)
  
  
• U.K. will 'never see cloned babies' | John Reid has said there will never be babies cloned in the UK "while I am Secretary of State for Health (BBC, video)
  
  
• Cloning and the first state | With a dishonest bill pending, Delaware looks to join New Jersey as a haven for human cloning (Wesley J. Smith, The Weekly Standard)
  
  

Conservative Episcopalians meet:

• Episcopalians seem set to launch faction | Conservative Episcopalians appeared on track to launch a new nationwide protest organization Tuesday as they began the second and final day of a meeting to launch their Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes (Associated Press)
  
  
• Conservatives to draw charter for Episcopalians | Episcopal conservatives, making good on their threats to form an ecclesiastical and legal shelter for theologically orthodox believers, meet today and tomorrow in a Dallas suburb to hammer out the details (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Episcopal Church leaders convene in Plano | Network aims to renew Anglicanism after gay bishop's consecration (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Local Episcopalian bishop to convene with conservatives | With a critical meeting in Texas just days away, rumblings of an impending split within the Episcopal Church USA will not go away—and the debate is turning rancorous (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• Episcopal leaders create 'church within a church' | Today, a founding group of more than 100 conservative Episcopal leaders will adopt a charter "to give hope to the orthodox of the Episcopal Church, with some sense there is a future." (The Washington Times)
  
  

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