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Gay marriage:

• Is the end of the family near? | Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson says it could be if homosexual marriage is legalized. (Family News in Focus, Focus on the Family)
  
  
• Now Portland is gay-marriage capital | For at least this week, Portland is the place to go for marriage-minded gay couples (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Tenn. county retreats from gay ban | The county that was the site of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution Thursday reversed its call to ban homosexuals (Associated Press)
  
  
• San Francisco perseveres on gay marriage | City officials asked the California Supreme Court on Thursday to allow the resumption of gay marriages (Associated Press)
  
  
• Lawmaker seeks to impeach judge on homophobia ruling | A state lawmaker wants to impeach a Denver judge who ordered a former lesbian not to teach her child anything homophobic, a decision that critics of judicial activism say is more troubling than recent court rulings supporting gay marriage (Associated Press)
  
  
• For children of gays, marriage brings joy | The 2000 census reported that 594,000 households in the United States were headed by same-sex partners, a figured considered by some experts to be conservative. Of those, about 33 percent of lesbian couples reported having children 18 years old or under, while 22 percent of male couples did (The New York Times)
  
  
• City hall steps: pulpit, and now an altar | A rabbi and an Episcopal minister defied state law yesterday to perform three same-sex marriage ceremonies on the City Hall steps, but the Manhattan district attorney declined to file any charges (The New York Times)
  
  
• Crocodile tears | Advocates of homosexual marriage only strategically lament the decline of traditional marriage (Joel Belz, World)
  
  
• Constitutional ploy/Nonsense about gay marriage | There's only one reason to hack into the Constitution to forbid gay marriage: to emphasize that this society simply doesn't consider gay men and lesbians to be full-fledged citizens (Editorial, Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  

Spain:

• Spain will legalize gay 'marriages'—Zapatero | Spain will legalize gay unions, although it may not call them marriages, incoming prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Thursday, but he did not set a time-frame for the move (Reuters)
  
  
• Spain 'to approve gay marriages' | Spanish Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero says he is in favour of allowing same-sex marriages (BBC)
  
  
• De profundis | The following is the prayer, said on Monday for the victims of the terrorist attack in Madrid, by Javier Ruperez, Spain's ambassador to the U.S., at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  

Other articles of interest:

• Ministry to reclaim Billy Graham's old home | Now in Fort Mill, house will be moved, restored (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• Akron exhibit draws back veil that surrounds scrolls | Story of Bible told in display at Knight Center (Akron Beach Journal, Oh.)
  
  
• Ignorance is bliss | Do teenagers want to turn back the moral clock? Are they really more reactionary than their parents? (David McKie, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Artists attempt to capture a cathedral | For members of a statewide art club, the L.A. church is a 'visual feast.' A display is planned for summer (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Religion news in brief | Church membership figures, Planned Parenthood chaplain, Billy Graham's home, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  

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