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• [Deity reference deleted] | A look into our future (Rich Lowry, National Review Online)
  
  

Church and state:

• Humansville board tackles lawsuit over biblical plaque | Nearly 100 attend meeting where lines are drawn for a fight (The News-Leader, Springfield, Mo.)
  
  
• Headscarf issue causes ripples in Italy | The debate over headscarves that divided France has reached Italy, with a kindergarten asking a Muslim trainee teacher to remove her headscarf because it might frighten children (Associated Press)
  
  
• Witch museum owner gets apology | The Tuscola County Board of Commissioners is officially sorry for the way it treated the atheist proprietor of Anonka's Witch Museum (The Bay City Times, Mi.)
  
  
• Oregon court upholds rejection of church building plan | Salem neighborhood protested Mormon church's proposal to build meetinghouse, parking lot amid homes (Associated Press)
  
  
• Michigan Family Independence Agency says religion is forced at center | Youth home is fighting moratorium in court (Detroit Free Press)
  
  

Crime:

• How will leaders address hoax allegations? | Federal and local authorities have accused visiting Claremont-McKenna College Professor Kerri Dunn of lying when she said someone vandalized her car with racial and religious slurs March 9 (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Cross is burned on Arlington lawn of black minister | Pastor Jason Martin was sleeping while a cross burned in his front yard (The Seattle Times)
  
  

Former Archbishop of Canterbury criticizes Islam:

• Carey's Islam comments condemned | Muslims claim a former Archbishop of Canterbury who criticised Islamic culture is "recycling" prejudice (BBC)
  
  
• Muslim culture has contributed little for centuries, says Carey | Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, launched a trenchant attack on Islamic culture last night, saying it was authoritarian, inflexible and under-achieving (The Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Islamic world is violent, says Carey | The Islamic world is a violent, authoritarian and undemocratic place, according to Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Muslims reject Carey's 'anti-Islam' speech | In a speech at the Gregorian University in Rome last night, Lord Carey of Clifton said that Islam was inflexible and authoritarian, and Islamic countries were backward and underachieving (The Times, London)
  
  
• Carey speech on Islam in full | Address given by Lord Carey of Clifton at the Gregorian University, Rome, on Thursday, March 25 in which he criticised Islamic culture and regimes (The Times, London)
  
  

Episcopalians:

• Bishops offer new plan to gay dissenters | But conservative activists rejected a very similar proposal last November, and one cleric said that the new plan was "dead on arrival" (Associated Press)
  
  
• Episcopal bishops reach pact on dissent | They offer under certain circumstances to allow visiting prelates to minister to the dissenting parishes (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Episcopalians forge compromise | The Episcopal House of Bishops, meeting behind closed doors in Texas yesterday, came up with a compromise resolution on how conservative congregations in a liberal diocese can get ministry from an outside bishop (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Oversight plan 'silly,' Episcopal priest says | One of the leaders of the conservative group that has challenged the Episcopal Church over the consecration of a homosexual bishop labeled a plan for oversight of conservative parishes as inadequate and unacceptable (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Hunting for a healer | San Diego Episcopal diocese must carefully choose a new bishop at a divisive time for the denomination (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  

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