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• Both sides in Presbyterian same-sex marriage dispute disappointed | A Presbyterian Church (USA) minister who resigned in a dispute over same-sex marriages and the church member who sought to rebuke him for performing them said Wednesday they foresee a time of tumult that could split the 2.5 million-member denomination (Associated Press)
  
  

Children:

• Adoption bills net praise, protest | Adoption agencies would be allowed to use moral and religious judgments when placing children in homes, under a set of bills proposed by a Lapeer County lawmaker (The Flint Journal, Mi.)
  
  
• Bishop calls for total ban on smacking | A bishop will try in the House of Lords today to outlaw parents smacking children (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Baby boy abandoned at church door | A newborn abandoned on the doorsteps of a church will be placed in state custody after the blond-haired boy is released from a hospital, police said (The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.)
  
  

Education:

• Abandoning public schools is not the Christian thing to do | The school my kids attend has shown absolutely no hostility toward Christianity or religion (Phil Valentine, Williamson County Review Appeal, Tenn.)
  
  
• £8m Catholic-Anglican school plan | A Wrexham school is to become the first joint Catholic and Anglican secondary school in Wales (BBC)
  
  

Business:

• On sale at Urban Outfitters: irreverence | Funky retailer is lightning rod for controversy (Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.)
  
  
• Some former customers angered by Christian dating service | Owner points to other success stories as evidence that it works (WFAA, Dallas)
  
  

Media:

• Daystar asks FCC to freeze KOCE sale | Christian broadcaster claims the board of KOCE-TV foundation doesn't represent the local community (The Independent, Huntington Beach, Ca.)
  
  
• Newspaper remains agnostic about voices on Catholicism | It is not for us to referee contests within the Catholic Church over who is legitimate and who is not. (Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Culkin gets 'Saved!' from his crazy past | He giggles as he remembers one U-2 sound-alike Christian band where "a pastor gets up there and he's quoting Pink and Madonna more than the Bible, I mean it's crazy" (Zap2It.com)
  
  

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