Weblog: Separation of Church and Store
Plus: Bulldozing a church, murdering an atheist, Britain's designer babies, and apparently today is Election Day.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 11/01/2004 12:00AM

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Spanking in Britain:
- MPs due to vote on smacking ban | Proposals to limit - but not ban - the right of parents to smack their children are back before MPs (BBC)
- Blair acts to rule out a total ban on smacking | The campaign to ban parents from smacking children was on the verge of collapse today (The Evening Standard, London)
More articles of interest:
- Amish families open homes to tourists | Although their faith requires a distance from the outside world, a dozen Amish families in northeast Ohio welcome visitors to their homes to give them a taste of their culture (Associated Press)
- Modern China rethinks Confucianism | The once-reviled teachings of the ancient Chinese sage and statesman Confucius have made a comeback and are being taught to some five million students across the country (The Straits Times, Singapore)
- The God bug | Where Mark C. Taylor should be pulling together all the disparate threads of his book, Confidence Games, he instead descends into a rant about American conservative Christianity (The New York Sun)
- New Bedford priest faces child porn investigation | A New Bedford priest who allegedly stored child pornography on his personal computer was recently placed on leave from his parish while authorities investigate the electronic obscenities, officials from the Catholic Diocese of Fall River and the Bristol district attorney's office said yesterday (The Boston Globe)
- A veteran finds an ally in his inner war | Ralph Burkhardt, a veteran fallen on hard times, comes home each night to the sight of the man who reminds him to keep smiling (The New York Times)
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