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So far, Moore has announced no plans to seek another public office.

Roy Moore:

• Moore vows battle not over | Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore saw his last chance to regain his post fade away when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to hear his appeal. (Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.)
• Supreme Court rejects Commandments case | The three-year legal battle over ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and his Ten Commandments monument ended quietly Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) rejected Moore's final appeal. (Associated Press)
• Supreme Court adds weight to Moore ouster | Followers of former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore are no doubt disappointed the highest court in the land wouldn't hear his case. (Editorial, The Decatur Daily, Iowa)

U.S.—freedom of religious practice:

• An invidious prohibition | In July, a commission of the American Bar Association proposed a potentially momentous change to its Model Code of Judicial Conduct. That code, which both the federal government and many state governments have used as a guide, would now expand a prohibition against judges' membership in "discriminatory organizations" to include any group that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. (National Review Online)
• Comfortable culture dangerous | It's not hard to imagine a scenario where evangelical Christians began arguing that learning evolutionary theory is a traumatic experience for their children, an insensitive attack on a belief that is central to the evangelical identity: biblical literalism. (Minnesota Daily)

Religious freedom:

• The world will hate you | I have been in Thailand this week, near Bangkok, involved in meetings surrounding the issue of the persecuted church. Almost every region where persecution occurs is represented. The reports from all of these places have been both sobering and fascinating. (Roanoke Times, VA)
• 'Emulate Christian martyrs' | Vicar of the Saint Michael's Anglican Church, Coker Lagos, Venerable Joe Onyechefulechukwu Eziaghighala, yesterday urged Christians to emulate legacies of early Christians, particularly those who died for the faith. (This Day, Nigeria)
• Extremists crack down on liquor stores in Iraq | Militants have begun targeting shops, trying to enforce Islamic laws. Many owners have given up, while others hire guards or sell secretly. (Los Angeles Times)
• Iraq's Christians seek sanctuary in neighbor nations | Iraqi Christians flock to the Latin Catholic church in the Hashmi district of the Jordanian capital, a drab working-class area, where they celebrate mass in the ancient Chaldean language. (Assyrian International News Agency)
• Nine Iraqis, including seven Christians, killed in Baghdad ambush | Seven Iraqi Christians, their Muslim driver and his son were killed in an ambush on their minibus in the south of Baghdad earlier in the week, police said Saturday. (Agence France Presse)
• EU a fragile hope for Istanbul's Christians | Andrea is a "Rum," Tarin is Armenian, Giovanni a Levantine. For centuries, their communities served as bridges between Europe and the Ottoman Empire whose successor, Turkey, is now seeking full European Union membership. All three are Christian and favor the mainly Muslim country's entry into the EU and see in it a fragile hope for their disappearing cultures. (Agence France Presse)

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