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'Justice Sunday':

• Frist set to use religious stage on judicial issue | Senator Bill Frist will participate in a telecast portraying Democrats as "against people of faith" for blocking the president's nominees (The New York Times)
• Justice Sunday | The Family Research Council says anticlerical judges pose a greater danger than al-Qaeda (Rob Garver, The American Prospect)
• Justice Sunday: Stop the Filibuster Against People of Faith (Family Research Council)

Politics:

• Believers aim to 'reclaim' America | People of faith are confronting the gathering tide of secularism and a coarser culture in a variety of ways (The Washington Times)
• Preaching to candidates unconverted | Evangelical Christian ministers beseeched voters on Wednesday to defeat the mayoral candidates who support same-sex marriage (The New York Times)
• House GOP kills Dems' latest ethics move | Call to prayer echoes 2000 chaplain controversy, some say (Associated Press)
• Senate panel to vote FDA chief soon, chairman says | The U.S. Senate health committee chairman said on Thursday he had dismissed allegations in a "smudged" anonymous letter and planned on his panel voting this month to confirm Lester Crawford as the new Food and Drug commissioner (Reuters)
• The true meaning of a fundamentalist Christian | As Christians, Falwell et al need work on the fundamentals (Byron Williams, WorkingForChange.com)
• Left gets religion about God | The success of the religious right is emboldening some liberals to set aside their usual qualms about keeping church separate from state (Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times)
• Is Bush an evangelical? | Maybe. Maybe not. But let's get to the real question: Is Bono? (Religion News Service)

Church and state:

• High court asked to end religious teatime | A small Christian group's drinking of ceremonial tea could be curtailed if the Bush administration has its way before the Supreme Court (Legal Times)
• Does Pa. believe in God? | If our kids really were taught Pennsylvania history -- other than just learning the state name roughly means "Penn's woods" -- they would understand the symbiotic relationship among God, Christianity and religious tolerance in the founding of the state (Dimitri Vassilaros, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• I'm uneasy with Jesus' law-enforcement system | We Christians are the worst about depending on law enforcement to tell us whether we are good people (Doug Mendenhall, Huntsville Times, Ala.)
• Moses on a big rig | The Ten Commandments have become a golden calf (Janet MacFarlane, CommonDreams.org)

Public prayer:

• Wiccan bias suit against Va. county dismissed | A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the way Chesterfield County conducts the invocation at its Board of Supervisors meetings, dismissing a lawsuit filed by a local Wiccan priestess who said she was excluded from leading the brief prayer (The Washington Post)
• 4th Circuit rejects Wiccan's bid to lead prayer at county meetings | Judges say Virginia board of supervisors has included leaders from a variety of religions and therefore hasn't advanced any one faith (Associated Press)

Education:

• Evolution flap riles East Porter | The East Porter County School Board has delayed the adoption of biology textbooks because they don't mention creationism, a theory that a divine being is responsible for the creation of life (Post-Tribune, Merrillville, Ind)
• Board gets a taste of evolution debate | The State Board of Education questions intelligent design proponents in a preview of next month's hearings (The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)

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