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So Weblog was just finishing up its collection of links Tuesday when the online VatiCam started showing white smoke. Weblog got distracted and forgot to post those Tuesday links. Since then, it's been a bit difficult finding religion stories that aren't about the new pope, but we're still digging them out for you. With a bit of grace, we'll be caught up next week (though the Evangelical Press Association is coming to town … ). Thanks for your patience.

Religion & politics:

• Focus faction attacks Salazar | Springs group pushes for Bush court picks (Rocky Mountain News)
• Psst … Justice Scalia … you know, you're an activist judge, too | When it comes to judicial activism, conservative judges are no better—and no worse—than liberal ones (Adam Cohen, The New York Times)
• Evangelicals cool to Bush's focus on Social Security accounts | Some evangelical leaders, though not all, now express dismay with both Bush's priorities and his Social Security proposal, which they say could hurt their predominantly working class constituency (Bloomberg)
• Faith-based pandering | Frist's mad pursuit of the presidency requires him to prove to the Christian right, the core of the Republican Party, that its cause comes before his principles (Richard Cohen, The Washington Post)
• Christians in lion's clothing | These days, being a card-carrying member of the so-called "anti-Christian left" may be the better part of valor, democratically speaking. Too many Christians, indeed (Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Henry Hyde to retire from Congress:

• Hyde will retire from Congress | The Hyde amendment worked (The New York Times)
• U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde to retire in 2006 | Stalwart against abortion cites health issues (Associated Press)

Marriage & family:

• Married with problems? Therapy may not help | Does marital therapy work? Not nearly as well as it should, researchers say (The New York Times)
• Divorce rate: It's not as high as you think | Though the number of divorces has been rising in the United States, more married couples stay together than divorce (The New York Times)

Life ethics:

• From myth to reality | Scientists can create animals with the cells of other species, but are these chimeras medical marvels or high-tech monsters? (The Boston Globe)
• Pharmacies balk on after-sex pill and widen fight in many states | The debate has attracted many of the same advocates and prompted much of the same intensity as the fight over abortion (The New York Times)

Abortion clinic "buffer zones" on free speech allowed:

• Mass. abortion clinic law allowed to stand | US Supreme Court declines an appeal (The Boston Globe)
• Court won't rule on clinic buffer zones | The Supreme Court yesterday declined to take up the question of whether states are in violation of the Constitution when they enforce "buffer zones" around abortion clinics to keep protesters away (The Washington Times)

Church & state:

• Purging religious influence | God is dead, at least in the chambers of the Colorado Supreme Court (Bruce Fein, The Washington Times)
• Air Force cadets see religious harassment | Less than two years after it was plunged into a rape scandal, the Air Force Academy is scrambling to address complaints that evangelical Christians wield so much influence at the school that anti-Semitism and other forms of religious harassment have become pervasive (Associated Press)

Supreme Court to hear religious freedom vs. drug case:

• Supreme Court to hear case of dispute over religious group's use of banned drug | The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the government can ban the importation of a hallucinogenic tea used by a church in New Mexico (The New York Times)

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