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It's a bit of a slow news day when your headlines is about British royalty. There are some interesting items below, but we'll spare you the commentary today. By the way, if you missed it, there were two Weblogs yesterday, not just one. Here's the morning posting, and the afternoon update.

Prince Charles & Camilla:

• The Church, Charles, and Camilla | The Archbishop of Canterbury has welcomed the announcement that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are to marry (BBC)
• Archbishop to lead prayers after Charles-Camilla ceremony | According to reports, Rowan Williams dropped his objections to the marriage after a confidential meeting with the prince (The Telegraph, London)
• A radical union | How Charles and Camilla have plotted their way through a minefield of rules and sensitivities (Stephen Bates, The Guardian, London)

Church & state:

• Greek Goddess statue causes conflict of Herculean proportions | Sculpture erected in 1908 by the Women's Christian Temperance Union now "divisive" (Associated Press)
• America isn't a 'Christian' nation | It has been only four months since the election, but already we have discovered fissures in this special relationship between evangelicals and Jews (Shmuley Boteach, The Jerusalem Post)
• Protecting the faith | Eroding America's - and Virginia's - wall of separation between church and state would do more to harm religion than to help it (Editorial, The Roanoke Times, Va.)
• The 60% solution | Worried about the ACLU? Display only the commandments Jesus taught us (Gregg Easterbrook, The Wall Street Journal)

Immigration & asylum:

• House to vote on immigration bill | The administration wants Congress to abolish the annual limit on the number of asylum recipients who can get permanent residency, and asked for changes to ensure the bill doesn't create new barriers to obtaining asylum (Associated Press)
• House immigrants bill gets White House okay | Asylum measures in the bill have drawn heavy criticism from several religious and human rights groups and Democrats (Associated Press)
• Airports treat asylum cases differently | A report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom found extreme variation in the handling of potential asylum cases at different airports (The New York Times)

Politics:

• Assembly works on prayer, marriage | Plans would change Virginia constitution (The Washington Post)
• Let's legislate consensus-building | A successful bridge-building process on faith-based public services can be duplicated on other issues (John Marks and Susan Collin Marks, The Christian Science Monitor)

Tim Roemer:

• Repairing the Democratic tent | We Democrats are long overdue for an open discussion of the vitally important issue of abortion (Tim Roemer, The Washington Post)
• Hoosier ends his bid to lead Democrats | "It was a very difficult mountain to climb from the beginning and some people tried to hang a radioactive anvil around my neck on abortion," Roemer said (The Indianapolis Star)
• Democrats missing Roemer's message of inclusion | Despite his emphasis on inclusiveness, militant pro-choicers have made it clear that he's not welcome at the table (Ruth Holladay, The Indianapolis Star)

Abortion:

• Morality play | By acknowledging painful emotional truths about abortion, pro-choice activists have reenergized their movement. But is all the talk about fetuses overshadowing women's rights? (Rebecca Traister, Salon.com)
• Looking abortion in the face | My second-trimester baby had a genetic abnormality, and I decided to terminate my pregnancy. I know exactly what I did, I wept for the fetus I killed -- and I have no regrets (Ayelet Waldman, Salon.com)

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February (Web-only) 2005, Vol. 49