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Christian band sues after being dropped from school assembly:

• Christian band sues Rossford schools | Rossford Superintendent Luci Gernot said she prohibited the Christian rock band Pawn from playing during a school anti-drug assembly Dec. 21 because of concerns about potentially being sued for promoting religion in a public school. Yesterday, the district was sued — by the band. (Toledo Blade)
• Christian band sues Ohio school district | Rossford High School officials in December canceled the band Pawn's performance at an anti-drug assembly. Board members said they feared a lawsuit if they allowed a religious performance in a public school (Associated Press)

Education:

• Don't let fear of vouchers halt Perdue plan | Much of the opposition to Gov. Sonny Perdue's proposed Faith and Family Services Amendment stems from belief that, if approved by the voters in 2006, it will remove a constitutional barrier to educational vouchers. Well, folks, I've got news for you. We already have vouchers in Georgia (Joseph M. Knippenberg, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• Profs free to speak -- not preach | Academic freedom protects professors from one another and from yahoos outside the university (like regents), and it should protect students from yahoo professors (Andrew Greeley, Chicago Sun-Times)
• Not so fast on evolution | Textbooks need advisory, says county school board's Bunker (Commercial Appeal, Nashville, Tenn.)

Davidson allows non-Christian trustees:

• Davidson reverses policy banning non-Christians as trustees | Davidson President Bobby Vagt compared the decision to admitting the first blacks and women in the 1960s and 1970s (Associated Press)
• Davidson broadens criteria for trustees | School's change permits non-Christians to serve (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)

Gays unhappy with AMA president's defense of gay student group ban:

• Gay groups criticize AMA president remarks | After being criticized by gay and lesbian groups, the president of the American Medical Association said Thursday his views were misrepresented in a newspaper article that quotes him defending a Roman Catholic-affiliated medical school's decision to ban a gay student group (Associated Press)
• Earlier: AMA chief defends ban on gay group | The president of the American Medical Association this week defended a decision by New York Medical College to ban a gay students group from campus, calling it a decision by a private institution to uphold its standards and likening it to Brigham Young University's decisions to ban Coca-Cola from campus and to suspend four athletes accused of raping a 17-year-old girl (The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y., Feb. 12)

Homosexuality & the Anglican Communion:

• Archbishop: Gay issue splits Anglicans | The Anglican rift over gay bishops will be costly no matter how it is resolved, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said Thursday (Associated Press)
• Anglican church deeply wounded in gay row –Williams | "There are no cost-free decisions … there will be no cost-free outcome from this," he told a debate on the issue at the General Synod -- the Church of England's parliament. (Reuters)
• Archbishop pledges to take tough action in Church gay row | The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday warned liberals who have brought the Anglican Church to the brink of collapse over homosexuality that they would face the consequences (The Telegraph, London)

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