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Meanwhile, "several former employees and close associates of Fuller -- including three ordained ministers -- have come forward to say they have inside knowledge of numerous prior allegations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment by him," the Post's Alan Cooperman reports, with much "she said/he said" details.

Whoever's right, it's a sad, sad story.

Religion & politics:

• Republicans seek to stir up a grass-roots drive for Bush's judicial nominees | Family Research Council, for example, will borrow from its campaigns opposing same-sex marriage last year, including using telecasts to churches in pivotal states around the country (Associated Press)
• Abbott won't speak at conference | Health Minister Tony Abbott would not address an anti-Islamic conference, his office said today (The Daily Telegraph, Australia)
• Kline correct in seeking abortion clinic records | It is ironic that businesses supposedly interested in "women's health" would so blatantly place women at risk by not cooperating with the authorities to bring sex abusers to justice (Cheryl Sullenger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.)

Human rights & religious freedom:

• A modern challenge for International Women's Day | Tuesday is International Women's Day, a century-old tradition born in the labor and women's suffrage movements and that today focuses on women's equality. While any number of issues cry out for attention, from women's illiteracy, to poverty, to joblessness, perhaps no issue is politically more immediate than the situation of women in Iraq. (Barbara Miner, Journal-Sentinel, Milwaukee)
• Accord with tomato pickers ends boycott of Taco Bell | A group of tomato pickers from Florida announced an end to a boycott of Taco Bell yesterday after the fast-food chain and its parent company agreed to meet demands to improve wages and working conditions for the farmworkers (The Washington Post)
• Court links right to asylum to China's sterilization policy | Quili Qu and his wife were denied a permit to have a child because Qu's family was thought to be affiliated with "counter revolutionary elements as a result of its elders' support of the pre-Communist regime and adherence to Christian beliefs" (The Washington Post)

Abortion amendment fails in Senate:

• Senate rejects bankruptcy bill's pro-life penalty | A major overhaul of the nation's bankruptcy laws cleared its last serious hurdle yesterday when Senate Republicans rebuffed an effort to single out pro-life protesters for additional punishment (The Washington Times)
• Abortion rights supporters lose a key vote in Senate | The Senate yesterday defeated an effort to stop those who commit abortion-clinic violence from ducking legal judgments through bankruptcy, a setback for abortion rights groups and a display of the increased might of the Republican majority after last year's elections (The Boston Globe)

U.N. backs human cloning ban:

• U.N. backs human cloning ban | The U.N. General Assembly adopted a declaration Tuesday that calls on governments to ban all forms of human cloning that are "incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life" (The Washington Post)
• UN vote urges human cloning ban | The UN has voted to approve a non-binding ban on all human cloning, ending two years of wrangling (BBC)

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