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Courts:

• Court upholds Calif. school's sex survey | The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the parents' claim that they have the exclusive right to tell their children about sex (Associated Press)
• Press release: Appeals court 'declares parenthood unconstitutional' (Focus on the Family Action)
• Justices take issue with ban of religious tea | U.S. attorney faces resistance when he takes categorical stance against importation of hoasca (First Amendment Center)
• The Supreme Court hears its first religion case with Chief Justice Roberts at the helm | Why it's important that this case is about RFRA and not the Free Exercise Clause (Marci Hamilton, FindLaw.com)

Alito:

• Judges: Alito unlikely to overturn Roe | Judges who have served with Samuel Alito say he's unquestionably a conservative who would push the Supreme Court to the right, likely favoring new abortion restrictions that retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor would not (Associated Press)
• Judge said he struggled on '91 abortion opinion | Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a pivotal Democrat that he had wrestled intensely with a 1991 opinion favoring an abortion restriction (The New York Times)
• Right to wife | Why does Judge Alito treat women like girls? (William Saletan, Slate)
• Judges attest to Alito's conservativism | Judges who have served with Samuel Alito say he's unquestionably a conservative who would push the Supreme Court to the right, likely favoring new abortion restrictions that retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor would not (Associated Press)
• Brain trust | Why Catholics are the Court's new brain (Franklin Foer, The New Republic)

Politics:

• Why Jesus is welcome in the public square | Religiosity isn't just the right's territory (Jennifer Moses, The Washington Post)
• O'Flaherty plans to move church finance bill to House | Decision draws praise, suspicion (The Boston Globe)
• Conservatives may skip N.J. governor race | Doug Forrester's increasingly vocal support of abortion rights in his campaign against liberal Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine has so alienated Republican conservatives that they are threatening to withhold their votes on Election Day (Associated Press)
• For Kaine, a faith in service | Mission trip as student put Democrat on new course (The Washington Post)
• Abortion, death penalty set rivals apart | Two former prosecutors who have each served in the General Assembly for 14 years are battling to become Virginia's attorney general (The Washington Post)

California parental notice initiative:

• Voters support parental notice | Respondents narrowly favor the abortion initiative. They are leaning against two prescription-drug discount measures (Los Angeles Times)
• Some Calif. ballot measures losing steam | California voters are increasingly leaning toward rejecting two dueling prescription drug initiatives, as well as an abortion measure requiring parental notification, according to a new statewide poll (Associated Press)
• Abortion least-known measure in California ballot | California, seen as one of the most sexually liberated U.S. states, could limit teenagers' access to abortion next week in the least known but most divisive ballot measure in a lackluster special election (Reuters)

Marriage:

• MSPs reject quickie divorce plans | Members of a Scottish Parliament committee narrowly voted against plans to reduce the separation period for divorce with consent from two years to one (BBC)
• Spare us the doormat wives, please | What does a Christian marriage look like? The Louisville-based Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood says it has the answer. Put simply, the wife dances to the husband's tune (The Kentucky Post)

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