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Quote of the day
"We're pleased that today's decision helps ensure that a student's constitutional right to freely express her religious views is protected."

—ACLU attorney Jennifer Klear, on news of U.S. District Court Judge Freda L. Wolfson's ruling that Frenchtown (N.J.) Elementary School was wrong to ban a second-grader from singing "Awesome God" at a voluntary, after-school talent show. The ACLU of New Jersey had filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the student.

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Graham family:

• A family at cross-purposes | Billy Graham's sons argue over a final resting place (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Feud escalates with siblings' statements | Anne Graham Lotz vows to honor mother's wishes; oldest son criticizes publicity (The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• Grahams at odds over burial | Billy and Ruth Bell Graham have spent decades carefully cultivating a media image that rarely allows any inkling of family discord (Asheville Citizen-Times, N.C.)
  
  
• Statements from Anne Graham Lotz and Franklin Graham (via The Charlotte Observer, N.C.)
  
  
• Graham family at odds over burial site | A family feud has broken out over where ailing evangelist Billy Graham and his equally frail wife, Ruth, will be buried (Associated Press)
  
  
• Related: Billy Graham statue unveiling emotional for Southern Baptists | The statue of Graham was unveiled Wednesday morning at Commerce Street and Eighth Avenue, on property owned by LifeWay Christian Resources (The Tennessean, Nashville)
  
  

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Money and business:

• Faith's purchasing power | Christian consumption has gone far beyond the book as millions use their buying power to reinforce their faith and show commitment to the Christian community (USA Today)
  
  
• IRS outlines new rules on deductions | Gave to church? Prove it. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Minimum wage: Churches divided on how to help poor | If it wasn't for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it (Reuters)
  
  
• Union-backed group enlists preachers | A new television ad by the union-backed group WakeUpWalMart.com features a pastor asking, "Would Jesus shop at Wal-Mart? Should you?" (Associated Press)
  
  
• Who gives, who doesn't | Conservatives can refrain from reading mean-spiritedness into liberalism on the basis of Mr. Brooks' findings if liberals will simply stop trying to impute cold-heartedness to conservative ideas they don't like. (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  

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