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• Study finds couples open to embryo donation | Spanish researchers found that of 97 couples who underwent treatment at two fertility clinics, 49 percent chose to donate their spare frozen embryos for stem cell research (Reuters)
  
  
• Evangelicals start adoption push | Prominent evangelical Christians are urging churchgoers to strongly consider adoption or foster care, not just out of kindness or biblical calling but also to answer criticism that their movement, while condemning abortion and same-sex adoption, doesn't do enough for children without parents (Associated Press)
  
  

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Smacking :

• Police welcome smacking bill compromise | Today's amendment would make it clear police had the discretion not to prosecute complaints against a parent where the offence was considered "so inconsequential" there was no public interest in it going ahead (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• Churches take to streets over smacking bill | Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki hailed the last-minute changes to the anti-smacking bill as a "glorious victory" (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• Spanking kids is God's will, El Sobrante church teaches | Doctrine may conflict with rod-sparing bill in Assembly (Tri-Valley Herald, Ca.)
  
  
• Churches make their stands on smacking | Destiny Brian Tamaki says he can count the number of times he smacked his children "on one hand" (Dominion Post, New Zealand)
  
  
• The smacking bill: Amendment passes by landslide | Only three MPs vote no (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• The smacking bill: Everyone claims a victory | They all may be God's children, but the congregations gathered in Wellington yesterday because of Sue Bradford's child discipline bill have very different ways of behaving (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• Bishops back anti-smacking bill ahead of debate | Anglican bishops have declared their support for Sue Bradford's bill to change the law on smacking ahead of another debate in Parliament tomorrow (The New Zealand Herald)
  
  
• Church urges parents not to spare the rod | Parents who belong to the Bethel Baptist Church in El Sobrante are told in no uncertain terms: Spank your children or oppose God's will (Contra Costa Times, Ca.)
  
  

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Commencement ceremonies :

• Sen. McCaskill not welcome at Catholic school commencement | Sen. Claire McCaskill, who had been invited to speak at her daughter's Catholic high school commencement, was told last week that she was no longer invited because of church policy rejecting her positions on abortion and embryonic stem cell research (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• Senator asked not to speak at graduation | An invitation to Sen. Claire McCaskill to speak at her daughter's graduation from a Roman Catholic high school was withdrawn because of her positions on abortion and stem cell research (Associated Press)
  
  
• Mr. President: This place is not your place | St. Vincent College should not host a leader who has exhibited values antithetical to its mission (Maynard Brennan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  

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Education :

• Geneva College settles discrimination lawsuit | The federal government has said that because Geneva does not receive any Workforce Investment Act funding, it is not subject to the nondiscrimination clause (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Christian college can advertise on state job site, court settlement says (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• House: Allow religion in school | Legislature: Bill clarifies rights; critics fear campus evangelizing (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Also: School prayer gets a boost | House approves bill that would let students express faith on campus (Houston Chronicle)
  
  

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May (Web-only) 2007, Vol. 51