Christianity Today

The U.S. Supreme Court takes up two cases this week on the fiercely debated moral question of same-sex marriage, and religious voices on both sides of the issue are weighing in on what could become pivotal decisions in the court’s — and the nation’s — history. (ReligionLink)

The Bible says “You cannot serve both God and mammon.” The Constitution doesn’t. (Public Discourse)

ProtectMarriage.com, the advocacy group defending a California gay marriage ban now under review by the high court, showed a $2 million deficit in its legal fund at the end of 2011 - the third year in a row that expenses exceeded donations. (Reuters)

While the legal challenges pose no threat to the law as a whole, they have all the ingredients of a legal donnybrook that might well end up before the high court. (NationalJournal.com)

A note attached to a cross found in Northern California says it is the stolen cross, but the husband and wife who erected it in 1998 aren't so sure. (LAT)

Anti-abortion protesters who won an injunction against a policy in South Carolina against graphic signs may deserve attorneys' fees, the Supreme Court ruled Monday (Courthouse News Service)

Why the Republican Party platform is silent on Roe v. Wade (The Washington Post)

Of particular concern, the ruling opens the way to the adoption of measures such as limiting charity tax exemptions to groups that provide direct benefits to the poor and allowing tax deductions only for donors to those groups, proposals that have gained growing support in recent years among some members of Congress and other lawmakers. (ECFA)

In a narrow decision that did not address the major constitutional questions, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday tossed out the FCC's penalties against ABC and Fox for broadcasts that included expletives and brief nudity, saying the two networks were not given fair notice that "brief" moments of indecency could be fined under federal policy. Significantly, though, the high court left open the door for the FCC to tweak its policy to appease the justices' concerns. (BP)

But other parts of Plano, Texas, "candy cane case" will keep going in lower courts (Education Week)