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April 19, 2013 - The Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News: Boy Scouts please few with proposal to partly rescind ban on gays
No one seemed satisfied Friday when the Boy Scouts of America proposed a historic policy change to allow openly gay youths as Scouts while simultaneously maintaining a ban on gay adult volunteers and paid staff.
April 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Cheers and Maori song as lawmakers make New Zealand 13th country to legalize gay marriage
The halls of Parliament echoed with a traditional Maori love song after lawmakers made New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage.
April 18, 2013 - The Guardian
Guardian: Buddhist monk uses racism and rumours to spread hatred in Burma
His name is Wirathu, he calls himself the "Burmese Bin Laden" and he is a Buddhist monk who is stoking religious hatred across Burma.
April 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: At desert monastery, Egypt's monks join new Christian assertiveness in face of Islamist power
In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the world some 17 centuries ago. At the foot of the mountain, the monks at the St. Anthony’s Monastery bearing his name continue the ascetic tradition.
April 18, 2013 - The Seattle Times
Seattle Times: State’s case against florist fires up gay-marriage critics
The state attorney general’s surprising lawsuit against a small florist in Eastern Washington has energized gay-marriage opponents who all but disappeared after failing to defeat same-sex marriage in Washington last fall.
April 17, 2013 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: 9th Circuit hears arguments on therapy aimed at converting gays
A federal appeals court Wednesday grappled with whether a California ban on therapy to change a minor’s sexual orientation amounted to a restriction on free speech or mere regulation of a medical treatment.
April 16, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Ireland takes step toward gay marriage rights
Ireland, a famously conservative country with a government dominated by the center-right, has taken a step toward legalizing same-sex marriage, following several other Catholic nations into what some say is belated equality – and others claim is murky legal and moral territory.
April 15, 2013 - The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: East St. Louis pastors and mayor in First Amendment standoff
After the Rev. Anthony Vincent, the city’s director of emergency services, delivered an opening prayer, the City Council took up some standard issues — maintenance of a traffic light, filling in a pot hole.
April 15, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Online furor draws press to abortion doctor's trial
Through four weeks, prosecutors have laid out evidence against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion provider on trial on charges of killing seven viable fetuses by “snipping” their necks with scissors and of causing the death of a pregnant 41-year-old woman during a procedure.
April 13, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: For Evangelicals, a shift in views on immigration
In the pews of the First Baptist Church of Orlando, where thousands of evangelical Christians gather on Sundays to worship and sing, a change of heart is happening on the once toxic issue of immigration.
April 13, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: California lawmakers aim to ease abortion rules as some states tighten
A proposal to allow nurses and midwives to perform some abortions is advancing in California's Democratic legislature, a move supporters hope will influence the national debate on abortion even as other states are tightening the rules.
April 13, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope names cardinals to advise him on running the church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy
Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope with a major initiative to reflect the universal nature of the church in key governing decisions.
April 11, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Uruguay becomes 3rd country in Americas to legalize gay marriage after Canada and Argentina
Uruguayan lawmakers voted to legalize gay marriage, making the South American country the third in the Americas to do so.
April 11, 2013 - The National Post
National Post: Attendance at religious services lowers risk of depression, study finds
A major new study that tracked more than 12,000 Canadians over a period of 14 years has found that regular attendance of religious service offers significant protection against depression.
April 11, 2013 - National Public Radio
NPR: Shop owner sued by state after denying flowers to gay couple
To Washington state now, where the state's attorney general is suing a florist for refusing to supply flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding. As NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Seattle, opponents of same-sex marriage are jumping to the florist's defense.
April 11, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Del. lawmakers propose bill that would legalize gay marriage, make it the 10th state to do so
Delaware lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state, with plans to have it signed into law by the end of June.
April 11, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: High office, low church
It is hard to imagine a prime minister doing such a thing now, and even then it seemed rather surprising. In May 1988 Margaret Thatcher went to the General Assembly of the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland and gave what would soon be called the Sermon on the Mound.
April 11, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Women challenge Orthodox practice at Israel’s Western Wall
A long-running battle over worship at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest shrine , was rejoined Thursday as Israeli police arrested five Jewish women who wore prayer shawls at a morning service, contrary to Orthodox practice enforced at the site.
April 11, 2013 - Bloomberg News
Bloomberg: Boomers push doctor-assisted dying in end-of-life revolt
Claudia Burzichelli doesn’t want to die like her dad. Nine years ago, her father, already afflicted with Parkinson’s, killed himself with a gunshot to the head days after his release from a hospital where he had been treated for a heart attack.
April 10, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: We're not in Kansas any more
IF a judge sentences you to be stoned for adultery, you are probably not in Middle America.
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