We have a guilty verdict in the case of two Oregon parents (left) who chose faith-healing over medicine as their teenage son died from a routine urinary tract infection. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 18.
As expected, the Pentagon’s top brass came out in support of ending the Don’t-Ask Don’t-Tell policy against gays in the military, but said they’d study the issue for a year (and relax enforcement) before punting the issue over to Congress for final action. The pope’s statement that he doesn’t like Britain’s anti-discrimination equality laws (but would still love to have tea with the queen) has set off a flurry of opposition ahead of his planned September (?) visit to the UK.
Remember that stone circle that the US Air Force Academy built for Wiccans and Druids? Someone place a large wooden cross on the site, and now everyone’s crying foul. Also crying foul, WaPo talks to critics who say the White House’s faith-based office is little more than window-dressing.
A group of three conservative pastors have filed a federal challenge to last year’s hate-crimes law, which added sexual orientation to the list of federal classes. Just days after Scott Roeder was found guilty in the shooting death of abortionist George Tiller, a woman who shot and wounded Tiller in 1993 says the violence will continue.
California will be asked to allow the state’s first Hebrew-language public charter school; Like a handful of others across the U.S., this school is raising concerns about access for non-Jews, and church-state separation.
A Pakistani woman awaiting trial in New York is either “Lady Al Qaeda or the incarnation of America’s persecution of Muslims,” according to the LAT. At least 20 Shiite pilgrims were killed Wednesday when a bomb went off near the holy city of Karbala. A group of U.S. missionaries in Haiti faced a judge on charges of trying to illegally ferry orphans out of the country. Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo’s headaches over multiple paternity claims stemming from when he was a Roman Catholic bishop are apparently clearing up.
And this, from the Dept. of Not Turning the Other Cheek: Evangelicals are embracing mixed martial arts to attract young men.
