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Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST
Church wins partial victory in Colorado land-use dispute
A federal jury says Boulder County was wrong to deny Rocky Mountain Christian Church a permit to expand, but rejects the assertion that religious bias was at play. [more info]
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST
Bush effigy burned in anti-US protest in Baghdad
Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier. [more info]
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST
With Same-Sex Marriage, a Court Takes on the People’s Voice
When the California Supreme Court begins weighing arguments over same-sex marriage — again — in December, some 18,000 such marriages could hang in the balance. [more info]
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST
Conservatives call on Bush to free Muslim Uighurs
A group of conservatives is chastising the Bush administration for refusing to free 17 Turkic Muslims being held without charges at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying their continued detention defies legal principles and "undermines our standing in the world." [more info]
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST
Episcopal Church dissidents aim for new church
Conservatives who have abandoned the U.S. Episcopal Church by the thousands in recent years are trying to form a separate-but-equal church, a move that could leave two branches of Anglicanism on American soil. [more info]
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