Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Tennessee opens a new probe of the "ex-gay" camp;

Bush to fundamentalists, hardliners: tone down the language against Gonzales;

United Church of Christ - the same established Protestant church whose inclusiveness ads were refused by a couple of the major networks - decides to sanctify same-gender marriages;

Focus on the Family article: nominate a Thomas/Scalia justice to the Court;

Focus on the Family, Traditional Values Coalition wants video at Lincoln memorial changed to remove video of abortion-rights and GBLT-rights protests at the memorial, and anti-abortion footage put in, to provide "balance" (this has been ongoing for a while; it's apparently back on the radar; the footage had previously been edited to remove protests that took place there and put in socially-conservative protests that took place in other places);

FotF blasts American Academy of Pediatricians for stating that abstinence-only education doesn't work very well;

FotF Special Report: Bush must nominate Thomas/Scalia-type justice;

Today's Family News in Focus;

Supreme Court case upcoming regarding use of RICO and anti-abortion blockade protests;

CWA cranky about gay rights protest historical marker in Pennsylvania;

CWA cranky about Canadian marriage;

New Zealand MP refuses to condemn stoning gay men to death "in certain circumstances" - big question over the conflict between the Koran and lawmaking;

Florida governor Jeb Bush pushes evangelistic Christian programme in schools;

Legal Times article on the "political calculus" of replacing O'Connor on the Supreme Court;

Family Research Council rejects calls for a "consensus candidate" for O'Connor's replacement;

FRC condemns United Church of Christ for recognising same-sex marriages;

FRC action item: demand Thomas/Scalia-like justice to replace O'Connor, condemns her for voting for Lawrence v. Texas as "striking at the heart of our Judeo-Christian heritage."

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