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PHILADELPHIA - You could call it a stick-up of a different kind. Vandals put glue in the locks of several churches in Philadelphia's Tacony and Mayfair sections, making it difficult for parishoners to get inside for Sunday services. At least eight churches of various denominations were targeted on and near Tyson Avenue. In some cases, the vandals broke off keys inside locks. Worshippers at one church used a drill to get their doors open. At another church, a member brought a blow torch from home. Pastor Arthur Johnson says his Tacony Baptist Church was among those affected. He calls it...

SAN DIEGO -- Ronald Reagan had just left office, the Christian Coalition was new, "values" had yet to become a buzzword of American politics and six of the current U.S. Supreme Court justices had other jobs when an atheist sued the city of San Diego for permitting a giant cross in a public park. Seventeen years later, the 29-foot concrete monument still crowns a hill over the Pacific, defended by the city's voters and members of Congress. Now the Supreme Court has stepped in, and the case of the Mount Soledad cross could help determine under what circumstances religious symbols...

In today's Atlanta Journal Constitution, the newspaper (is it one? I guess it reports on the Atlanta Braves...) goes to great lengths to defend Sin Ketchup ( or is that Senator John Kerry) as a Baby killer, and attack Christians. A professor is quoted as being a better "church authority" than part of the Magisterium of the Church, according to this article. And then the Kerry campaign claims that since John Kerry is a Catholic, this is a private matter. Except that the single largest religious group is Roman Catholics in the United States. Only by looking at this through...