Supreme Court debates abortion case
___By Shelvia Dancy
___Religion News Service
___WASHINGTON (RNS)--Lawyers representing both sides of the abortion debate squared off before the U.S. Supreme Court April 25, presenting oral arguments in a challenge to Nebraska's ban on late-term abortions.
___The hour-long session returned justices to a legal and moral battlefield they last visited in 1992 when justices voted 5-4 to uphold their 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision extending constitutional protection to abortions.
___At issue this time was a 1997 Nebraska law that banned so-called "partial-birth abortions," in which a doctor "partially delivers vaginally a living unborn child before killing the unborn child and completing delivery."
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Influence of Islam gaining in America
___By Elaine Ruth Fletcher
___Religion News Service
___JERUSALEM (RNS)--Islam will become a major new force on the American religious scene, presenting new challenges to Christian and Jewish institutions that have traditionally dominated society, according to a new study on the impact of religion in America.
___"This presents a foremost challenge to clergy, who are still talking in archaic biblical terminology and have not learned how to adapt to modern ways of communications," said Gunther Lawrence, executive director of the center.
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Ohio's motto ruled out because 'uniquely Christian'
___COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS)--Deciding that the state motto of Ohio expresses "a uniquely Christian thought" and is a government endorsement of Christianity, a federal appeals court declared the motto unconstitutional April 25 in a 2-1 vote.
___In prohibiting Ohio's use of the motto "With God, all things are possible," the appellate court decided U.S. District Judge James Graham should not have granted Ohio permission to use the motto with the stipulation that the phrase's biblical origins could not be cited.
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Boy Scouts case could impact other religious groups
___By Kevin Eckstrom
___Religion News Service
___WASHINGTON (RNS)--The U.S. Supreme Court revisited the sensitive issue of homosexuality April 26 in a case that pits the Boy Scouts of America against an ousted gay assistant scoutmaster. The outcome could have significant ramifications for religious groups.
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 JAMIE'S PLACE, a grief center sponsored by Hillcrest Community Hospice in Waco, helped Kevin Grusendorf deal with the death of his best friend.
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