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Arutz Sheva News Service
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Monday, March 13, 2000 / Adar Bet 6, 5760
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1. THE FUTURE OF JERUSALEM

The future of Jerusalem as Israel's capital continues to
be the center of political attention. Following a cabinet
meeting this morning, Prime Minister Ehud Barak told
reporters that his government's position on Jerusalem
remains unchanged, and that the city "will forever remain
united under Israeli sovereignty." Barak added that right-
wing statements accusing the government of dividing
Jerusalem are both "irresponsible and damaging to Israel's
national interests." In response to a specific question
about the Arab neighborhoods of Abu Dis, A-Ram, and Al-
Azariya, however, Barak was less committal. "I do not plan
to conduct the negotiations in front of the television
cameras," he said.

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Subject: [BPR] - FW: [Bioweekly Email] 03/13/2000
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:32:31 -0500

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Subject: [BPR] - FW: Christian Daily News, March 13
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:36:08 -0500

[Christian Daily News]

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Published by Christian Word Ministries March 13, 2000
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The poor can run to You because You are a fortress in
times of trouble.Everyone who honors Your name can trust You, because
You are faithful to all who depend on You.
Psalms 9:9-10 (CEV)
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World News

ERLC asks justices for reversals in abortion,
homosexuality cases

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court should reverse lower-
court decisions that struck down a ban on partial-birth
abortion and rejected the Boy Scouts of America's
prohibition against homosexual leaders, according to friend-
of-the-court briefs signed onto by the Southern Baptist
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. The briefs were
filed in cases that will be argued before the high court on
successive days in late April.

In Stenberg v. Carhart, a brief, written by the U.S.
Catholic Conference and joined in by the ERLC, contends the
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in striking down
Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion, a gruesome
procedure performed on a nearly totally delivered baby. The
oral arguments in the case will be April 25.

In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, a brief, authored by the
American Center for Law and Justice and signed onto by the
ERLC, argues the New Jersey Supreme Court violated the
First Amendment rights of the Boy Scouts by ruling the
organization could not restrict a homosexual from being a
troop leader. The case will be argued April 26.

"We are delighted to have the opportunity to express
before the highest court in the land the grave concerns of
the vast majority of Southern Baptists about both of these
critically important issues to the future of our nation,"
said ERLC President Richard Land.

"In the case of partial-birth abortion, if our court
system will not allow American citizens to restrict this
particularly heinous form of infanticide, then we must
either demand a change in those judges administering our
judicial system or face the judgment of a righteous God on
our society."

A crucial issue at stake in the Boy Scouts case "is
whether or not private organizations will continue to be
able to set the moral standards for those they would
entrust with leadership positions," Land said. "Most
Southern Baptists understand that what we allow a
government entity, in this case the New Jersey Supreme
Court, to do to the Boy Scouts today, they may very well
try with religious organizations and even churches tomorrow.

"I know that the overwhelming majority of Southern
Baptists join me in praying that God will convict our
Supreme Court justices and guide them to the right
decisions in these two cases -- the decisions that are
argued for in these two superb briefs."

In the Boy Scouts case, James Dale challenged the
organization's rule preventing him, as a homosexual, from
becoming an assistant scoutmaster. The New Jersey high
court ruled the prohibition violated the state's anti-
discrimination law and ordered the Boy Scouts to accept Dale.

The brief contends the First Amendment protects the BSA's
rights both to express its ideas and to "associate with
others to advance shared values."

"The right to associate belongs to all expressive
organizations, including the Boy Scouts, whose indisputable
purpose is to produce character in young boys through the
inculcation of traditional morals," the brief says. "Long
before gay rights became a politically controversial issue,
the Boy Scouts determined that a Scout leader should adhere
to traditional sexual [morals], i.e., that sexual
expression is properly reserved to the marital relationship
between a man and a woman."

The New Jersey court erred in failing to apply
appropriately a 1995 opinion by the U.S. Supreme Court, the
brief argues. In that decision, Hurley v. Irish American
Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, the high court
ruled Massachusetts could not use its anti-discrimination
law to force the organizers of a St. Patrick's Day parade
to permit a homosexual/bisexual group to march, even though
the organizers had not articulated a clear message opposing
homosexuality.

"Because Scouting's message is much more articulate than
the parade's message in Hurley ... it is much more likely
to be understood and therefore much more entitled to
protection," the brief says. It also argues eliminating
discrimination against homosexuals is not a "compelling
state interest" that surpasses the First Amendment rights
of the Boy Scouts.

In the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick opinion, the high court
upheld a state's right to criminalize sodomy. "If, as
Bowers establishes, states are free to criminalize
homosexual conduct, then protecting homosexuals from
discrimination cannot be a compelling state interest," the
brief said. "[N]o federal court has ever held that
homosexuals share the same protected status as women or
ethnic and racial minorities.

"While New Jersey may choose to protect homosexuals from
discrimination, nothing in federal constitutional law
licenses the state to exalt that interest above every other
value, including core First Amendment freedoms."

Also joining the ERLC on the brief by the ACLJ was Focus
on the Family. The ERLC previously had signed onto an ACLJ
brief asking the Supreme Court to review the New Jersey
decision.

In the partial-birth abortion case, the Eighth Circuit
struck down bans in not only Nebraska but Arkansas and Iowa
as well in September. A month later, the Seventh Circuit
upheld similar bans in Illinois and Wisconsin.

The procedure prohibited by the bans reached public
awareness in the early 1990s and is typically performed in
the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy. As practiced by some
abortion doctors, it involves the delivery of an intact
baby feet first until only the head is left in the birth
canal. The doctor pierces the base of the baby's skull with
surgical scissors, then inserts a catheter into the opening
and suctions out the brain. The collapse of the skull
enables easier removal of the dead child.

The Catholic Conference brief endorsed by the ERLC argues
the Nebraska ban does not conflict with Roe v. Wade, the
1973 ruling legalizing abortion, or any other Supreme Court
decision affirming a right to abortion. "Those decisions
have involved the taking of a child's life in utero," the
brief says. "Abortion that this court has held to be
constitutionally protected has never been understood by the
court or the public to include taking the life of a partly
born child. The [partial-birth] procedure is more like
infanticide than abortion. "No member of this court -- in
Roe, [Planned Parenthood v. Casey] or any other case -- has
ever expressed an intent to apply Roe to partly born
children."

The Constitution "does not require states to treat partly
born children as non-persons," the brief contends. "At that
stage when the child is neither fully in the womb nor fully
delivered, there is nothing in the Constitution or in this
court's decisions that would rob states of the discretion
to vindicate their strong interest in protecting vulnerable
human life."

The ban also furthers a state's interests in protecting
human life and regulating and preserving the integrity of
the medical profession, according to the brief. The state
"may reasonably conclude that killing a partly born child
is a significant step toward, if it does not constitute, a
form of infanticide and constitutionally may act to prevent
such conduct as a bulwark against outright infanticide,"
the brief said.

"Surely this court would not conclude, for example, that a
child fully born save for a foot or hand is beyond the
legitimate power of the legislature to protect."

Others signing onto the U.S. Catholic Conference brief
beside the ERLC were the National Association of
Evangelicals, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and the Nebraska Catholic Conference.

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Subject: [BPR] - Selected Items from Morrock News (Mar 13, 2000)
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:56:11 -0500

From The Morrock News Digest
http://morrock.com
March 13, 2000

* BARAK SURVIVES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE: Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak today survived, though barely, a
no-confidence vote based on opposition to his handling
of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations. The vote was 47-42
in his favor, with three abstentions. The motion came
after Barak's education ministry approved three works
of Arab Israeli poet Mahmoud Darwish for study in
schools.

* TECHNOLOGY COULD STILL KILL US ALL: Bill Joy is no
technophobe -- he's the highly respected co-founder
of Sun Microsystems. But Joy has now filed an article
with Wired magazine warning that accelerating
technological change could cause "something like
extinction" of the human species within the next two
generations. He warns that robots may surpass human
intelligence and gain the ability to reproduce
themselves, and that nanotechnology -- the creation
of tiny, smart, machines on a molecular level -- could
marry genetic technology and result in
self-replicating, mutating, mechanical or biological
plagues. "That creates the possibility of empowering
individuals for extreme evil," Joy said. "If we don't
do anything, the risk is very high of one crazy person
doing something very bad."

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Subject: [BPR] - New Article: Removing the Politics from Sainthood
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("DH")
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:32:07 -0600

A new article on vision.org. I thought you might be interested.

www.vision.org

Removing the Politics from Sainthood

Pope John Paul II has created a record number of saints during the 22 years
he has reigned as head of the Catholic Church. Recent controversy over his
selection process raises some unique questions.

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Subject: [BPR] - U.S., Britain agree to share human genetic data
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:48:43 -0500

U.S., Britain agree to share human genetic data

http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,500180414-5002378
61-5 01177530-0,00.html

WASHINGTON (March 14, 2000 11:00 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com)
- The United States and Britain agreed Tuesday to openly share data from a
groundbreaking project to decode the human genetic pattern - a study
that could pave the way for new medical cures and preventions. The two
countries said they would share raw fundamental data on the human
genome, including the human DNA sequence and its variations, with scientists
everywhere. A joint statement urged private companies to follow the
lead of government laboratories. Some companies have shared data, while
others have not. President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair
said the study of the human genetic blueprint was "one of the most significant
scientific scientific projects of all time." "To realize the full promise of this
research, raw fundamental data on the human genome, including
the human DNA sequence and its variations, should be made freely
available to scientists everywhere," Clinton and Blair said...

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Subject: [BPR] - Pope to visit both sites claiming Jesus' baptism
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:51:51 -0500

Pope to visit both sites claiming Jesus' baptism

http://www.nandotimes.com/global/story/0,1024,500180359-
500237777-501176627-0,00.html

By MARK LAVIE

JERUSALEM (March 14, 2000 7:43 a.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - On Pope John Paul II's Middle
East trip later this month, he will visit two sites with
rival claims to being the site of Jesus Christ's baptism,
Israeli and Vatican officials said Tuesday. Israel has
agreed to allow the pope to make a "very brief" stop at
Qasr al-Yahud, which is located in a closed Israeli
military zone near the West Bank town of Jericho. The town
is one of two locations reputed to be the baptismal site of
Jesus. The other, Wadi al Kharrar on the eastern bank of
the Jordan River, was already on the pontiff's crowded Holy
Land schedule. The pope was expected to visit Wadi al
Kharrar in Jordan at the start of his March 20-26 trip. In
addition to Jordan, he will visit Israel and the
Palestinian areas. He was invited to visit Qasr al-Yahud by
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. An Israeli official said
Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to the stopover as a
goodwill gesture to the Palestinians. Visits to Qasr al-
Yahud are allowed only by permission from the Israeli army.

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