1. Historic week for Boy Scouts: decision will send far-reaching cultural signal
Will Boy Scouts accept gay youth? Vote is imminent, Associated Press (David Crary)
2. Push to legalize gay marriage tests the limit of government

Hollande Signs French Gay Marriage Law, New York Times (Steven Erlanger)

Cameron facing Commons defeat over gay marriage plans, The Telegraph (Tim Ross)

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Story 1 – The death of Christian Britain?

Christianity in Britain Losing Ground to Islam, Secularism, Washington Post (Trevor Grundy)

Christianity not ‘Fading Away’ says Archbishop Ahead of Census Figures, The Telegraph (John Bingham)

Story 2 – Right to work laws reflect a changing culture

Over Protesters’ Angry Chants, Michigan Lawmakers Give Final Approval to Right-to-Work Bills, Washington Post…

Death comes to a pornographer… Sharia law and democracy… Rethinking Halloween… Men wearing makeup… Britain’s defense cuts… And student’s who prefer paper

What Americans believe about God… Hate speech faces a Supreme test… Abortion re-emerges on the campaign trail… Britain faces the facts… Jews debate same-sex marriage

The Nobel Prize goes to In Vitro Fertilization… A Hate Speech in the Netherlands… Britain Cuts the Welfare State… How we remember our Misdeeds… Digital Readers Bend the Curve… And why Hand Writing is Still Important

Britain has a new party leader… America sees trouble in old media… Breakdown of order in Afghanistan… A breakdown of sanity in Congress… And a breakdown of accountability in the church

France bans the Burqa… Ontario discovers Sharia Law… Woody Allen dismisses Faith… The Pope goes to Britain… And John F. Kennedy gives a Speech

Australia Bans Ad…   Britain Bans Sperm Ban…  The Taliban Hide Behind Children…   Women outnumber Men on Campus…   And Two Churches Lurch Leftwards…