House Democrats are introducing legislation to repeal DOMA, which bars federal recognition of gay couples. China says its mad at the U.S. for meeting with the Dalai Lama in India, the Vatican denies that it’s rolling back Vatican II-era liturgical reforms and the number of female pastors in U.S. Protestant churches has doubled in the last decade. More than 40 liberal Catholic theologians and community leaders criticized U.S. Catholic bishops for echoing “partisan talking points” and liberal faith groups are telling followers to flood Congress with calls on health care reform. Utah’s Supreme Court will hear an appeal from polygamist Warren Jeffs in November, three teens are suing the Newark Bears baseball team, claiming they were tossed from the stadium for refusing to stand and sing ” God Bless America” and a federal appeals court is considering religious music at school holiday concerts. Officials say there is a shortage of goats to sacrifice in Nepal. Two California colleges have acquired parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls and a Gutenberg Bible, respectively, and Methodist denominations in the U.S. are moving toward greater unity. Violent clashes between Muslims and anti-Islam demonstrators in England are worrying British leaders, Indonesia’s Aceh province voted to punish adulterers by stoning them to death, and a Malaysian judge has sentenced a man to be caned and jailed for drinking alcohol. Several dozen Buddhists are withdrawing to the Arizona desert for a three-year-long silent retreat.