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The Virginia Court of Appeals heard oral arguments this past week on the issue of whether Virginia must enforce a custody order and visitation order arising from a dissolved Vermont same-sex civil union.

"Prayer and discernment" are needed as Episcopal leaders decide whether to confirm the election of a partnered lesbian as bishop suffragan, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said.

The Episcopal Church should respond with "prayer and discernment" to the recent election of a lesbian priest as a suffragan bishop of the Los Angeles diocese, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said Saturday. Although the Rev. Mary Glasspool of Baltimore was elected earlier this month, she must be approved by a majority of Episcopal dioceses before she can be consecrated, and that could take several months, said Bishop Jefferts Schori, the church's head.

From the shooting last month at Fort Hood to this week's arrests of five young American suspects in Pakistan, terrorism experts agree militant Islam is becoming an American problem, reports CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier. "We do have a homegrown terror problem that really needs to be addressed and explained," Zeyno Baran, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Dozier.