Are Links Illegal?

Equus writes "The NY Times (free registration required to read the article) has an article about a court ruling that says linking to a website can be illegal. Ouch. Two critics of the Mormon church had links to sites with text from a church publication. The church sued saying it was a copyright violation. The court agreed." Obviously its a scary ruling seeings how it would, well, destroy the web and all. I can't understand how linking can be a copyright violation... I mean, it seems like all those term papers I wrote in college with bibliographies would have got me in trouble by now if referencing copyrighted material was illegal.