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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Ohio expands some domestic partner benefits

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Morning Journal (AP): "An Ohio panel has approved a new rule allowing nonunion state employees to take bereavement or sick time for issues related to a live-in partner."

Hillary Clinton: Remarks at an event celebrating LGBT Month

Posted on June 22, 2010
"[T]he purpose of this occasion is to recognize with gratitude the contributions made by LGBT members of the State Department family every single day. We celebrate the progress that is being made here in our own country toward advancing the rights of LGBT Americans, and we recognize that there is still a lot of work to be done but that we are moving together in the right direction...

SC: Street preachers to plead case for free speech in court

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Greenville News: "Two Greenville street preachers who have sued the city saying their civil rights to free speech were violated when police arrested and accused them of harassing passersby downtown are scheduled to have their case heard Tuesday. U...

TX: McLennan commissioners OK pledge, consider options for meeting prayer

Posted on June 22, 2010
KWTX: "McLennan County Commissioners voted Tuesday to begin their meetings by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and agreed to explore options for prayers at meetings. ... Last week, County Attorney Mike Dixon warned that prayer at meetings could spark a lawsuit...

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Rolling Hills Covenant Church to propose scaled-down expansion plan

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Daily Breeze: "Years after one of the South Bay's largest churches roiled its neighbors in a failed attempt to grow even bigger, Rolling Hills Covenant Church is putting forward a new expansion plan. ... After years of repeated late-night meetings, and amid passionate outcry from neighbors and threats of litigation from the church, the plan was scaled back...

FFRF objects to Michigan county praying in Jesus? name

Posted on June 22, 2010
Freedom from Religion Foundation: "The Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation on�June 21 urged the Otsego County Board of Commissioners (Gaylord, Mich.) to end its practice of sectarian prayers to Jesus at official meetings."

Indonesia church calls closure unconstitutional in court

Posted on June 22, 2010
Christian Post (Compass Direct): "In a hearing in its lawsuit against a local government, a representative for a church that Bekasi, West Java officials summarily closed earlier this year told an administrative court that the action was unconstitutional...

Praying with the office chaplain

Posted on June 22, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "A growing number of companies are offering the services of chaplains in the workplace. Managers say many employees who wouldn't think of calling a therapist or an employee-assistance program will willingly turn to a chaplain. Executives at Tyson Foods Inc...

Erik Stanley: Pulpit freedom in America?s infancy

Posted on June 22, 2010
ADF Attorney Erik Stanley writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "You can read Mr. Johnson's actual letter to James Madison online here. I have a couple of thoughts in response to this. First, I find it interesting to note that it was pastors who provided the impetus, at least in part, for the First Amendment, and specifically the protection of religious freedom...

Christian Child Abducted, Forced into Bonded Labor in Pakistan

Posted on June 22, 2010
Christian Post: "An 11-year-old Christian boy here is growing weak and ill from malnutrition from working in slave-like conditions for a Muslim landowner who kidnapped him and is forcing him to work off his family?s debts, his mother told Compass . . ...

?Gay rights group hits Mike Huckabee?

Posted on June 22, 2010
Politico: "Gay groups are lashing out at former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee for saying in a recent interview that he doesn?t support gay marriage, in part, because of the 'ick factor.'"

Polygamist group member convicted in West Texas

Posted on June 22, 2010
CBS: "A West Texas jury has convicted a member of a polygamist group of sexual assault of a child, a charge stemming from his alleged marriage to an underage girl."

Charter of Rights set to be introduced in Tasmanian Parliament

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Mercury: "Cabinet is understood to have signed off yesterday on legislation introducing a Charter of Rights to the Tasmanian Parliament, after three years of procrastination and delays. The Charter of Rights is designed to better protect the civil and political rights of Tasmanians, enshrining major issues such as the right to vote, free speech and religious freedom in state law...

CNN premieres ?Gary And Tony Have A Baby? on June 24

Posted on June 22, 2010
TV by the Numbers: "Building upon the success of Black in America and Latino in America, CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O?Brien will cover another underreported story, one of two gay men who want nothing more than what they each had growing up ? a traditional family ? and a child of their own...

India plans tough controls on fertility clinics

Posted on June 22, 2010
Financial Times: "Over the last few years, India has emerged as a big hub for infertile Western couples seeking young women willing to serve as surrogate mothers for their babies. ... Yet the largely unregulated business has generated many concerns, including worries about practices that could risk the surrogate mothers? health...

Tasmania: New bid to legalize voluntary euthanasia

Posted on June 22, 2010
ABC: "Tasmania's Deputy Premier has announced she will help Greens leader Nick McKim reintroduce a bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia."

?Religious Schools And Bias: America Must Not Vouch For Parochial Discrimination?

Posted on June 22, 2010
Americans United for Separation of Church and State: "As if there aren?t already enough reasons why public funds should never support religious education ? here are just a few more. Reason No. 793: NBC?s Today Show recently interviewed a Florida teacher who said she was fired by a Christian school after school officials learned she became pregnant before her marriage ...

Former SGs Endorse Kagan for Supreme Court

Posted on June 22, 2010
Legal Blog Watch: "All the former U.S. solicitors general since 1985 today joined in endorsing current SG Elena Kagan in advance of her Senate confirmation hearing, set to begin June 28. 'Elena Kagan would bring to the Supreme Court a breadth of experience and a history of great accomplishment in the law,' the group said in a joint letter released by the White House this morning ...

Texas GOP platform: criminalize gay marriage and ban sodomy, outlaw strip clubs and pornography

Posted on June 22, 2010
NY Daily News: "In addition, the platform says that homosexuality 'tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit and leads to the spread of dangerous communicable diseases.'"

Prosecutors Using Broad Definition of Hate Crimes

Posted on June 22, 2010
NY Times: "In the public?s imagination, the classic hate crime is an assault born of animus against a particular ethnicity or sexual orientation, like the case of the Long Island man convicted in April of killing an Ecuadorean immigrant after hunting for Hispanics to beat up...

ACLU: ?Unequal Access to Citizenship for Muslims?

Posted on June 22, 2010
ACLU: "For many immigrants in this country, the chance to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and become sworn in as a U.S. citizen is a moment they dream about and work years to achieve. But for Tarek Hamdi and many other Muslim immigrants around the country, the dream is tarnished by racial and religious discrimination in the naturalization process ...

Why Should Law Schools Give Away Better Grades When They Can Sell Them Instead?

Posted on June 22, 2010
Legal Blog Watch: "The New York Times reports that next month, every student at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles will 'awake to a higher grade point average,' but not because of anything the students did. Rather, the school has simply decided that by retroactively inflating its grades by 0...

Irish Politicians to Catholic Church: You Have No Business in Public Debate

Posted on June 22, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Ahern, a sponsor of the bill who continues to profess to be a Catholic, said, 'I do leave my religion behind me and I genuinely mean that. While we all have our beliefs and our own religions, I don?t think it should cloud our judgment.'"

A.L.L. Joins International Call for Ban on In Vitro Technologies

Posted on June 22, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "The American Life League joined the U.K.'s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) on Monday calling for a ban on all in vitro fertilization (IVF) practices. IVF routinely involves the massive loss of human life as 'excess' embryonic children are discarded, frozen indefinitely, or fall victim to 'selective termination' following implantation...

Mexico asks court to reject Ariz. immigration law

Posted on June 22, 2010
Boston Globe: "Mexico on Tuesday asked a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional, arguing that the country's own interests and its citizens' rights are at stake."

Andrea Bocelli Confirms: He?s Not Merely Anti-Abortion, he?s ?For Life?

Posted on June 22, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Andrea Bocelli wants to make it clear that he is not merely ?anti-abortion? but genuinely pro-life, in the fullest sense. In an interview this weekend with the Italian newspaper Il Foglio, the world-renowned singer said his position is founded on his deeply held Catholic faith ...

Morals & the servile mind: On the diminishing moral life of our democratic age.

Posted on June 21, 2010
Kenneth Minogue writes at the New Criterion: "The fate of the Romans under Tiberius, who followed Augustus, was alarming beyond anything even imaginable in our time, but we should not forget the broader lesson: that over long stretches of time, the moral changes that take place only become evident in the light of some unexpected crisis...

UK: ?Inside the Muslim Eton: 20 hour days starting at 3.45am with the aim of producing Muslim elite of leaders?

Posted on June 21, 2010
'As Muslims, we?re not interested in an education that is simply about getting a job. We?re not on Earth for this reason. We live on this Earth merely with a view to the next life.?

Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project

Posted on June 21, 2010
SCOTUSblog analyzes the Supreme Court's ruling in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08?1498 (U.S. June 21, 2010): "For the first time in nearly nine years of what the government has called a 'war on terrorism,' the Supreme Court on Monday ruled decisively in the government?s favor ? but still stopped short of providing an unqualified victory...

FRC Event: ?The Roots of Demographic Winter and the Global Economic Crisis?

Posted on June 21, 2010
Demographic Winter didn't happen in a vacuum. Bad ideas and misguided policies have led to rapidly declining birthrates worldwide. WHO:�Don Feder World Congress of Families WHEN:�Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:00 a.m. (EST) WHERE:�Family Research Council Media Center 801 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 LEARN MORE: http://www...

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