Religion & Law

Phoenix, church settle case over breakfast service

Posted on June 17, 2010
East Valley Tribune: "A Phoenix church has reached a deal with the city that ends a pending federal court battle over the church's pancake breakfast service . . . "

Austin Nimocks on KRON-4: Perry v. Schwarzenegger

Posted on June 17, 2010
ADF Attorney Austin R. Nimocks appeared [MP4 1:56] on KRON-4 prior to closing arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. The station also excerpted, in a later broadcast [MP4 2:15], Austin's comments at the news conference following closing arguments.

Hillary Clinton Says White House Will Sue Over Arizona Immigration Law

Posted on June 17, 2010
CBS: "'President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy,' she said in an interview with an Ecuadorean television station flagged by The Right Scoop. 'And the Justice Department, under his direction, will be bringing a lawsuit against the act...

AHF: AMA Backs AIDS Advocates on Condoms in Porn

Posted on June 17, 2010
Business Wire: "At its annual meeting this week, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to support a public health effort by AIDS advocates including the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) that would require actors to use condoms during the production of adult films...

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Military shifts on reproductive health

Posted on June 17, 2010
Politico: "In February, the military began requiring all of its hospitals to stock emergency contraceptives. And now, a Senate amendment to the defense authorization bill would authorize military hospitals to perform elective abortions."

Melinda Gates Can?t Run From the Abortion Controversy

Posted on June 17, 2010
Politics Daily: "You might think that donating $1.5 billion to global maternal and infant health would beget global cheering. Perhaps a small island named after you. Children given your name. Songs sung in your honor. 'The foundation specifically doesn't take a stance on abortion for exactly this reason, is we don't want to be part of the controversy ...

Obama Picks Two for Federal Court in Washington

Posted on June 17, 2010
Blog of the Legal Times: "The two nominees, D.C. Superior Court Judge James Boasberg and Trout Cacheris partner Amy Berman Jackson, have been mentioned as possibilities for more than a year. They are the second and third Obama nominees to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which has jurisdiction over such high-profile areas as Guantanamo Bay detainees and disputes involving Congress...

Pope rethinks, clarifies and reinforces celibacy, asserts Vatican analyst

Posted on June 17, 2010
CNA: "In a world where the 'now' of the present and tangible seems good enough, 'celibacy is a great scandal, because it shows precisely that God is considered and lived as a reality,' Pope Benedict told the gathered priests. 'With the eschatological life of celibacy, the future world of God enters into the realities of our time,' even though the material world would have any hint of the transcendent vanish...

?Southern Baptists Denounce Oil Spill, Pro-Gay Bills, Divorce in Churches?

Posted on June 17, 2010
Christian Post: "On the closing day of their annual meeting, Southern Baptists approved resolutions denouncing those responsible for the massive gulf oil spill, opposing pro-gay legislations, and lamenting the 'scandal of Southern Baptist divorce.' . ...

S.C. lawmakers agree to extend waiting period for abortions

Posted on June 17, 2010
Greenville Online: "Lawmakers have approved a bill in a last-minute compromise to extend the waiting period for abortions from one hour to 24 hours."

Bill Stops $1 Bill Abortion Groups Get in Tax Funding, Pro-Life Congress Needed

Posted on June 17, 2010
Life News: "Congressman Mike Pence has introduced the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act (H.R. 614), a bill prohibiting the distribution of Title X family planning money to entities that use abortion as a method of family planning."

3rd Circuit: Pro-life protester?s free speech rights violated at the Liberty Bell

Posted on June 17, 2010
"Michael Anthony Marcavage, founder of Repent America ministries, led a group of about 20 protesters holding signs depicting graphic images of aborted fetuses."

Iowa Governor Meets With Planned Parenthood

Posted on June 17, 2010
Kcautv.com: "Iowa Governor Chet Culver is planning on women's vote in the November election. On Wednesday, he met with Planned Parenthood, who has come out in his support."

New President of Catholic U. joined in rebuke of Maine marriage advocate

Posted on June 17, 2010
Diogenes reports at Catholic Culture: "When he introduced John Garvey as the new president of Catholic University, Archbishop Allen Vigneron, the chairman of the board of trustees, told the Washington Post that he expected Garvey to continue the work begun by his predecessor ?to reclaim a Catholic identity? for the school...

Canada: ?MPs call for abortion funding at G8, Conservatives conspicuously absent?

Posted on June 17, 2010
MetroNews.ca: "Members of Parliament are calling on the federal government to put $1.4 billion toward maternal and child health at the G8 summit ? and to include access to safe abortion."

ACLU-KY: ?Court says pregnant women can?t be charged for taking drugs?

Posted on June 17, 2010
ACLU-KY: In cooperation with the national ACLU?s Reproductive Freedom Project, the ACLU of KY submitted an Amicus brief to the Kentucky Supreme Court outlining the constitutional limitations on criminal prosecutions against pregnant women in Cochran v...

Who?s Writing the Opinion in CLS v Martinez?

Posted on June 17, 2010
Casey Maddox writes at the Speak Up Movement Blog (Christian Post Advancing Liberty Blog): "After this morning?s decisions, 4 of the 8 April cases have now been decided. Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Thomas had previously written April opinions. Justice Kennedy announced the Court?s decision today in Quon, the text messaging case...

?California Gay Marriage Case to Conclude First Round in Federal Court?

Posted on June 17, 2010
ABC News (video includes ADF attorney Jordan Lorence): "A federal judge in California heard closing arguments today in the landmark legal case that will determine the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban , first approved by voters as Proposition 8 in November 2008...

Germany: Greens call for ?transgender self-determination? bill

Posted on June 17, 2010
Play Pride: "Alliance 90/The Greens have proposed a new bill for a contemporary transgender law. Our bill puts the self-determination and human dignity of transsexual and transgendered people in the center. In future, the parties themselves decide on their gender...

Maggie Gallagher: Olson applauded for advocating tyranny ? abrogation of the core right to vote

Posted on June 16, 2010
"Olson, as much as any one man, is responsible for the idea that there is no real debate to be had about gay marriage, that all the legitimacy, all the arguments, all the good will and good reasons are on his side . . . "

GAO reports close to $1 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars Spent by Abortion Advocates

Posted on June 16, 2010
"The report outlines the almost $1 billion in taxpayer dollars directed to these organizations. According to GAO, 'expenditures in this report may understate the actual amount of federal funds the selected organizations and their affiliates spent . ...

Maggie Gallagher: Ted Olson?s Answers to Judge?s Question About Religion is an Assault on Free Society

Posted on June 16, 2010
"Translation: Religous Americans with traditional views of marriage and/or sexual morality have no right to organize or vote to advance their beliefs . . . '

Live Blog Coverage of Prop. 8 Oral Arguments

Posted on June 16, 2010
The National Organization for Marriage is live blogging the closing arguments Prop8Case.com.

Proposition 8 supporters argue 18,000 same-sex marriages should not be recognized

Posted on June 16, 2010
". . . the sponsors aren't asking Walker to nullify the 18,000 marriages, but only to rule that government agencies, courts and businesses no longer have to recognize the couples as married . . . "

Wisconsin Pro-Life Group Concerned Telemed Abortions Coming There

Posted on June 16, 2010
LifeNews: he new telemed abortion process Planned Parenthood has started so far in Iowa and it has pro-life advocates up in arms because it puts women at risk by now allowing them a chance to visit with a physician before getting the dangerous drug. Now, there's concern the process may be coming to Wisconsin...

Louisiana: Abortion ultrasound bills wins final legislative approval

Posted on June 16, 2010
"The Louisiana House gave final legislative passage Wednesday morning to a bill that would require a woman to receive an obstetrics ultrasound prior to an abortion."

Cuba, Vatican say talks on dissidents continuing

Posted on June 16, 2010
AP: "Cuba and a top Vatican official expressed optimism Wednesday that landmark negotiations between the church and Raul Castro's government will continue and indicated they could produce more breakthroughs on the treatment of dissidents and political prisoners...

Norway: ?I?ve become an enemy of the people for speaking the truth about Islam?

Posted on June 16, 2010
Bruce Bawer writing at Pajamas Media: "I?ve now been singled out, in a report commissioned and funded by the government of the country in which I live, as a perpetrator of Islamophobia. The items about me appear under the heading 'Prohibit and Eliminate All Forms of Racial Discrimination and To Ensure All Equality before the Law...

Portion of Arizona National Park virtually closed, abdicated to Mexican drug traffickers

Posted on June 16, 2010
KFYI: "The situation with cross-border violence and drug smuggling has gotten so bad along Arizona's southern border with Mexico, that the U.S. Government has set up warnings in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge miles from the border, in effect, closing that part of the park to tourists ...

?Gay rights group: ?Maryland is Next!??

Posted on June 16, 2010
Washington Post: "An e-mail message sent Tuesday from Equality Maryland, the state's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights group says it is assembling "Action Teams" to mobilize pro- same-sex marriage voters to get to the polls in November ...

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