Religion & Law

Text of Obama?s remarks on the nomination of Kagan

Posted on May 10, 2010
The AP carries the text of the President's remarks.

Raquel Welch: ?It?s sex o?clock in America?

Posted on May 10, 2010
Raquel Welch writing at CNN: "Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic in 1916, and nothing would be the same again. Since then the growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values ...

Adopting indecency: Same-sex adoption is not normal

Posted on May 10, 2010
William Murchison writing in Chronicles: "Whatever the large claims made for homosexual adoption, whatever the benefits that accrue to adopted children freed from less-than-good circumstances, the 'gay family' is inherently less than the traditional two-parent family...

Wisconsin: Badgered to death?

Posted on May 10, 2010
Prayer and Action: "Yesterday, our friends at the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) won a major victory at the Madison Surgery Center, where the board had voted last year to perform late-term abortions."

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Greg Baylor: Homosexual behavior, freedom, and the ?helping professions?

Posted on May 10, 2010
ADF Attorney Gregory S. Baylor writing at speakupmovement.org/university: "LifeSiteNews.com reports that the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) is being pressured to expel members who seek to help clients with unwanted same-sex sexual attraction ...

Kevin Theriot: Is the Church relevant to young people?

Posted on May 10, 2010
ADF Attorney Kevin Theriot writing at speakupmovement.org/church: "Yes, the Church is still relevant for young people, and will continue to be - so long as she stands strong for biblical truth, and fulfills her role as the moral compass of society. For instance, we should be encouraged by what some brave young college students are doing today to stand up for religious liberty and God?s word...

Gilbert looks to move past religion flaps

Posted on May 10, 2010
The Arizona Republic: "Last Tuesday, the Town Council gave final approval to an amendment that changes the code to allow worship services in private homes. The Alliance Defense Fund, which represented the Oasis of Truth Church in challenging the code, hailed Gilbert's response...

Hope voiced for ruling in Ref. 71 case

Posted on May 10, 2010
Baptist Press: "The U.S. Supreme Court will protect the identities of supporters of a state initiative to defend marriage in spite of the apparent skepticism of one of its most conservative justices, predicted religious freedom lawyer [Jordan Lorence] ...

Sen. Bob Bennett Ousted at Utah GOP Convention

Posted on May 10, 2010
Newsmax: "Republican Sen. Bob Bennett was thrown out of office Saturday by delegates at the Utah GOP convention in a stunning defeat for a once-popular three-term incumbent who fell victim to a growing conservative movement nationwide . . . " Prospect Looms of Bennett Write-In Candidacy in Utah "As of Monday morning, Bennett had yet to confirm whether he will launch a write-in candidacy, but if he does decide to make another go of it, he won?t have the support of the national party...

Religious group in Leon Valley, Texas fights to hold weekend service

Posted on May 10, 2010
Becket Fund (5/7): "Today, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a brief in federal appeals court defending right of the Elijah Group, a small Evangelical Christian church in Leon Valley, Texas, to hold worship services in its own church building...

Arizona Nudism Case Raises Parenting Questions

Posted on May 10, 2010
Jacksonville Observer: "But the reason for the debate isn?t a religious belief, an incident of sexual abuse or a question of health. The reason is nudism. The questions raised ? whether parents have a right to practice nudism in their own home; whether children need to be protected from it; whether law enforcement can seek to stop it ? put a new twist on a long-standing issue...

Supreme Court nominee has never been a judge and has limited experience practicing law

Posted on May 10, 2010
One News Now: "Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of Liberty University Law School, is opposed to Kagan partly because she has never been a judge and has limited experience in practicing law. And there are other reasons, he says. '[I'm opposed] because I think her judicial philosophy is one of an activist, particularly of a transnationalist that wants to use foreign law to interpret our own domestic law,' Staver explains, adding that she is 'very much in favor of the homosexual agenda and very capable of bringing consensus among a diverse group of people...

UK?s Gordon Brown raises prospect of quitting

Posted on May 10, 2010
AP: "British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday that he will resign - but first hopes to broker a pact with the third-place Liberal Democrats to keep his Labour Party in office as part of a coalition government."

ACLJ Calls on Senate Judiciary Committee to Closely Examine Elena Kagan?s Judicial Philosophy as Supreme Court Nominee

Posted on May 10, 2010
ACLJ: "The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), focusing on constitutional law, today called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to fully examine the judicial philosophy of Solicitor General Elena Kagan, President Obama?s nominee to the Supreme Court...

English language learners represent 25% of school age children in the U.S., but are underrepresented in NYC charter schools

Posted on May 10, 2010
EXPLAINING THE DEARTH OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN NEW YORK CITY CHARTER SCHOOLS By: Jack Buckley & Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj Occasional Paper No. 188 Columbia U. - National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education English language learners (ELLs) comprise approximately 25% of school-aged children in the U...

AP: ?Kagan should have quick path to Supreme Court? ? early August vote possible

Posted on May 10, 2010
AP: "A key Senate Democrat predicted a vote by early August to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice, even as skeptical Republicans warned against a rush to judgment . . . "

Court Explains Continued Jurisdiction Over Santa Rosa Schools Consent Decree

Posted on May 10, 2010
Religion Clause Blog: "A Christian teachers group seeking to intervene argued that the court lacked jurisdiction because the original plaintiffs had graduated high school, rendering the case moot. In Doe v. School Board for Santa Rosa County, 2010 U.S...

Political group led by suspended priest promoting same-sex ?marriage? in Peru

Posted on May 10, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "The political party Tierra y Libertad (Land and Freedom) led by suspended priest Marco Arana is demanding that the Peruvian government embrace the homosexual agenda by allowing same-sex ?marriage? in the country."

WI: After initial surge, same-sex couples applying for benefits slow

Posted on May 10, 2010
WTAQ: "Over 1,300 same-sex couples in Wisconsin applied for the state?s domestic partner benefits in the first 5 months they were offered. About one couple entered the same-sex registry for every 11 traditional marriages in the final 5 months of last year...

Church of England paves way for women bishops

Posted on May 10, 2010
Reuters: "The Church of England has moved a step closer to the consecration of women bishops, setting up a possible showdown with traditionalists who back all-male clergy in the Anglican communion . . . "

SBC?s Richard Land: Ask Kagan whether she believes ?LGBT rights? trump religious freedom

Posted on May 10, 2010
Richard Land quoted at the Christian Newswire: "Just how radical is she on these issues? Ms. Kagan should be asked whether she agrees with Georgetown law professor Chai Feldblum's assertion that when the relative rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered (LGBT) people and other people's religious beliefs conflict and collide legally, 'society should come down on the side of protecting the liberty of LGBT people...

Santa Rita Art Teacher: American Flag and ?God Bless America? ?Offensive?

Posted on May 10, 2010
Associated Content: "In art teacher in a middle school class in the Santa Rita School District in California asked that her class draw anything they wanted. But one student got some unwanted artistic criticism for drawing an American flag with the phrase 'God Bless America...

GA: Senior citizens told they can?t pray before meals

Posted on May 10, 2010
Rome News Tribune: "And with that firm religious footing, Blackwelder said it would be preposterous to stop praying before meals at Port Wentworth's Ed Young Senior Citizens Center near Savannah because of a federal guideline. 'She would say pray anyway,' Blackwelder said of his grandmother...

Sen. Sessions: It?s unacceptable that Kagan banned military recruiters from Harvard

Posted on May 10, 2010
Breitbart.tv carries this CNN interview with Sen. Sessions. It runs just under 2 minutes.

Erik Stanley on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Policy Council: The Church Project

Posted on May 10, 2010
ADF attorney Erik Stanley appeared on Family Policy Matters, NC Family Policy Council to discuss the Church Project. | MP3 Audio 14:30 mins

Jim Campbell on the Jody Hice Show: Ga. counselor fired for refusing to counsel with regard to same-sex relationship

Posted on May 10, 2010
ADF attorney Jim Campbell appeared on the Jody Hice Show to discuss this: ADF to appeal decision against wrongly fired Ga. counselor. | MP3 Audio 11:14 mins

Kagan in ?97 urged Clinton restrict late abortions

Posted on May 10, 2010
Breitbart (AP): "As a White House adviser in 1997, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged then-President Bill Clinton to support a ban on late-term abortions, a political compromise that put the administration at odds with abortion-rights groups . . ...

On Kagan: Where the GOP Might Attack

Posted on May 10, 2010
WSJ Law Blog: "So where specifically are Republicans likely to dig in their heels? Let?s take a quick look at several areas . . . "

Charter Schools? New Cheerleaders: Financiers

Posted on May 10, 2010
NY Times: "Hedge fund executives are thus emerging as perhaps the first significant political counterweight to the powerful teachers unions, which strongly oppose expanding charter schools in their current form."

?AG Lynch supports House bill allowing legally married same-sex couples to divorce in RI?

Posted on May 10, 2010
Rhode Island Government Press Release: "Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch expressed his strong support today for legislation that would expand the RI Family Court's jurisdiction to allow for the petition of a divorce proceeding regardless of whether the couple would have been eligible to marry in Rhode Island...

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