Religion & Law

An Introduction to Transhumanism: Attempting to Make a New Type of Person

Posted on April 28, 2010
E. Christian Brugger writes at the Culture of Life Foundation: "Technology is now making possible interventions that in addition to a therapeutic aim are intended to augment healthy human capacities. There is a gradual but steady enlargement taking place in medical ideals from simply healing to healing and enhancement...

Supremes raise bar for non-Christians ?offended? by faith

Posted on April 28, 2010
WorldNetDaily: "The U.S. Supreme Court today raised the bar for those who express an 'offense' because of the Christian faith, determining that the Mojave cross in California can remain on the knoll of rock where it has been for more than seven decades...

Quebec ethics course fight heads to top court

Posted on April 28, 2010
CBC News: "Quebec parents opposed to a controversial ethics course are taking their fight to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Drummondville-area parents group is asking the top court to review their request for legal exemption that would allow schoolchildren to skip a mandatory ethics and religion class currently required to graduate...

European officials bid to outlaw smacking in the UK

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Christian Institute: "Parents who smack their children should be prosecuted for assault, according to bureaucrats from the Council of Europe. But family value campaigners are alarmed that 'a vocal minority' of activists are in danger of undermining the authority of parents to discipline their children...

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UK: Lib Dem porn plans slammed by mums

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Christian Institute: "Liberal Democrat plans to allow 16-year-olds to watch and star in pornographic movies have been condemned by furious mothers. Liberal Democrat plans to allow 16-year-olds to watch and star in pornographic movies have been condemned by furious mothers...

BBC?s Evan Davis: Grayling comments not ?homophobic?

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Christian Institute: "It is not 'homophobic' to say Christian B&Bs should be allowed to act upon their conscience over giving double beds to same-sex couples, a homosexual BBC presenter says."

Prop 8 foes relent to release of internal emails

Posted on April 28, 2010
NBC: "The lawsuit against Prop 8 took one teeny-tiny step forward today, as Equality California and the ACLU agreed to release a handful of previously secret emails that their opponents had demanded."

Pole dancing is not art, N.Y. tax appeals panel rules

Posted on April 28, 2010
Law.com: "The two-member Tax Appeals Tribunal held that the routines performed nude or nearly nude by dancers at the Nite Moves club near Albany were largely learned from other dancers or on YouTube and the Internet, and are not the kind of carefully arranged and practiced patterns of movement normally equated with the art of dance...

NY: Long Island hospital issues abortion apology to nurses

Posted on April 28, 2010
New York Post: "A New York hospital has admitted it was wrong when it disciplined eight nurses for refusing to participate in an abortion. Nassau University Medical Center on Long Island apologized to the nurses and said they did nothing wrong."

FL: Senate adds amendment to health bill for ultrasound before abortion

Posted on April 28, 2010
LifeNews: "Florida senators today added an amendment to a health care bill that would allow women considering an abortion to see an ultrasound of their baby. Although abortion centers frequently conduct pre-abortion ultrasounds, they don't necessarily give women a chance to see them...

Alabama passes first anti-human trafficking law

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Samford Crimson: "[House Bill 432], Alabama's first anti-human trafficking legislation, passed in both houses of the Alabama State Legislature merely hours before the 2010 legislative session ended on Thursday, April 22. The bill, which provides extensive protection for victims of labor and sex trade, will add Alabama to the list of 44 states that have strictly criminalized human trafficking under state law, according to the Polaris project...

Kansas: Sex club regulation bill stalls

Posted on April 28, 2010
Topeka Capital-Journal: "The Senate narrowly rejected Wednesday a House bill that would have imposed state regulation of the adult entertainment industry in Kansas. A vote of 20-20, with Topeka Sen. Vicki Schmidt casting the deciding vote, prevented the measure from advancing to Democratic Gov...

Crist to Run as Independent in FL Sen Race

Posted on April 28, 2010
Fox News: "Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist has decided he will run as an independent in the race to fill the Florida U.S. Senate seat, Crist allies tell Fox News. The official announcement is scheduled for Thursday at 5pm ET in St. Petersburg, Florida...

?Suspended Gay Calif. Priest Laments: Abp. Gomez a ?Sharp Thrust to the Right? for LA Diocese?

Posted on April 28, 2010
LifeSiteNews: '[Mahoney's] replacement by someone from Opus Dei clearly communicates that Mahony has lost all practical influence in Rome and was not able to name his successor,' wrote Farrow."

Despite ruling, ACLU will continue to argue that Mojave cross land transfer violates Establishment Clause

Posted on April 28, 2010
ACLU: "The following can be attributed to Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney and Manheim Family Attorney for First Amendment Rights for the ACLU of Southern California, who argued the case before the Supreme Court in October: 'Although we're disappointed by today's decision, we're encouraged that the case is not over...

UN Still Blanketing Ravaged Haiti with Condoms

Posted on April 28, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "One of the access points that the document directs displacement site managers to is 'the PROMESS warehouse in Port au Prince.' LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) had reported shortly after the earthquake that, according to an inside source in Haiti, an enormous supply of condoms was taking up as much as 70% of the floor space in that warehouse and was preventing medical supplies from being unloaded, sorted, and distributed ...

UK: Pedophiles ?swap 2m porn images?

Posted on April 28, 2010
UKPA: "More than two million indecent internet images of children were circulated by 100 child sex offenders convicted in the past 20 months, an NSPCC investigation found."

Canada: Abortion debate dormant no longer

Posted on April 28, 2010
National Post: "If the federal Liberals were seeking a culture war, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in finally putting his foot down this week by insisting Canada would not fund abortions in the developing world, seems prepared to grant one."

The end of a Seattle sexually oriented entertainment empire?

Posted on April 28, 2010
NWCN: "The sources say Steve Fueston, David Ebert, and Leroy Christensen will plead guilty on Wednesday in U.S. District Court to charges of racketeering, money laundering, and promoting prostitution for their roles in a month-long federal criminal investigation into Rick's and three other strip clubs they own - Sugar's, Honey's in Everett, and Fox's in Pierce County...

Calgary U to Judge Pro-Life Students in Closed-Door Hearings Today

Posted on April 28, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "The University of Calgary is proceeding with individual non-academic misconduct hearings, which include the possibility of expulsion, for eight members of the Campus Pro-Life (CPL) student group regarding a pro-life display held earlier this month ...

SEC says no staffers were fired in porn investigation

Posted on April 28, 2010
Washington Post: "None of the Securities and Exchange Commission employees caught using government computers to view pornography has been fired, the agency's inspector general said Tuesday night."

On Supreme Court?s Final Argument Day, First Amendment Dominates

Posted on April 28, 2010
Tony Mauro writes at the National Law Journal: "It was quite a morning for the First Amendment at the Supreme Court, as the justices handed down a major church-state decision and heard oral arguments in a case testing issues of free speech, the right to petition and the right of privacy...

States Should Follow Mississippi, Arizona to Cut Health Care Abortion Funding

Posted on April 28, 2010
" . . . this is an important and necessary fight."

IL: Rep. Deb Mell pushes same-sex ?marriage? with engagement announcement

Posted on April 28, 2010
Chicago Tribune: "State Rep. Deb Mell said she wants nothing more than to marry her partner of nearly six years in her home state of Illinois. Mell ? who six years ago turned to her father, Ald. Richard Mell, 33rd, to help her put a public face on families where a member is gay ? plans to announce her engagement to Christin Baker on the House floor Wednesday...

Why reporters are down on Obama

Posted on April 28, 2010
Politico: 'Most of you covered me. All of you voted for me,' Obama joked last year at the White House Correspondents? Association Dinner. But even then, only four months into his presidency, the joke fell flat . . . And at the very moment many reporters feel shut out, one paper ? The New York Times ? enjoys a favoritism from Obama and his staff that makes competitors fume, with gift-wrapped scoops and loads of presidential face time ...

Nebraska Passes Law Prohibiting Abortion After Twenty Weeks: Implications for Abortion and Animal Rights

Posted on April 28, 2010
Sherry F. Kolb writes at Findlaw: Earlier this month, the State of Nebraska passed a law, scheduled to go into effect later this year, prohibiting all abortions after the twentieth week of pregnancy, with some very narrow exceptions. The express reason for selecting twenty weeks as the cut-off point was that some experts say that this is when a fetus begins to experience pain...

Jordan Lorence on the Roland Letner Show: CLS v. Martinez

Posted on April 28, 2010
ADF attorney Jordan Lorence appeared on the Roland Letner Show to discuss CLS v. Martinez. The MP3 runs approximately 23 minutes.

Mike Johnson on Grassroots America: The National Day of Prayer litigation

Posted on April 28, 2010
ADF attorney Mike Johnson on Grassroots America hosted by George Stephenson to discuss the National Day of Prayer litigation. The MP3 runs approximately 24 minutes.

Greg Baylor on Chris Fabry Live: CLS v. Martinez

Posted on April 28, 2010
ADF attorney Greg Baylor appeared on Chris Fabry Live to discuss Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. The MP3 runs approximately 15 minutes.

Italy: Baby boy survives for nearly two days after abortion

Posted on April 28, 2010
"The 22-week infant later died in intensive care at a hospital in the mother's home town of Rossano in southern Italy. The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled. However the infant survived the procedure ...

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