Religion & Law

N.J. State Bar Likes ?Virtual Office? Ban, but is it anti-family?

Posted on April 01, 2010
Law.com (NJ Law Journal): "The president of the New Jersey State Bar Association said on Wednesday he agrees with the state judiciary's advisory opinion warning lawyers they violate New Jersey's bona fide office rule when they list and advertise space rented on a periodic basis as their primary place of business...

IL: Give abortion notification law chance to work

Posted on March 31, 2010
State Journal-Register Editorial: "On June 1, 1995, Gov. Jim Edgar signed into law a bill requiring that girls under age 18 notify a parent or guardian before having an abortion in Illinois . . . Later that same day, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in federal court in Chicago alleging that the new law violated the affected girls? right to privacy and was therefore unconstitutional...

VA: Politicians rally around Richmond charter school

Posted on March 31, 2010
Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Richmond politicians rallied tonight around the Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts, a south Richmond project struggling to attain its goal of becoming the state?s only elementary charter school."

Kansas Sends Bill to Enforce Late-Term Abortion Laws to Governor Parkinson

Posted on March 31, 2010
LifeNews: "The House approved [HB 2215] 83-36, one vote shy of a veto proof majority and now the bill goes to Governor Parkinson, who may veto it."

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?Homosexual activist appeals exoneration of Canadian Pastor Boissoin?

Posted on March 31, 2010
". . . . the process then becomes the punishment regardless of the ruling. Years and years of fighting a malicious accusation.'"

Nebraska Bill to Ban Late-Term Abortions Based on Fetal Pain Passes First Vote

Posted on March 31, 2010
LifeNews: "A Nebraska bill that could set a national precedent for banning late-term abortions based on the concept of fetal pain has received its first approval vote from the unicameral state legislature. Nebraska lawmakers voted 38-5 for [Legislative Bill 1103] so it would advance to the second round of debate...

Abortion is Safer Than Childbirth? Studies Show Abortion More Risky for Women

Posted on March 31, 2010
Evangeline Jones writes at Life News: "Recent analyses of large medical databases that link to death certificates (?record linkage studies?) show that pregnancy-associated deaths are between two and four times higher for women who abort than for women who deliver...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Urges Canada to Promote Abortion at G8 Mtg

Posted on March 31, 2010
LifeNews: "Harper was initially reluctant to include contraception in the centerpiece plan Canada is advocating, but he has ruled out including abortion. That met with opposition from Clinton, a longtime abortion advocate and the top international official in the administration of pro-abortion President Barack Obama ...

Journalists? E-Mails Hacked in China

Posted on March 31, 2010
NY Times: "In what appeared to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights advocates, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders. A Chinese human rights organization also said that hackers had disabled its Web site for five days in a row ...

China?s Censors Thrive in Obscurity

Posted on March 31, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "The confusion over a major outage in China of Google Inc.'s search sites on Tuesday spotlights one of the most remarkable aspects of the Chinese government's Internet censorship apparatus: It is designed to be obscure."

?Catholic bishops intervene in British election?

Posted on March 31, 2010
Washington Post (AP): "In a guide to the election, Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols urges voters to back lawmakers who 'support marriage as a key building-block of a stable society' and who oppose abortion and euthanasia."

Just in Time for Easter: Romanian Refugees Denied Religious Freedom in Dallas County

Posted on March 31, 2010
Liberty Legal Institute: "A Romanian Orthodox church is wrongfully being taxed by Dallas County, which may cause the church to fold forever, just in time for Easter! Outrageously, the Dallas County Appraisal District denied the congregation a tax-exempt status and has assessed a tax of 30 percent of the church's annual budget ? a church whose members are immigrants and refugees who came to the United States in search of freedom ...

Muslim scholars recast jihadists? favourite fatwa

Posted on March 31, 2010
Reuters: "A conference in Mardin in southeastern Turkey declared the fatwa by 14th century scholar Ibn Taymiyya rules out militant violence and the medieval Muslim division of the world into a 'house of Islam' and 'house of unbelief' no longer applies...

Day of Reckoning for the ACLU?s Attempts to Criminalize Prayer in Santa Rosa County

Posted on March 31, 2010
Liberty Counsel: "The ACLU has been hiding a critical secret in its continuing attempts to criminalize prayer in the schools of Santa Rosa County: It has been litigating to salvage an unconstitutional Consent Decree without clients that have a legal interest in its actions...

Maryland: Impeachment Threat Over Gay Marriage

Posted on March 31, 2010
NY Times: "Don H. Dwyer Jr., a Republican member of the House of Delegates, plans to bring impeachment charges on the House floor on Wednesday against the state?s attorney general, Douglas F. Gansler . . . "

?Army chief sees defacto moratorium on gay discharges?

Posted on March 31, 2010
Reuters: "The Army secretary said on Wednesday he would not discharge gay personnel who admitted their sexual orientation to him, despite the 'don't ask, don't tell' stance that remains official military policy."

N.J. Supreme Court upholds privacy of personal e-mails accessed at work

Posted on March 31, 2010
NJ Ledger Star: "A company should not have read e-mails a former employee wrote to her lawyer from a private, password-protected web account, even though she sent them from her employer?s computer, according to a state Supreme Court ruling today that attorneys said could influence workplace privacy rules across the country ...

MS: Constance McMillen Invited to Private Prom, Lesbian Partner and Tux Allowed

Posted on March 31, 2010
CBS: "Constance McMillen has (finally) been invited to the private senior prom meant to replace the one that was canceled by the school board in her small Mississippi town."

Duke University Women?s Center issues apology to pro-life group after dustup

Posted on March 31, 2010
LifeNews: "The Duke University Women's Center has issued a letter of apology after it denied the campus pro-life student group space for an event on motherhood. The center abruptly canceled a Duke Students for Life event on the day of the meeting because it was engaging in pro-life activities elsewhere on campus...

Live Action pleased with school?s change of heart

Posted on March 31, 2010
OneNewsNow: "A college student in New York is now free to distribute a pro-life publication . . . '[S]tudent Joseph Hayon was distributing The Advocate to his peers, and the administration ordered him to cease distributing the magazine, telling him he could no longer distribute it,' [Live Action president Lila Rose] reports ...

AZ: Gilbert officials aim to revise arbitrary ordinance

Posted on March 31, 2010
OneNewsNow: "Gilbert, Arizona, is trying to straighten out its zoning laws for the sake of house churches . . . Alliance Defense Fund wrote a letter to the city, outlining the churches' constitutional rights. Meanwhile, Mayor Lewis had a chance to attend a church service at the home targeted by the city ...

TN: Cheatham County seminar will focus on teachers? religious rights

Posted on March 31, 2010
The Ashland City Times: "Cheatham County educators are invited to attend a teleconference that organizers say will focus on the constitutional rights of religious persons in public schools . . . The Cheatham County Ministerial Alliance, Family Action Council of Tennessee and Alliance Defense Fund are sponsoring the conference...

West Virginia woman gets medical care after hospital refuses treatment

Posted on March 31, 2010
LifeNews: "An Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) allied attorney secured an agreed-upon court order Friday that extends care for a 40-year-old woman on dialysis at Ruby Memorial Hospital after the hospital originally said it would end treatment on March 27 against the wishes of the woman?s family...

Body parts found at Kansas medical waste company

Posted on March 31, 2010
AP: "Three individuals have been identified so far among six heads and numerous other human body parts found in a truck at a Kansas medical waste facility, including at least one man who was to have been cremated, a coroner said Tuesday."

GOP wary of health law repeal push in fall races

Posted on March 31, 2010
AP: "It's fine to criticize the health law and the way Democrats pushed it through Congress without a single GOP vote, these party leaders say. But focusing on its outright repeal carries two big risks."

Rural tradition eyed after China dead babies find

Posted on March 31, 2010
AP: "Rural traditions of abandoning dead infants may have played a role in the case of 21 babies' bodies found along a river in eastern China, apparently dumped by hospital mortuary workers."

Alan Sears: Feldblum Appointment Underscores Threat of Homosexual Agenda to Liberty

Posted on March 31, 2010
"Ms. Feldblum is on record as stating that 'private beliefs' that do not affirm homosexual behavior should not be tolerated in American society . . ."

The Dirty Secret Of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on March 31, 2010
"What might Americans think if they knew the ES cell research 'decades away' secret?"

ADF attorneys to debate in Illinois, Kansas on Supreme Court case involving Christian student group

Posted on March 31, 2010
lliance Defense Fund attorneys will participate in two law school debates next week sponsored by campus chapters of The Federalist Society on the subject of the U.S. Supreme Court case Christian Legal Society v. Martinez.

3 Republican legislators challenge same-sex ?marriage? effort at N.J. Supreme Court

Posted on March 31, 2010
New Jersey Newsroom: "Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund representing New Jersey legislators filed a motion to intervene Monday to defend against a recently filed motion in what seemed to be a long-ago-resolved lawsuit that seeks to force the Legislature to redefine marriage ...

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