Religion & Law

Rush Limbaugh: America Hangs by a Thread

Posted on March 22, 2010
The opening transcript from Rush Limbaugh's show is available on his website and linked on the Drudge Report.

National Conference of State Legislatures: 2010 legislation related to sexting

Posted on March 22, 2010
NCSL sexting legislation report: "In 2010, at least 15 states have introduced or are considering bills or resolutions aimed at "sexting"?the practice of sending sexually explicit or nude or semi-nude photos of children by cell phone. The legislation generally aims to educate young people about the risks of sexting, deter them from the practice and apply appropriate penalties to those who do engage in sexting...

Connecticut lawmakers take on sexting issue

Posted on March 22, 2010
Associated Press: "Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would try to establish more realistic penalties for teen sexting." | HB 5533 | National Conference of State Legislatures Report on Sexting Legislation

Stupak called ?baby-killer? on House floor

Posted on March 22, 2010
Washington Post: "Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) acknowledged late Sunday night that a Republican yelled 'baby killer' as Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) urged his fellow Democrats to vote down a Republican amendment on abortion services in the health-care legislation...

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WA: Protest, prayers planned against new Renton strip club

Posted on March 22, 2010
KIROTV: "Members of the Celebration Church said they will attend a city council meeting, speak to the council and protest and pray outside City Hall. The city is reviewing its 25-year-old adult entertainment ordinance on light of Club Sin Rock's opening last Thursday...

Hay(worth) Is For Horses

Posted on March 22, 2010
Allen Hunt writes at Townhall: "Homosexuality does not lead to bestiality. However, the institutionalizing of gay marriage does lead to definitional confusion. CNN evidently does not know the difference between these two basic points. In covering J. D...

U.S. states launch lawsuits against healthcare plan

Posted on March 22, 2010
Reuters: "Republican attorneys general in 11 states warned that lawsuits will be filed to stop the federal government overstepping its constitutional powers and usurping states' sovereignty."

UK: Same-sex couple may sue Christian B&B owners

Posted on March 22, 2010
The Christian Institute: "A homosexual couple who, on Friday night, were denied a double room in a Berkshire B&B owned by Christians say they are considering suing. The Christian owners, Mike and Susanne Wilkinson, say it is a matter of religious conscience and they should be free to follow their beliefs in their own home ...

Unions, Public Schools and Minority Children

Posted on March 22, 2010
Star Parker writes at Townhall: "Speaking a couple years ago about technology and education, Apple CEO and founder Steve Jobs said that technology wouldn't matter as long as you can't fire teachers. 'I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way,' he said...

A Way Out of Soviet-Style Health Care: Solzhenitsyn?s prophetic warning about the depersonalization of medicine.

Posted on March 22, 2010
The Wall Street Journal has reprinted this column by the late Milton Friedman: "Is it such a great achievement? What do you mean by 'free'? The doctors don't work without pay. It's just that the patient doesn't pay them, they're paid out of the public budget...

UK: Islamic cartoon row is latest case of libel tourism

Posted on March 22, 2010
Times Online: "Up to 95,000 descendants of the prophet Muhammad are planning to bring a libel action in Britain over 'blasphemous' cartoons of the founder of Islam, even though they were published in the Danish press . . . Yamani is expected to justify the action by claiming that the cartoons, including one of Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban, were accessible in Britain on the internet...

White House Said to Have Short List Ready for Justice Stevens? Slot

Posted on March 22, 2010
Law.com: "The list includes Solicitor General Elena Kagan, appeals court Judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano."

House Roll Call: Changes to Senate health bill

Posted on March 22, 2010
AP: "The 220-211 roll call Sunday by which the House passed the Reconciliation Act of 2010, including key changes to the Senate health care bill. A 'yes' vote is a vote to pass the bill . . . "

High court stays out of Mass. abortion clinic case

Posted on March 22, 2010
AP: "The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a Massachusetts law that creates a protest-free zone around the entrances and driveways of abortion clinics."

Chinese media chastise Google over threat to leave

Posted on March 22, 2010
AP: "China's state-controlled media intensified criticism of Google on Monday, accusing the U.S. company of playing politics by threatening to shut down its China-based search engine."

Christian prof will appeal promotion ruling

Posted on March 22, 2010
OneNewsNow: "[Jordan Lorence], senior counsel with Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), believes UNC-Wilmington refused to promote Dr. Adams because of his religious beliefs and political viewpoints, as espoused through his columns at TownHall.com and elsewhere ...

On campus, ?tolerance? and faith collide

Posted on March 22, 2010
USA Today: "Should a student religious group at a public university be allowed to bar a certain group of students from membership ? gay students, to be precise ? without losing its official student-group status, and the funding and other benefits that go with it? ...

Arizona town apologizes, allows church meetings

Posted on March 22, 2010
OneNewsNow: "An Arizona town is backtracking its zoning laws after halting house church meetings . . . 'Thankfully, the town has since apologized to the church and is taking steps to fix what they did and protect the religious liberty of both the Oasis of Truth Church and other churches in the Gilbert area,' [Blomberg] reports...

Gather around but drop that Bible

Posted on March 22, 2010
EnidNews: "In the city of Gilbert, Ariz., you apparently can gather your friends for a football game at your house, have an all-out bachelor (or bachelorette) party in your home or maybe just have a few friends over for a quaint evening of discussion as long as you don?t discuss the Bible ...

UK Supreme Court considers prenuptial agreements

Posted on March 22, 2010
AP: "That reputation was put to the test Monday as the Supreme Court began hearing a dispute between a German heiress and her ex-husband, a case that hinges on the issue of whether prenups can be enforced in England, one of the few countries in which they have no legal standing...

Digging Deeper Into China?s Grid-Hacking Research

Posted on March 22, 2010
"The New York Times just ran a story on a year-old paper written by two Chinese researchers which documented a more efficient way to create a cascading failure on the Western power grid of the U.S. The focus of the article by John Markoff and David Barboza wasn't on the research itself, but instead it focused on the atmosphere of paranoia surrounding the U...

Obama to Sign Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill Tuesday, Will ?Keep Word? on Order

Posted on March 22, 2010
LifeNews: "Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced this morning that President Barack Obama will sign the pro-abortion health care bill into law on Tuesday."

Christian educators group files appeal in prayer case

Posted on March 22, 2010
Pensacola News Journal: "U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers said in a Feb. 19 decision that Christian Educators Association International lacked standing to intervene in the case because it hadn't demonstrated that the agreement between the ACLU and the district to discontinue pray in schools created a reasonable "chill" on its members' First Amendment rights...

Obama: ?America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach this moment.?

Posted on March 22, 2010
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Jim Lindgren has posted a recent email sent out by the White House. What is the 100 year reference is about?

Court Upholds Rights of Evangelists To Leaflet At Catholic Parish Festival

Posted on March 22, 2010
Religion Clause Blog: "Teesdale v. City of Chicago, (ND IL, March 17, 2010), is a suit by Garfield Ridge Baptist Church and five of its members who were prevented by police acting as security guards from handing out religious tracts, and from using a megaphone, at a Festival being held (with a city permit) by a Catholic parish on parish grounds and surrounding streets...

Will Gilbert do right by churches?

Posted on March 22, 2010
ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg writes in the East Valley Tribune: "Of course, cities can have some reasonable regulations on how homes are used, preventing your next-door neighbor's duplex from being turned into a shopping mall or a convention center. But such regulations are only legitimate when focused on concerns like traffic, parking, building code safety, and the like...

Arizona Senate approves abortion reporting bill

Posted on March 22, 2010
AP: "The Arizona Senate has approved a bill to strengthen reporting requirements on abortions . . . "

SC county councilman?s prayer sparks protest

Posted on March 22, 2010
WMBFNews.com (AP): "A South Carolina councilman's prayer to Jesus against abortion and same-sex marriage to open a county council meeting has drawn at least one complaint . . . "

Prop. 8 opponents must release memos

Posted on March 22, 2010
AP: "Civil rights groups that campaigned against California's same-sex marriage ban have lost an attempt to withhold internal memos and e-mails from lawyers for the other side . . . "

CO: Growing churches butt heads with city planners

Posted on March 22, 2010
Denver Post: "Growing churches and their home communities sometimes find themselves at an uncomfortable crossroads, where the demands of a burgeoning congregation conflict mightily with local land-use rules. Colorado churches, backed by a powerful federal law, have been bold in making their case for expansion, with some arguing that plans for bigger, better church campuses trump planning maps...

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