Religion & Law

Abortion Clinic Closed after Regulators Find Aborted Baby Parts in Jars

Posted on February 24, 2010
CNSNews: "Pennsylvania regulators say federal raids at a Philadelphia clinic where abortions are performed found 'deplorable and unsanitary' conditions, including blood on the floor and parts of aborted fetuses in jars."

Turkey objects to ?gay marriage? allusion in Council of Europe document

Posted on February 24, 2010
Hurriyet Daily News: "The Council of Europe has amended an article of its declaration on children?s rights after Turkey objected to a specific article alluding to gay marriage . . . The council considered Turkey?s objection and amended the relevant article...

?Russia refuses to register NGO set up to help sexual minorities?

Posted on February 24, 2010
InterFax: "The Russian Justice Ministry has rejected an application to register Marriage Equality, a nonprofit organization set up to provide legal assistance and information services to sexual minorities."

Walmart Shutting Down Vudu?s Porn Section

Posted on February 24, 2010
Washington Post: "When it was announced that retailer Walmart would buy streaming movie startup Vudu a couple days ago, a number of sites wondered what it would mean for Vudu's adult content. Here's what it means: bye bye."

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Apple Removes Explicit Option From iTunes

Posted on February 24, 2010
Gizmodo: "According to the developer, Apple said that, while they are thinking about it, 'it's not going to happen anytime soon.'"

Endorsement of open homosexual behavior in military already imperiling religious freedom

Posted on February 24, 2010
"This legislation would more than open the Armed Forces to homosexuals; it would lead to a zero-tolerance policy toward anyone who disapproves of homosexuality . . ."

Multi-Site Churches Spreading in Post-Christian Europe

Posted on February 24, 2010
Christian Post: 'We drew a circle around a 30 minute travel distance from our central meeting place, and asked what would happen if we drew another 30 minute distance around the outside of that,' ND Strupler, coach for ICF Team and Start-Up's, says in the report...

Wisconsin Governor signs ?Healthy Youth Act? into law

Posted on February 24, 2010
WBAY: "The Healthy Youth Act is designed to ensure the most current sex education standards are taught in Wisconsin public schools."

The Great Recession of 2011-2012

Posted on February 24, 2010
James Srodes writes at the American Spectator: "The truth is our wizards dare not admit that the levers they pull are not really connected to the true crisis that confronts America or its place in the global market. Despite the self-congratulatory assurances from the White House, Congress, and part of Wall Street that we have been saved from a slide into a 1930s depression, our most serious trials still lie ahead of us...

Spanish Senate approves new abortion law

Posted on February 24, 2010
CBS: "Spain on Wednesday approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church...

Is Embryo Adoption Immoral?

Posted on February 24, 2010
Russell D. Moore write at the Christian Post: "I received an email from a man who was upset about a couple in his extended family who are pursuing a so-called 'snowflake adoption,' the adoption of a 'frozen embryo' (to use, for clarity?s purpose only, the satanically clinical lingo of the current era)...

LA school board snubs charter school operators

Posted on February 24, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: "The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday voted to reject a number of applications from charter school operators, choosing instead to hand control of nearly 30 schools to nonprofit educational groups formed by teachers and administrators already employed by the district...

?Judge OKs another same-sex marriage in Argentina?

Posted on February 24, 2010
Yahoo News (AFP): "A judge on Tuesday authorized two men to marry in Buenos Aires in what would be the country's second same-sex marriage."

Have babies to win gold, say Russian champions

Posted on February 24, 2010
Breitbart (AFP): "Russia's biathlon relay team revealed the secret weapon behind Tuesday's gold medal success at the Winter Olympics and recommended their rivals do the same: have babies."

Video: Forsyth County Official Suggests Conservative Christians are Racist?

Posted on February 24, 2010
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New York?s top court makes ruling on its own pay raises

Posted on February 24, 2010
The state's top court ruled on its own pay raises Tuesday morning, insisting the governor and Legislature violated the constitution by linking judicial salary hikes to other non-related issues."

Missile Defense Agency Logo Angers Right

Posted on February 24, 2010
CBS: "The Drudge Report and other conservative sites are highlighting a newly-unveiled logo for the U.S. Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency and complaining that the new logo (pictured at left) is reminiscent of both the Obama campaign logo and an Islamic flag...

Missouri sales tax proposal would affect Catholic school tuition

Posted on February 24, 2010
CNA: "A proposed Missouri 'mega-sales tax' would affect private school tuition and would unfairly burden parents who send their children to Catholic schools, the Missouri Catholic Conference has warned."

Alaska court hears challenge to parent notification ballot initiative

Posted on February 24, 2010
Fairbanks News Miner: "The Anchorage Superior Court is hearing a challenge to a ballot initiative to require a parent to be notified if a girl under 18 seeks an abortion."

Arizona House panel approves bill requiring presidential candidates to show birth certificates

Posted on February 24, 2010
LA Times: "Nearly half of the Arizona Legislature wants to force President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election."

Virginia Court of Appeals rules again Miller v. Jenkins, child custody case

Posted on February 24, 2010
The Virginia Court Court of Appeals has issued this ruling in Miller v. Jenkins, No. 0705-09-4. (Va. Ct. App. Feb. 23, 2010). For more background on the case, click the case name tag below.

China Launches Strict New Internet Controls It Says Are Aimed At Eliminating Online Porn

Posted on February 23, 2010
CBS: "China's technology ministry moved to tighten controls on Internet use Tuesday, saying individuals who want to operate Web sites must first meet in person with regulators."

India: Churches attacked as trouble brews over Jesus picture row

Posted on February 23, 2010
Christian Today: "Two churches have been burnt to the ground and Christians attacked after tension erupted on Saturday over the publication of an offensive poster of Jesus Christ in an in Batala, Punjab, in India."

Vermont judge orders arrest of mom for refusing to turn daughter over to former lesbian partner

Posted on February 23, 2010
AP on Boston Globe: "A Vermont judge has ordered the arrest of a woman who has refused to turn over her 7-year-old daughter to her former lesbian partner."

MA: Planned Parenthood?s plan stirs secularists

Posted on February 23, 2010
Telegram: "An organization of Central Massachusetts secularists has joined the heated fray over Planned Parenthood's decision to locate here ? prompted in large part by the vocal opposition to the facility by conservative religious organizations."

David French: Introducing the four D?s

Posted on February 23, 2010
Young America's Foundation: "Young America's Foundation has generously given me some space on their blog, and I?m going to use the next few days to introduce you to the 'Four D?s,' my shorthand method of guiding conservative activists to effective advocacy...

The Times: Law should be changed to allow churches to hold civil partnership ceremonies

Posted on February 23, 2010
Times Online leading article: "Benjamin Disraeli believed the Church of England to be 'a part of our liberties, a part of our national character'. If it has any hope of continuing in that role, the Church ? and the Government ? must recognise that our liberties today should include the right of homosexuals to register the most important promise of their lives in a church...

Iraq: ?Mosul becoming a graveyard for Christians?

Posted on February 23, 2010
Independent Catholic News: "The ferocity and horror of the 'truly cold-blooded murders' of four Christians in the last four days seem to have left their mark on the community of believers. 'It is an ethnic cleansing that goes on day after day, in silence and indifference...

UK columnist: Ban faith schools

Posted on February 23, 2010
Politics UK: "The British legal system knows how to treat children: as humans incapable of giving consent. So why doesn't the government? Allowing parents to force their children into faith schools is just really child abuse, as Richard Dawkins ably pointed out last year...

?Genetics and Proposition 8: Human sexual orientation has deep biological roots?

Posted on February 23, 2010
LA Times: "There was an elephant in the San Francisco courtroom where lawyers contested the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the California law that prohibits the marriage of same-sex couples. One key issue should influence every aspect of the Perry vs...

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