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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Share Jerusalem With the Palestinians, European Union Tells Israel

Posted on December 09, 2009
CNSNews: "Instead the statement, to be adopted by E.U. heads of government at a summit in Brussels later this week, now says Jerusalem should become the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state, as part of a negotiated peace settlement."

It ?Remains to Be Decided? If Forcing Taxpayers to Fund Abortion is Morally Right, Says Sen. Akaka

Posted on December 09, 2009
CNSNews: "When asked yesterday whether it is morally right to use tax dollars from pro-life taxpayers to pay for insurance plans that cover abortion, Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) said that it 'remains to be decided.'"

Arab countries flop on human rights: report

Posted on December 09, 2009
AFP: "Human rights deteriorated across the Arab world in 2009 with torture widely practised in several countries, namely Egypt, an Arab watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday."

New York School Gives Christmas the Cold Shoulder

Posted on December 09, 2009
Liberty Counsel: "In the Minoa School District, parents received a letter from their school with strict limits that essentially ban all things Christmas from the school?s program."

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Administration Warns of ?Command-and-Control? Regulation Over Emissions

Posted on December 09, 2009
Fox News: "The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a 'command-and-control' role over the process in way that could hurt business."

Omnibus Spending Bill Funds Abortions in Nation?s Capital, Vote Thursday

Posted on December 09, 2009
LifeNews: "A House-Senate Conference committee met Tuesday night to prepare an omnibus bill combining several spending measures that must be approved soon to fund the federal government. The omnibus bill includes a provision that would overturn a longstanding law that stops abortion funding in the nation's capital...

Sen. Casey May Still Back Health Care Bill Despite Defeat of Amendment To Prohibit Federal Funding of Abortion

Posted on December 09, 2009
CNSNews: "Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), a co-sponsor of theNelson-Hatch amendment to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds from paying for any part of a health insurance plan that covers abortion, said he would not draw a 'line in the sand' and not vote for a Senate health care bill even if it does not include the prohibition language...

California Woman Pushing Initiative To Require Christmas Carols In Schools

Posted on December 09, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "Yesterday's Redding, California Record Searchlight reports on the progress of Merry Hyatt who is collecting signatures for a proposed ballot initiative (full text) that would require public schools to 'provide opportunities to its pupils for listening or performing Christmas music at an appropriate time of year...

Feinstein Says It?s ?Morally Correct? to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion

Posted on December 09, 2009
CNSNews: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) told CNSNews.com that using tax dollars from pro-life Americans to pay for insurance plans that cover abortion is morally correct."

Repealing Taxpayers? Conscience Protections on Abortion

Posted on December 09, 2009
Heritage Foundation Foundry Blog: "Conscience protections become yet another banner of liberty trampled by the health care reform stampede, even as its sponsors seek to assure Americans that the overhaul is an expansion of freedom . . ."

Is Federalist Society Membership an Obstacle to Getting Law Firm Jobs?

Posted on December 09, 2009
Ilya Somin writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: "The ongoing discussion over the law firm partner who decided to reject all job applicants with Federalist Society membership raises the question of how common discrimination against Federalist Society members really is in the law firm world ...

Against All Odds Pro-Lifers Make Gains in South Korea

Posted on December 08, 2009
National Right to Life News with Views: "What little I know about South Korea would've precluded the development of significant opposition to abortion. After all, the official tally from the Health Ministry says there are nearly as many abortions (350,000) annually as live births (450,000)...

Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr.: The Roller Coaster Battle for Marriage

Posted on December 08, 2009
Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. writes at the Christian Post: "Last week, I was interviewed by US News and World Report and asked an interesting question: 'What lessons can Christian conservatives take from the loss they received at the hands of the DC Council?' I said that we needed to complement our grassroots organizational success with an increase in political sophistication...

Michigan Senate OKs bill restricting sex business signs

Posted on December 08, 2009
Fox21Online.com: "Sexually oriented businesses in Michigan would face tighter restrictions on their onsite advertising signs under terms of legislation that has passed the state Senate."

Rasmussen: 71% Angry at Federal Government, Up Five Points Since September

Posted on December 08, 2009
Rasmussen: "Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they?re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry."

?Gay, lesbian judges in Cook County? form Alliance of Illinois Judges

Posted on December 08, 2009
"Last summer, the 15 jurists formally organized as the Alliance of Illinois Judges to, among other things, lobby other circuit judges for the appointment of more gays and lesbians as associate judges, mentor law students and encourage the state to extend judges' pensions benefits to domestic partners...

How Cohabitation Is a Sin Against Social Justice

Posted on December 08, 2009
National Catholic Register: "As everyone knows, marriage is an outdated, fossilized, oppressive institution that is constantly changing under our feet, evolving into a freer and higher and better form. And if it isn?t morphing into one of its alternatives, we would be better off without it...

Pope Warns against ?Deceitful? Marxist-Based Theology to Brazilian Bishops

Posted on December 08, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Pope Benedict XVI has decried the 'long painful night of violence and oppression' that was the communist rule in Germany, and, in the same week, commemorated the suppression of Marxist-inspired Liberation Theology pushed by many Catholic churchmen in Latin America in recent decades...

Maine reporter fired for personal e-mail rebutting criticisms of traditional marriage supporters

Posted on December 08, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "A Maine reporter is combating his termination after he says he was fired from his job for issuing a personal email rebutting a homosexualist group's defamation of true marriage advocates."

Dozens in Congress: Oust Obama?s porn-promoter

Posted on December 08, 2009
WorldNetDaily: "EDITOR'S NOTE: The following includes descriptions of adult themes and objectional subject material. More than four dozen members of Congress have signed a letter to President Obama urging the removal of Kevin Jennings, the pro-homosexual activist appointed to head the nation's office of safe schools...

Eugene Volokh says ?No Duty To Subsidize Student Groups,? David French responds

Posted on December 08, 2009
Eugene Volokh writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: "To begin with, I should say that I agree with the Court?s Boy Scouts v. Dale decision: Private groups often do have the First Amendment right to discriminate in choosing their leaders (and their members, though Dale didn?t focus on that), when barring such discrimination would interfere with the groups? ability to spread their message ...

SC: Teen pregnancy rates on the rise locally

Posted on December 08, 2009
The Daily Journal: "The State Department of Health and Environmental Control has reported that teen pregnancies among all races have increased in South Carolina in recent years, and statistics show Oconee and Pickens Counties aren?t immune."

Official Chinese newspaper publishes call to change religion policy

Posted on December 08, 2009
Christianity Today: "A leading Chinese religious scholar called the country ready for 'an institutional guarantee for the legality and quality of all religions,' according to a December article in China Daily, the official government English language newspaper...

?Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal?

Posted on December 08, 2009
AP: "Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals...

Greg Baylor on the Hugh Hewitt Show: UC-Hastings suit at the U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on December 08, 2009
ADF attorney Greg Baylor appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show to discuss U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear lawsuit against UC-Hastings. The MP3 runs just over 5 minutes.

Modern-day lepers ? sex offenders and the church

Posted on December 08, 2009
Mark Friedman writes at the AFA Action Rightly Concerned Blog: "A major problem, in Nolan's view [Pat Nolan of Prison Fellowship], is that many sex offender statutes are written so broadly that they 'lump many people convicted of relatively minor offenses in with the hardcore sex offenders...

Supreme Court to Review Rights of Student Religious Groups

Posted on December 08, 2009
Mark Walsh writes at the School Law Blog on Ed Week: "The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to review whether a public college may deny recognition to a student religious group because the group requires its members to agree with its religious beliefs." The post describes the case and some of its background and context.

Mass. voters taking 1st step to fill Kennedy seat

Posted on December 08, 2009
AP: "Massachusetts voters are beginning the process of selecting Ted Kennedy's replacement in the U.S. Senate."

?How the religious right stole Christmas?

Posted on December 08, 2009
Sandhya Bathija, Communications Associate for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, writes at AlterNet: "The bombastic Fox News host declared that Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire had 'insulted Christians all over the world' when she 'allowed' a Winter Solstice display to stand next to a Christmas tree and a Nativity scene in the state?s capitol building...

ADF attorneys available to media after 9th Circuit arguments in Mt. Soledad cross case

Posted on December 08, 2009
ADF Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco and ADF Legal Counsel Timothy Chandler will be available for media interviews following oral arguments in a long-running lawsuit over the Mt. Soledad Veterans? Memorial. In March, ADF attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of The American Legion Department of California in defense of the 55-year-old Mt...

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