Religion & Law

UN wants new global currency to replace dollar

Posted on September 08, 2009
Telegraph: "Although a number of countries, including China and Russia, have suggested replacing the dollar as the world's reserve currency, the UNCTAD report is the first time a major multinational institution has posited such a suggestion."

D.C. schools to offer STD testing without parental consent

Posted on September 08, 2009
NPR: "[S]ome public high schools in the nation's capital will soon begin offering students screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and will do so without requiring children to obtain parental consent."

Ex-Council Member to Lead Protest of D.C. School Voucher Cuts

Posted on September 08, 2009
Washington Post: "School choice advocates, already trying to pressure the White House to reverse an end to school vouchers in the District, are planning to block the entrance of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters starting at 9:30 a.m. this morning...

9th Circuit upholds ban on ?Ave Maria? at Wash. graduation

Posted on September 08, 2009
"A federal appeals panel has upheld a decision to bar the instrumental performance of a Christian hymn at a high school graduation in Everett, Wash."

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Lambda Legal Condemns Stripping of Domestic Partner Benefits by Arizona Lawmakers

Posted on September 08, 2009
Lambda Legal: "State legislators for months had taken aim at the equal benefits plan approved last year by former Governor Janet Napolitano, now Department of Homeland Security Secretary. On Friday, current Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a budget bill with the provision revoking the health insurance coverage for domestic partners...

Obama to seal US-UN relationship

Posted on September 08, 2009
Financial Times: "Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council."

FedEx Sued for Discrimination Against Christian

Posted on September 08, 2009
ADF allied attorney Jason Craddock has issued this press release published at Culture Campaign: "An employee of a Fortune 100 company answered questions about conservative Christian views and was delivered a career-ending edict to stop all religious conversation...

Vermilion Parish Schools Sued By ACLU over single sex classes

Posted on September 08, 2009
KATC.com: "The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Louisiana today challenging the Vermilion Parish School District's illegal sex segregation policy. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a parent whose two children were placed in sex segregated classrooms without being offered equal coeducational options as required by law...

DC Appeals court upholds lobbying disclosure law

Posted on September 08, 2009
AP: "Federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a 2007 law that requires trade associations to disclose their members who contribute to lobbying activities." National Assoc. of Manufacturers v. Taylor, No. 08-5085 (DC Cir. Sept. 8, 2009)

David French: An unprecedented commitment to the marketplace of ideas

Posted on September 08, 2009
David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, writing at National Review Online's Phi Beta Cons blog: "Today, the Alliance Defense Fund (my employer) announced an unprecedented commitment to free speech on campus. A single donor has given a $9...

Washington Post apologizes for calling NOM head?s views ?sane?

Posted on September 08, 2009
"Yep, let?s reiterate. The Post is saying that it?s not 'neutral' to say that it?s sane to believe that the institution of marriage should be heterosexual."

Group submits personhood amendment to Florida Constitution

Posted on September 04, 2009
Via Reuters, the American Life League announced the submission of the Personhood Amendment to the Florida State Constitution.

Cherie Blair attacks Catholic Church for holding back career women

Posted on September 04, 2009
Telegraph: "A spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland said the church had warned of contraception causing four major problems. These were a general lowering of moral standards, a rise in infidelity, a lessening of respect for women by men and the coercive use of reproductive techniques by government...

Raymond Arroyo on the Kennedy Funeral: ?About cementing the impression that . . . a Catholic politican . . . may licitly ignore the cause of life?

Posted on September 04, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "EWTN News Director and host of the popular EWTN program 'The World Over,' Raymond Arroyo, has written a compelling commentary on retired Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's part in Saturday's burial of Senator Ted Kennedy. Arroyo begins by calling McCarrick's reading of portions of Kennedy's letter and a Vatican response a 'marvelous bit of political theatre (as so much of Senator Kennedy's funeral was)...

Why the black community can?t talk about marriage

Posted on September 04, 2009
Malon Colon writes at the Daily Press: "Ask yourself: When is the last time you heard a public leader talk about the crisis in marriage and family and why it is urgent that as a country we give our attention to this crisis and its consequences? The answer is probably never or rarely...

Cardinal Lashes out at Angry Pro-Lifers, Soft-Pedals Criticism of Kennedy Support for Abortion and Marriage Redefinition

Posted on September 04, 2009
John-Henry Westen writes at LifeSiteNews: "The problem with that of course is that the leaders of the largest and most significant Catholic pro-life groups in the United States never criticized having a funeral per se, just a public one which would be made into a mass-media extravaganza ...

UNFPA Pulls Name From Graphic Sex Ed While Training Activists to Agitate for It

Posted on September 04, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "The same week that UNFPA pulled its name from a graphic sex ed guide that came under criticism, the organization is holding a conference in Berlin to train 400 activists to demand countries fund and provide similar sex ed programs and abortions...

Obama and DOE Violate Federal Law Enlisting Kids in Schools to Push Agenda

Posted on September 04, 2009
Liberty Counsel: "In what is an unprecedented and an illegal political move, President Obama has announced that on Tuesday, September 8, he will bypass parents and directly target their children in an effort to implement his political agenda. Millions of parents are justifiably outraged...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Demands Public Option in Pro-Abortion Health Care

Posted on September 04, 2009
LifeNews: "In some of her strongest comments yet, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding that the final government-run health care bill Congress approves contain the 'public option.'"

C-Span interviews U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Posted on September 04, 2009
How Appealing reports and provides links to the upcoming October 4th programming and YouTube clips. The Washington Post carries this report: Justices Discuss a Changing Supreme Court: Interviews With C-SPAN Reveal Tight Bonds Despite Deep Divisions

Court Enforces Biblically Based Arbitration Agreement

Posted on September 04, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "In Easterly v. Heritage Christian Schools., Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 76269 (SD IN, Aug. 26, 2009), an Indiana federal district court enforced a Biblically-based arbitration agreement between a high school English teacher and the Christian school at which she was employed for some 20 years before she was forced from her job...

Jury Rejects Dance Teacher?s Religious Discrimination Claim

Posted on September 04, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "In San Diego, California yesterday, a state court jury rejected a former public school dance teacher's religious discrimination lawsuit against the Lemon Grove (CA) School District."

Cardinal Says He Confronted Obama on Abortion, Health Care at Kennedy Funeral

Posted on September 04, 2009
LifeNews: "Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the Catholic bishop of Boston, has drawn fire from pro-life Catholics for attending the funeral of the late pro-abortion Sen. Ted Kennedy. O'Malley says he did so with a purpose -- to confront President Barack Obama about abortion funding in the government-run health care bills...

Richmond: ?ACLU: Commission should not pray during meetings?

Posted on September 04, 2009
The Richmond Register: "A long-time tradition of all Richmond City Commission meetings will be erased from the agenda after an Aug. 31 notice from the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky. There will be no prayer given at the beginning of commission meetings, according to city manager David Evans...

David French on the Michael Medved Show: The Marketplace of Ideas on Campus

Posted on September 04, 2009
David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, appeared on the Michael Medved Show to discuss the status of the "marketplace of ideas" on campus. The MP3 runs just over 33 minutes. www.ReclaimCampus.org

Opinion Issued In Case Ordering Parochial School Student Into Public School Band

Posted on September 04, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "A Pennsylvania federal district court has now issued a detailed written opinion explaining the temporary restraining order it issued last week (see prior posting) requiring the the Burrell (PA) High School to permit a student who transferred to a parochial school to remain in the high school band...

Regent Law Panel: ?Freedom of Expression and New Developments in First Amendment Interpretation?

Posted on September 04, 2009
Regent Law Professor James Duane will be participating in a panel discussion on the right to speak during Regent University's 5th Annual Constitution Day Celebration, September 17, 2009. The topic: "Speak at Your Own Risk: Freedom of Expression and New Developments in First Amendment Interpretation...

Transsexual to be transferred to women?s prison

Posted on September 04, 2009
AP: "The prisoner, who began gender reassignment treatment years ago to become a woman, was not named to protect her identity."

Christian activists rally behind runaway teen

Posted on September 04, 2009
Columbus Dispatch: "Outside the Orlando courthouse, it was clear yesterday that the saga of Fathima Rifqa Bary has become much bigger than the private turmoil of a 17-year-old Columbus runaway. Christian supporters of Rifqa, some of them from out of state, held Bibles and tried to crowd into the tiny courtroom alongside an army of newspaper and TV reporters and bloggers...

Runaway teen convert can remain in Florida for now

Posted on September 04, 2009
One News Now: "A 17-year-old girl who says she ran away from her Muslim family in Ohio because she feared she could be killed for converting to Christianity can remain in Florida for now."

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