Religion & Law

Why AT&T Killed Google Voice

Posted on August 19, 2009
Andy Kessler writes at the Wall Street Journal: "Some might say it is time to rethink our national communications policy. But even that's obsolete. I'd start with a simple idea. There is no such thing as voice or text or music or TV shows or video. They are all just data...

Rejected voucher schools sue

Posted on August 19, 2009
EdNews.org: "In a lawsuit filed this month, the organizers contend that Evers and Marquette University violated the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment by turning over the legislative authority to approve voucher schools to a private party, the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette...

Swiss to reveal UBS accounts to settle U.S. tax battle

Posted on August 19, 2009
Reuters: "Switzerland has agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS AG to U.S. authorities in a tax dispute settlement that pierces Swiss banking secrecy and now threatens to spill over to other banks."

Connecticut: ?Adult Store Permit Causes Outcry In Southington?

Posted on August 19, 2009
Hartford Courant: "An overflow crowd packed Tuesday's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to voice displeasure over an adult-oriented store receiving a zoning permit to open at the old Ethan Allen furniture store, according to published reports."

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San Francisco: Heaven Strip Club Ordered To Shut Down Today

Posted on August 19, 2009
SFAppeal.com: "You remember Heaven, the North Beach strip club City Attorney Dennis Herrera's been hot to shutter since July, when he said it was 'a public nuisance, having allegedly violated city codes and having been cited for prostitution.' Today Superior Court Judge Charlotte Walter Woolard granted his motion to shut it down, effective immediately...

Proposition 8 Lawsuit on a Fast Track ? January 11 trial date set

Posted on August 19, 2009
Leonard Link: "[Ted Olson and David Boies] They argued that their lawsuit was different from all of those cases, because this was about the passage of a state constitutional amendment to take away a fundamental right that had previously been recognized under the state constitution by the California Supreme Court in its May 2008 Marriage Cases ruling...

David French: Yale?s refusal to print

Posted on August 19, 2009
David French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, has taken up the issue of Yale University refusing to publish content on grounds that it could trigger Islamic violence. David writes at the National Review Phi Beta Cons Blog: "The very idea that there are certain citizens whose beliefs are beyond reproach or even mockery is offensive to the idea of democratic society...

?Illinois May Not Fund Religion, Americans United Warns State Officials?

Posted on August 19, 2009
Americans United for Separation of Church and State: "Americans United for Separation of Church and State today challenged Illinois state government?s plan to distribute millions of dollars in state funds to religious organizations."

There they go again: Univ. of Wis. back in court over discrimination

Posted on August 19, 2009
This is the sixth lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin system in which ADF has been involved.

Suit filed to stop federal funding of embryonic stem cell research

Posted on August 19, 2009
A lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia seeks to enjoin and overturn the controversial guidelines for public funding of embryonic stem cell research that the National Institutes of Health issued on July 7, 2009.

Students React as Religious Liberty, Conscience Protections Placed at Risk

Posted on August 19, 2009
Christian Newswires carries this release by the American Life League: "Students at Catholic universities across the nation are banding together with students at Belmont Abbey College in a stand for religious liberty and conscience rights."

Statewide Campaign Against Tax-Funded Abortion Launched in California

Posted on August 19, 2009
Christian Newswire: "Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust announced they will be organizing with pro-lifers throughout California to campaign against tax-funded abortion in Obama's Healthcare Reform bill."

Judge sets January trial date for Prop. 8 case

Posted on August 19, 2009
AP: "A judge has set a Jan. 11 trial date for a federal lawsuit challenging California's gay marriage ban."

Judge: US wrong to freeze Ohio Islamic charity?s assets

Posted on August 19, 2009
AP: "The federal government must have probable cause to seize an organization's assets even when it involves national security, a federal judge ruled in a case involving an Ohio-based charity accused of having ties to the militant Islamic group Hamas...

ACLU: ?LGBT Community Groups Disappointed By Court?s Denial To Join Federal Prop 8 Case?

Posted on August 19, 2009
ACLU: "Today Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco denied the request of Our Family Coalition; Lavender Seniors of the East Bay; and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) to join Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a federal lawsuit challenging California?s Proposition 8...

?Study: Homosexuals Twice as Likely to Seek Mental Health, Substance Abuse Treatment?

Posted on August 19, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "A study led by Susan Cochran and her team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, published in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry, reports that homosexuals seek treatment for mental health issues or substance abuse at a rate over two times higher than heterosexuals...

?Pro-Choice? Abortionist Interviewer Surprised by Her Reaction to Witnessing Abortion

Posted on August 19, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Newsweek's Sarah Kliff added her voice to the media campaign softening the image of late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart on Saturday with her report 'The Abortion Evangelist', but says she did not anticipate and has difficulty explaining her emotional reaction to witnessing Carhart actually take the life of an unborn child...

ADF rebuts NY hospital?s claim that pro-life nurse can?t sue

Posted on August 19, 2009
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys submitted a brief in federal court Monday in response to the claim of New York?s Mount Sinai Hospital that a pro-life nurse who sued the hospital has no right to defend herself in court. A

Wed. ruling is expected on whether groups can join Proposition 8 lawsuit

Posted on August 18, 2009
Smart Brief reports that a Wednesday decision is expected "on whether the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights will be permitted to join in a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn California's Proposition 8 marriage ban...

Nebraska Launches Investigation Into Carhart?s Abortion Business

Posted on August 18, 2009
Operation Rescue on the Christian Newswire: "Operation Rescue has received written confirmation from the Nebraska Attorney General's office that a request for a comprehensive investigation into late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart's abortion business has been directed to the Nebraska Department of Health and Environment where the progress of that agency's investigation will be monitored by the Attorney General's office...

Delaware asks dismissal of sports betting appeal

Posted on August 18, 2009
Philly.com (AP): "Attorneys for the state want a federal court to dismiss an appeal involving Delaware's planned sports betting lottery . . . " Related: Congress scrutinizes Delaware, New Jersey gambling laws

Pro-life group calls for Pitino?s firing

Posted on August 18, 2009
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission: "A University of Louisville student pro-life organization has called for the dismissal of men?s basketball coach Rick Pitino after he acknowledged committing adultery and providing $3,000 to his sexual partner for an abortion she underwent...

Washington: R-71 signature check nears halfway point

Posted on August 18, 2009
Washington Secretary of State: "Overall, the error rate is currently 11.03 percent, considerably lower than the 20-year average of about 18.5 percent, and still below the maximum error rate the sponsors can absorb, about 12.4 percent."

Sotomayor?s first vote on death penalty

Posted on August 18, 2009
SCOTUS Blog: "The newest Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, on Monday night cast her first vote in a death penalty case, joining three other members of the Supreme Court in dissent as the Court permitted the execution Tuesday of an Ohio inmate, Jason Getsy, 33...

SG Kagan Breaks Her Vows?

Posted on August 18, 2009
"In an exchange with Senator Feingold, [Kagan] . . . made clear the obvious point that an effective advocate must give the impression that he believes his own arguments, whether or not he actually does . . ."

Rash of attacks on Christians reported in Sri Lanka

Posted on August 18, 2009
Christian Telegraph: Attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka have surged noticeably in recent weeks, following the government?s defeat of Tamil separatists in May, reports Jeremy Reynalds, correspondent for ASSIST News Service

Conference: Human Trafficking, Child Abduction, Internet and Pornography

Posted on August 18, 2009
Christian Newswire: "Human trafficking threatens national security. Drug cartels are involved. . . . Child prostitution is rampant in America? Nearly 800,000 children reported missing per year IN AMERICA. Human trafficking has become the second biggest money-maker in the world and threatens national security...

World NGOs seek end to blocs in U.N. rights council

Posted on August 18, 2009
Reuters: "Human rights groupings around the world are calling for an end to the bloc system in the United Nations main rights forum which they say enables countries guilty of gross abuses to sit on the body."

White House wages war on marriage act: If DOMA declared unconstitutional, ?individual states would be sitting ducks?

Posted on August 18, 2009
Brian Raum: "If federal DOMA were to be struck down, that whole area of the law would be in jeopardy." (WorldNetDaily)

AARP loses approx. 60,000 members over health care stance

Posted on August 18, 2009
USA Today: "About 60,000 senior citizens have quit AARP since July 1 due to the group's support for a health care overhaul, a spokesman for the organization said Monday."

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