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Harvard Law Dean Nominated to Board of Legal Services Corp.

Posted on August 07, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "Martha L. Minow, who earlier this year was named Dean of the Harvard Law School, has now also been nominated by President Barack Obama to be a board member of the Legal Services Corporation."

Lodi prayer debate heats up: Minister ends ?Amen,? audience yells ?in Jesus name?

Posted on August 07, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: ". . . Council postponed Wednesday's scheduled discussion of the policy to a special meeting scheduled for Sept. 30 . . . Meanwhile inside Methodist minister, Rev. Alan Kimber, delivered a non-sectarian invocation-- a moment of silence and then thanks for our country's freedom to express different beliefs...

Western State University College of Law wins full accreditation

Posted on August 07, 2009
The National Law Journal: "California now has 19 fully accredited law schools. The American Bar Association has granted Western State University College of Law full accreditation. Final approval for the accreditation of the for-profit Fullerton, Calif...

?Wisconsin LGBTs confident of court victory for domestic partnerships?

Posted on August 07, 2009
EDGE: "The WFA, fronted by president Julaine Appling, filed the petition with the Supreme Court on July 23. Appling, along with representatives from the First Freedoms Foundation and Alliance Defense Fund, claim the registry undermines marriage."

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Liberal Anglicans declare war on conservatives in the Church

Posted on August 07, 2009
Times Online: "Their strategy will be to attempt to win the General Synod, the Church?s governing body currently dominated by evangelicals, over to the liberal cause. The opportunity will come next year when the quinquennial elections for a new synod are due...

ACLU questions removal of atheists? bus ads

Posted on August 07, 2009
Des Moines Register: "The removal this week from transit buses of an advertisement promoting a Des Moines atheist group has gotten the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union."

ACLU pushes for parent awareness of military opt-out option

Posted on August 07, 2009
JournalStar.com: "The American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska wants to make sure parents know they can keep their high school students' records from military recruiters - if they wish."

Pro-lifers prevail in federal court after 18 years!

Posted on August 07, 2009
"The federal court granted Bryan Brown?s motion in full, vacating both the injunction and the order of February 21, 1991 that saddled all three Defendants (Wendell Brane and one other) with the duty to pay the abortionists the devilish amount of $61,616...

Members of Congress call for LGBT benefits at UN

Posted on August 07, 2009
GayPolitics.com: "The full text of the letter to Ambassador Susan Rice can be found here."

Has APA given nod to ?gay? change therapy?

Posted on August 07, 2009
"Warren Throckmorton . . . said the APA believes if there hasn't been a change in what Christians would call 'temptation,' then there hasn't been true change . . . "

11th Circuit upholds child pornography conviction against Double Jeopardy challenge

Posted on August 07, 2009
U.S. v. Edward Curtis Bobb, No. 07-13252 (11th Cir., Aug. 6, 2009) 11th Circuit upholds conviction for ?receipt? and ?possession? against Double Jeopardy challenge because criminal conduct occurred on different days. A summary of the case is available at the Community Defense Counsel.

Colorado Court of Appeals: Downloading child porn does not constitute ?sexual exploitation of a child?

Posted on August 07, 2009
People v. Mantos, 07CA2107 (Colo. App., Aug. 6, 2009) The Colorado Court of Appeals found that that ?downloading and saving sexually exploitative material in a share-capable computer file? does not ?constitute the felony offense of sexual exploitation of a child...

?Nine Republicans Vote to Confirm Sotomayor Despite Philosophical Differences With Her?

Posted on August 07, 2009
CNSNews: "Republican senators who decided to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court said their job was to examine whether she was qualified and not whether they agree with every decision she has made and will make."

Islamic Law Database

Posted on August 06, 2009
Eugene Volokh writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: "If you're really interested in Islamic law and the law of the Muslim world, check out the Social Science Research Network forthcoming article database on the subject."

Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court, Expected to Back Abortion

Posted on August 06, 2009
"Members of the Senate voted 68-31 today to approve appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for a seat on the Supreme Court . . . "

Clinton suggests US could join International Criminal Court

Posted on August 06, 2009
AP: "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it is a 'great regret' that the United States is not a member of the International Criminal Court."

ACLU receives large gift to help end Florida?s ?gay adoption? ban

Posted on August 06, 2009
ProudParenting.com: "The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida and its LGBT Advocacy Project has been awarded a $150,000 grant from The Tides Foundation's State Equality Fund to defend its recent trial court victory ending Florida's ban on adoption by gays and lesbians, and to educate Floridians about the case...

Texas: ACLU expresses concern over creationism in schools

Posted on August 06, 2009
The Daily Texan: "'On every single front, Texas is the least progressive state I?ve ever lived in and the biggest issue I see here is this insidious business of slipping it into the schools where we have vulnerable minds and peer pressure to boot,' said ACLU member Russell La Claire...

Haskell officials to ask Supreme Court to hear Ten Commandments case

Posted on August 06, 2009
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NH?s Gregg says he?ll vote to confirm Sotomayor

Posted on August 06, 2009
AP: "Republican Sen. Judd Gregg says he'll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with most of his fellow Republicans."

Nigeria: Teenage girl forced to watch pastor?s brutal murder by Islamists

Posted on August 06, 2009
Christian Today: "On 26 July, the girl identified by CSW only as Mary was in church with her pastor, his brother and an older Christian woman when a group of fifty militants broke in. She and her pastor hid as the group killed the pastor?s brother and dragged the older woman out of the room...

APA Sexual Orientation and Therapy Task Force Report: An Analysis

Posted on August 06, 2009
Warren Throckmorton writes at the Christian Post: "Generally, I believe the paper to be a high quality report of the evidence regarding sexual orientation and therapy."

Assemblies of God Elects First Female Leader

Posted on August 06, 2009
Christian Post: "The Assemblies of God elected its first woman to the Executive Presbytery during its biennial meeting on Wednesday."

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

Posted on August 06, 2009
Eugene Volokh writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: "So having yet again heard about how the U.S. is the only U.N. member, other than Somalia, not to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, I decided to read the thing. This led me to be tentatively pleased that we haven't signed it ...

Unconstitutional for South Carolina To Ban Alcohol Possession and Consumption by 18-to-20-Year-Olds

Posted on August 06, 2009
Eugene Volokh writes at The Volokh Conspiracy: "Two magistrate judges have indeed so held, and the logic strikes me as quite right, given the text of the provision and the reasoning in the handgun possession decision (State v. Bolin)."

Prayers at Chesapeake council meetings stir debate

Posted on August 06, 2009
Virginian-Pilot: "First, a Wisconsin group billing itself as North America's largest association of atheists wrote a letter to the city saying the prayers were illegal. Then on Tuesday, an advocacy group called The Family Foundation of Virginia defended Chesapeake...

Vote on Sotomayor expected at 3 p.m. today

Posted on August 06, 2009
"Sixty-four Senators have expressed commitment to vote for Judge Sotomayor and about 31 have expressed opposition, with five uncommitted. Below, I?ve listed the Senate vote on each of the currently seated Supreme Court Justices . . . "

GOP Sen. Voinovich to support Sotomayor for court

Posted on August 06, 2009
AP: "Republican Sen. George Voinovich says he'll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor when the Senate votes on her nomination to be the first Hispanic justice."

Federal Stimulus Funds Will be Used to Train ?Domestic Violence? Counselors for Cohabitating Homosexuals

Posted on August 06, 2009
CNSNews: "Funds from the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will be used in Alexandria, Va., where same-sex marriage is not legal, to 'train staff who work with sexual/domestic violence victims who identify themselves as member of the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender community...

US food stamp list tops 34 million for first time

Posted on August 06, 2009
Forbes: "For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries, government figures said on Thursday, a sign of the longest and one of the deepest recessions since the Great Depression."

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