Religion & Law

Planned Parenthood: ?The profitable non-profit?

Posted on June 22, 2009
David N. Bass reports in The American Spectator: "The federal government has morphed into Planned Parenthood's sugar daddy, and the co-dependency is only going to get worse in the age of Obama. Fully one-third of the organization's revenue last year came from the government, compared with less than one-fourth from private contributions...

Ken Connor: Reviving States? Rights

Posted on June 22, 2009
Ken Connor writes at CNSNews: "The states must not shy away from their constitutional responsibility to defend themselves from this federal onslaught. Moreover, individual citizens have a role to play in educating themselves about the republican model of our federalist system so that they can participate in a meaningful public discussion about the proper relationship between the central government and the states...

Robert C. Post named Yale Law?s new dean

Posted on June 22, 2009
Ashby Jones reports at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog: Post, the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale, in an announcement made by Yale?s president, Richard Levin, was named the new law dean. According to his bio, Post (Harvard, Yale Law, Harvard Ph...

Connecticut church closing marks a trend

Posted on June 22, 2009
Tracey O'Shaughnessy reports in the Republican American: "It's easy to look at the shuttering of Christ Church in Watertown as a victory for traditionalist Episcopalians, who left the church to protest its embrace of gay clergy."

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Spiritual Profile of Homosexual Adults Provides Surprising Insights

Posted on June 22, 2009
Barna Group: "The gay and lesbian population, which constitutes about 3% of adults, has garnered national attention in the past several years thanks to issues like gay marriage, gay adoption, and other gay rights conflicts. In the wake of those controversies and the spotlight aimed at gays, Americans have developed numerous assumptions about the lives of the homosexual population...

AU touts use of financial threats to cow school districts

Posted on June 22, 2009
The Americans United for Separation of Church and State Blog carries this post, Math Lesson: Scofflaw Florida School District?s Legal Expenses Add Up, highlighting how it uses financial threats to cow school districts into submission to its radical left wing agenda.

How Did You Get Hooked On Porn in the First Place?

Posted on June 22, 2009
Mark Castleman writes at Candeo: Pornography addiction creates a great deal of shame, despair and self-loathing. After repeatedly trying and failing to implement the common advice ?Why don?t you just stop looking at it,? many caught in the pornography trap feel hopeless??I guess I?m just basically evil-minded and weak, a pervert and a freak...

Supreme Court rules parents can seek reimbursement for private ed. under IDEA

Posted on June 22, 2009
SCOTUS: "Today, the Supreme Court held that parents of disabled children can seek reimbursement for private education expenses regardless whether their child had previously received special-education services from a public school. By a vote of six to three, the Court held that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) authorizes reimbursement whenever a public school fails to make a free appropriate public education (FAPE) available to a disabled child...

Catholic-Islamic talks: Muslims unable to accept freedom of conscience

Posted on June 22, 2009
AsiaNews.it: Card Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, said an ?atmosphere of great trust? is emerging in the ongoing Christian-Muslim dialogue despite the fact that in some countries the right to change religion is not guaranteed and that in Saudi Arabia there is no opening in relation to the right to have a place of worship in that country ...

Poland Follows Lithuania in Considering Law to Protect Youth from Promotion of Homosexuality

Posted on June 22, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Poland may soon consider passing a new law, similar to the one passed this week in neighboring Lithuania, that bans the media and schools from promoting adverse behaviors to the development of young people, including violence, suicide, and homosexuality...

Alberta Finance Minister Praised, Vilified for Saying Stay-at-Home Parent Important for Raising Children

Posted on June 22, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "The Alberta Finance Minister, Iris Evans, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, has come under fire from the leader of the Liberal government after telling the Economic Club of Canada on Wednesday morning that having one parent stay at home is important for raising children well...

Two Released after Being Arrested in Vancouver for Protesting Bubble-Zone Law Released

Posted on June 22, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "David Spratt and Sissy von Dehn were arrested while protesting the bubble zone legislation that prevents pro-life counselling or protesting within 50 meters of an abortion facility."

Undercover Videos Prompt Tennessee Lawmakers to End Preferential Treatment for Planned Parenthood

Posted on June 22, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Tennessee legislators passed a law Thursday that threatens to strip Planned Parenthood of over $1 million in federal grant funding. Under the new statute, local community health clinics will be given priority for Title X family planning funds instead of Planned Parenthood...

Senate Republicans: Little Reason to Oppose Sotomayor, Pro-Life Groups Disagree

Posted on June 22, 2009
LifeNews: "In new interviews, leading Senate Republicans say they are seeing little reason for an all-out campaign against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. However, top pro-life advocates say more evidence is cropping out showing how Sotomayor will be a solid abortion advocate on the high court...

Founding Fathers: Our revolutionary leaders wanted the best from their children.

Posted on June 22, 2009
"Judged by today's psychological standards, these 18th century fathers sound harsh and unfeeling. Yet to see the Founding Fathers as flesh-and-blood dads, to glimpse their struggles to rear their children at a time of grave uncertainty and peril, is to appreciate their service and sacrifice anew...

Get Back in the Closet

Posted on June 22, 2009
Mike Adams writes at Townhall: Dear UNC-Wilmington Students: "It?s getting close to time to start another semester. That means that it?s time to lay down the rules for all of my classes. I?m going to continue to use all the rules I?ve used before, which can be found in my syllabus...

LI Catholics side with Murphy on same-sex marriage

Posted on June 22, 2009
"No state can legitimately infringe on a religious institution?s right to live by their beliefs. That, however, is not the heart of the wrongheadedness of Mr. Suozzi?s argument . . . "

Labor unions, Catholic hospitals to end conflict

Posted on June 22, 2009
AP: "Labor unions and Catholic leaders have reached an agreement designed to end years of bitter hostilities that often surrounded union efforts to organize workers at Catholic hospitals."

Sen. Dodd Endorses Marriage Redefinition

Posted on June 22, 2009
NY Times Blog: "Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, has changed his position on gay marriage, announcing over the weekend that he now supports it."

Court Takes Commerce Clause Case

Posted on June 22, 2009
Jonathan Adler reports at the Volokh Conspiracy: that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could test the vitality of federalism.

DC Voters: Let Us Vote on Marriage

Posted on June 22, 2009
Heritage Foundation Blog: According to Brian Raum, Senior Legal Counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, ?Marriage didn?t violate the Human Rights Act when the HRA passed 32 years ago, and it doesn?t now. That is simply a political argument meant to prevent the people from voting...

Court: Calif. library can?t ban meetings it labels ?religious services?

Posted on June 22, 2009
"A federal judge ruled Friday that Contra Costa County officials can no longer prohibit a Christian ministry from accessing Antioch Branch Library public meeting rooms just because government employees consider its scheduled activities to be 'religious services...

CLS, ADF appeal lawsuit against U. of Mont. School of Law

Posted on June 19, 2009
ADFMedia.org: "The law school requires all students to pay fees to support student groups but then allows distribution of those fees to be skewed toward groups with viewpoints favored by the Student Bar Association."

Home schooling trumps full-day kindergarten

Posted on June 19, 2009
Amira Elghawaby reports in The Globe and Mail: "'We have been taught (that is, schooled) in this country to think ?success' is synonymous with, or at least dependent upon, ?schooling,' but historically that isn't true in either an intellectual or a financial sense,' Mr...

KY: Senate president declares slots bill dead

Posted on June 19, 2009
Gregory A. Hall reports in the Courier-Journal: "Senate President David Williams declared the video slots bill dead Thursday ? even as it moved toward a vote by the full House ? and said the Senate instead would consider his alternative plan to help the horse industry without expanded gambling...

Louisiana: Senate panel rejects bill attacking sale of pornography to minors

Posted on June 19, 2009
Ed Anderson reports in the Times-Picayune: "The Committee on Commerce voted 12-2 to defer action on Senate Bill 152 by Sen. A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell, killing it for the session unless he can find a way to bring it back as an amendment to another measure...

Pro-lifers largely prevail at UN Human Rights Council meeting

Posted on June 19, 2009
Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM): "The battle over the final text concerned two points: how broad a reference to "sexual and reproductive health" would the document contain, and whether member states would retain oversight over a report on maternal mortality from the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) called for by the resolution...

US to pay total of $3 Billion to UN in 2009?

Posted on June 19, 2009
USA Today: "If the war-funding bill becomes law, the United States will have paid slightly more than $3 billion in fiscal year 2009 for a host of U.N. activities."

California: Teachers union loses case on campaign flyers

Posted on June 19, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle: "A school district can prevent a teachers union from putting campaign pamphlets for political candidates in school mailboxes, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case from San Leandro." Teachers Association vs. Governing Board of the San Leandro Unified School District, S156961

?God is Great? echoes throughout Tehran

Posted on June 19, 2009
AP: "Tehran residents are climbing to their roofs and crying 'God is Great!' in open defiance of Iran's supreme leader."

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