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Catholic Answers sues IRS, alleging ?intimidation? on political issues

Posted on June 08, 2009
Catholic News Agency: "The apologetics organization Catholic Answers has filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service claiming the federal tax collection agency has 'intimidated' churches and non-profit groups into silence on politically controversial moral issues...

?Ads pulled over radio hosts? transgender remarks?

Posted on June 08, 2009
AP: "Bank of America, Verizon, Chipotle and other companies have pulled advertising from a Sacramento radio station after talk show hosts referred to transgender people as 'freaks' with mental disorders."

?Gay rights activist calls for march on Washington?

Posted on June 08, 2009
AP: "An activist who worked alongside slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk announced plans Sunday for a march on Washington this fall to demand that Congress establish equality and marriage rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community...

China requires PCs to come with anti-porn software

Posted on June 08, 2009
AP: "China is requiring personal computers sold domestically to carry software that blocks online pornography and other Web sites - potentially giving the government new control over the Internet with a tool the developer said Monday will give parents more oversight...

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Gallup: ?Conservatives Shift in Favor of Openly Gay Service Members?

Posted on June 08, 2009
Gallup: "Americans are six percentage points more likely than they were four years ago to favor allowing openly gay men and lesbian women to serve in the military, 69% to 63% . . . "

Court steers clear of Ariz. ski resort dispute

Posted on June 08, 2009
AP: "The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from Indian tribes that wanted to block expansion of a ski resort on a mountain they consider sacred."

U.S. Supreme Court won?t hear case of man with porn on computer

Posted on June 08, 2009
AP: "The Supreme Court won't stop Pennsylvania officials from prosecuting a man whose computer was found to contain child pornography while it was at Circuit City being upgraded."

UCLA allows student to thank Jesus at graduation

Posted on June 08, 2009
Katherine T. Phan reports in The Christian Post: "The University of California in Los Angeles has responded to media pressure and agreed to allow a graduating student to thank Jesus in her personal statement."

In Vietnam, teenage daughters sold into sex slavery

Posted on June 08, 2009
Mercury News: "The offer came to families on the edge of desperation, living and working around the clock on garbage dumps whose sickening stench seeps into their clothes . . . More than 600,000 young women are trafficked each year around the world, according to a U...

Czech church tries again for Prague cathedral taken by communists

Posted on June 08, 2009
Christian Telegraph: "The Czech Republic's Roman Catholic Church has appealed to the Constitutional Court against a ruling giving the state ownership of Prague's 14th century St Vitus Cathedral, reports Ecumenical News International

ACLU Releases Report On Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor

Posted on June 08, 2009
ACLU: The full text of the report is online at: www.aclu.org/scotus/2008term/39769pub20090608.html Visit Site »

Senate panel OKs Obama 7th Circuit nominee Hamilton

Posted on June 08, 2009
Baptist Press: "The committee voted 12-7 for David Hamilton's nomination to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, with all Democratic members in favor and all Republican members in opposition . . . Hamilton . . . struck down in 2002 an Indiana law that required a woman to receive in-person counseling 18 hours before undergoing an abortion ...

Evangelical Group Banned From Tulsa Housing Projects, Chapter Leader Says

Posted on June 08, 2009
Fox News: "A Christian evangelical group that works to improve the lives of underprivileged children says it has been prohibited from conducting Bible study classes in public housing projects in Tulsa, Okla., potentially violating a Supreme Court ruling that upheld religious groups' right to the use of public institutions...

GOP, 2 Dems flip power balance in NY senate

Posted on June 08, 2009
"The coup throws into doubt the movement to legalize same-sex marriage, one of the major policy issues still in the balance for the last two weeks of the regular session."

The Revealing ?Abortion Rights? Brief in Sotomayor?s Past

Posted on June 08, 2009
Clarke Forsythe: "If Judge Sotomayor holds the position that she signed onto via the PRDF?s brief, then, if an abortion-related case comes up on the docket, it will lead to her reading the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into the Constitution by judicial interpretation...

Antiabortion efforts move to the state level

Posted on June 08, 2009
Peter Slevin reports in the Washington Post: "Recognizing that strong Democratic majorities and the election of Barack Obama as president make it increasingly unlikely that federal laws will be tightened or Roe v. Wade overturned, opponents are pressing legislators to make abortion more difficult to obtain and, they hope, harder to accept...

ADF: U.S. Supreme Court should stop ACLU?s attacks on veterans? memorials

Posted on June 08, 2009
. . . the feelings of a single ?offended? person or honoring the memory of thousands of American heroes in a way that has been considered constitutional throughout our nation?s history? . . .

?Tennessee Schools End Censorship Of Gay Educational Web Sites After ACLU Lawsuit?

Posted on June 08, 2009
ACLU: "Dozens of Tennessee schools have restored access to online information about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, just over two weeks after the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against two Tennessee school districts for unconstitutionally blocking student access to such sites...

GOP: American tradition of impartial courts ?under attack?

Posted on June 08, 2009
One News Now: "The Alabama senator leading the GOP's vetting of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said the American tradition of impartial courts is 'under attack' and the pivotal question in her nomination should be whether she allows personal views to color her decisions as a judge...

ACLU Seeks to Tear Down Another War Memorial Cross; TMLC Files US Supreme Court Brief in Opposition

Posted on June 08, 2009
Thomas More Law Center: "The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, announced today that it has filed a friend of the court brief opposing the ACLU?s campaign to tear down another war memorial cross. At issue is a small cross originally erected on Sunrise Rock in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in memory of the dead of all wars...

UK: Boys as young as 12 to get credit card for condoms

Posted on June 08, 2009
Times Online: "BOYS as young as 12 are to be issued with condom 'credit cards' allowing them to pick up free contraception at football grounds, barber?s shops and scout huts."

Up to 4000 Conservatives to Descend Upon Amsterdam for World Congress of Families in August

Posted on June 08, 2009
LifeSiteNews: Up to 4,000 social conservatives are expected to descend upon liberal Amsterdam, Netherlands, on August 10-12 for the biennial World Congress of Families, a meeting that brings together scholars, academics, policy makers, elected officials, and activists for four days of speeches, lectures, and networking.

New York: Stand for Marriage Rally

Posted on June 08, 2009
On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, a broad coalition of concerned citizens from all across New York State will descend upon the East Steps of the Capitol to participate in a ?Stand for Marriage? rally organized by New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.

NY: Revolt Imperils Democratic Control of Senate; Marriage a factor?

Posted on June 08, 2009
NY Times: "A Caucous leadership fight erupted on the floor of the Senate around 3 p.m., with two Democrats, Pedro Espada Jr. of the Bronx and Hiram Monserrate of Queens, joining the 30 Senate Republicans in a motion that would displace Democrats as the party in control ...

Three Senators Now Say Sotomayor Will Uphold Roe v. Wade

Posted on June 08, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "As Sonia Sotomayor finishes making the rounds on Capitol Hill, meeting individually with lawmakers, two more US senators insist the Supreme Court nominee will continue to uphold legal abortion by maintaining Roe v. Wade as the law of the land...

Judicial ?Activism? Isn?t the Issue: Liberals and conservatives both show too much deference to Congress.

Posted on June 08, 2009
Jeff Rowes writes at the Wall Street Journal: "The practical result is that judges of both persuasions almost never enforce any constitutional limit on the power of government to regulate property and the economy. Given that the vast majority of law concerns these two areas, the real crisis in constitutional law is not judicial "activism" but judicial passivism...

Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling on Judicial Recusal

Posted on June 08, 2009
Tony Mauro writes at the National Law Journal: "In a landmark ruling that could affect state judicial elections nationwide, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that due process requires a state judge to recuse when a party in a case before him or her has had a 'significant or disproportionate' influence on placing the judge on the court through a large campaign donation...

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court - Sonia Sotomayor - Questionnaire

Posted on June 08, 2009
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee: "Judicial nominees, including nominees to vacancies on the United States Supreme Court, are required to complete a bipartisan questionnaire compiled by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Judge Sonia Sotomayor's questionnaire and related attachment available below ...

Justices Thomas, Scalia Report Big Book Earnings for 2008

Posted on June 08, 2009
Law.com (AP): "Justice Clarence Thomas took in more than $300,000 in royalties for his autobiography last year, far more than he earned as a member of the Supreme Court. Justice Antonin Scalia received nearly $100,000 for his new book."

Is Sotomayor a Judicial Activist? New Studies May Shed Some Light

Posted on June 08, 2009
The National Law Journal: "Is Judge Sonia Sotomayor a judicial activist? Just hours after Sotomayor's selection to fill the upcoming vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, special interest groups began the hunt for the dreaded activist in her, sifting decisions and speeches for evidence...

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