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MA: SJC Justice Cowin announces retirement

Posted on January 31, 2011
Boston Globe: "Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Judith Cowin announced Monday that she will retire in April, giving Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick another opportunity to continue reshaping the state's highest court."

Hawaii: Civil Union Bill Passes Full Senate by Vote of 19-6

Posted on January 31, 2011
The Hawaii Reporter: "The Hawaii State Senate passed SB 232 today by a vote of 19 to 6. The bill, which establishes civil unions in Hawaii, would grant unmarried couples more rights and benefits including tax benefits."

Bill Banning Tax-Funded Abortions Attacked Over Rape Issues

Posted on January 31, 2011
LifeNews: "Leading pro-abortion activists are using the issue of rape as a method of attacking a new bill in Congress that would ban taxpayer funding of abortions across all governmental programs and agencies."

Wyoming House committee strikes down civil union bill

Posted on January 31, 2011
Star-Tribune: "Legislation that would have made Wyoming the third state to recognize civil unions narrowly failed in the House Judiciary Committee on Friday."

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FL: ?Atheist group to Williams: Move polling place?

Posted on January 31, 2011
Suwanne Democrat: "A Lake City-based atheist group has asked Suwannee County Supervisor of Elections Glenda Williams not to locate polling places within area churches."

TX: Abortion legislation a high priority for Perry

Posted on January 31, 2011
KHOU.com: "The bill would require a doctor to perform an ultrasound on a pregnant woman and display the images where she can see them shortly before an abortion is done. In addition, doctors would be required to amplify the fetal heartbeats so that the pregnant woman can hear them...

Planned Parenthood Funding A Defacto Abortion Tax on America

Posted on January 31, 2011
Warner Todd Huston writes at Breitbart Big Government: "In 2008 alone, Planned Parenthood received nearly $350 million in federal funding. By Planned Parenthood?s own reckoning, this funding went to eliminate babies for more than 324,000 women that year...

Superbowl a magnet for under-age sex trade

Posted on January 31, 2011
Reuters: "Pimps will traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for Sunday's Super Bowl, hoping to do business with men arriving for the big game with money to burn, child rights advocates said."

David French: Tiger Moms Versus Lady Gaga

Posted on January 31, 2011
David French writes at National Review Phi Beta Cons Blog: "But I wonder if the distinction goes a bit deeper, with the secular and soft-religious Western mindset falsely presuming their child?s virtue ? believing that their 'good' kids will excel only if their goodness is recognized and exalted...

French council says no to ?gay marriage?

Posted on January 31, 2011
CNA: "The French Constitutional Council has ruled that prohibiting same-sex 'marriage' in the country does not violate the Constitution."

AP: ?Lesbian students enter to cheers at Minn. school?

Posted on January 31, 2011
AP: "Two lesbian high school students who fought for the right to walk together as part of a royalty court made their entrances Monday to the cheers of hundreds of classmates."

Church foreclosures a growing problem?

Posted on January 31, 2011
One News Now: "Since 2008, some 200 U.S. churches have faced foreclosure. But according to a survey from the CoStar Group, the properties of only eight churches were seized in the two previous years."

Judge Declares Pro-Abortion ObamaCare Unconstitutional

Posted on January 31, 2011
"In the most high-profile challenge to the reform law yet, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the so-called individual mandate exceeds congressional power. Further, he said the whole law cannot stand because the law depends on the mandate to work...

Iowa: Branstad won?t ask Supreme Court nominees about same-sex marriage

Posted on January 31, 2011
"Gov. Terry Branstad is planning an hour-long interview with each of the nine nominees for three seats on the Iowa Supreme Court, but said he doesn't intend to ask them about the case that created those vacancies."

Pentagon Briefing on DADT repeal implementation at 2:15 p.m

Posted on January 28, 2011
Department of Defense: "Clifford Stanley, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, and Gen. James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will speak with Pentagon reporters about the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal implementation effort...

9th Circuit reinstates city?s adult bookstore ordinance

Posted on January 28, 2011
Westlaw News and Insights: "The 9th Circuit has reversed a lower court's ruling that a Los Angeles ordinance prohibiting combined adult retail and arcade establishments violated the First Amendment. The court of appeals said the bookstore and arcade that brought the suit did not offer enough evidence to show that the city?s ordinance was unconstitutional...

Obama says he will not refight battle over healthcare law

Posted on January 28, 2011
Reuters: "President Barack Obama said on Friday his healthcare overhaul is an important part of efforts to cut the budget deficit and insisted he will not 'refight' the battle to pass the law."

Student sues University of Idaho over firearms ban

Posted on January 28, 2011
Daily Caller: "A University of Idaho law student is suing the school over its firearms ban, saying the policy violates his Second Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Second-year law student Aaron Tribble, 36, filed a civil suit last Tuesday, challenging a policy that doesn?t allow him to store a registered handgun in his university-owned apartment...

Bill aimed at protecting South Carolina from foreign law introduced

Posted on January 28, 2011
Human Events: "A legislative initiative aimed at preventing 'a court or other enforcement authority' from enforcing foreign law in the Palmetto State was introduced today in both the S.C. House and Senate by Rep. Wendy Nanney (who drafted the bill) and Sen...

Islamists march, police teargas Tunis protesters

Posted on January 28, 2011
Reuters: "Islamists marched through central Tunis on Friday, demanding religious freedom, while police fired teargas at anti-government protesters who have camped out around the prime minister's "

TN: Parents, community leaders against Planned Parenthood in Knox County Schools

Posted on January 28, 2011
Volunteer TV: "Dozens of parents, community leaders and even students met at the Sacred Heart Cathedral Thursday night with one ultimate goal. 'We would like to see Planned Parenthood removed from the guest speaker list in Knox County Schools,' said Lisa Morris, a parent and spokesperson for the Prolife Coalition...

UK: IVF and abortion claim similar number of women?s lives a year

Posted on January 28, 2011
Daily Telegraph: "While seven women died as a direct result of IVF between 2003 and 2005, two died as a result of having abortions in 2007, note the obstetricians, in an [article published in the British Medical Journal]."

UK abortion provider asks court to allow abortion drugs to be taken at home

Posted on January 28, 2011
Bloomberg: "The British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the U.K.?s largest abortion provider, asked a London judge to modify the interpretation of a 1967 law to allow women to take drugs to terminate pregnancies at home."

Indian court: Gov?t subsidy for Haj, other pilgrimages not unconstitutional

Posted on January 28, 2011
DNA India: "Government subsidy to Muslims for Haj pilgrimage or similar benefits for other religions is not violative of the Constitution, the Supreme Court today ruled. The apex court rejected the argument that grant of subsidy for Muslims undertaking the Haj amounts to violation of Articles 14 (equality), 15 b (non-discrimination) and 27 (no public taxing for promoting any religion)...

UK: More charities, parents, religious groups applying to open ?free schools?

Posted on January 28, 2011
Telegraph: "Charities, parents and religious groups are among those vying to run their own independent state schools free of local council interference. At least 35 could open as soon as this September after being allowed to progress to an advanced planning stage...

?SPLC and rights groups urge MN school district to restore LGBT students? rights?

Posted on January 28, 2011
"In a�letter sent this morning, the Southern Poverty Law Center, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Faegre & Benson, LLP are urging Minnesota?s Anoka-Hennepin School District and Champlin Park High School (CPHS) to immediately restore the rights of two lesbian students, Desiree (?Dez?) Shelton and Sarah Lindstrom...

Hearing set on Maryland marriage bill

Posted on January 28, 2011
The Washington Post / Maryland Politics: "A Feb. 8 hearing has been set on one of the most high-profile issues before the Maryland General Assembly this year: [legalizing] marriage between same-sex couples."

Lee to join Hatch on Judiciary Committee

Posted on January 28, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune: "Freshman Sen. Mike Lee, who has clerked at all three levels of the federal judiciary, will join his senior colleague, Orrin Hatch, on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republican leaders waived a rule against two senators from the same state serving on the powerful panel to allow Lee to join Hatch on the committee...

UK MP: The sexualization of our children in the name of marketing need to be tackled

Posted on January 28, 2011
David Morris, MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, writing at ConservativeHome: "Perhaps the biggest question going forward will be how do we allow manufacturers to market their products? Clearly Government cannot legislate for a blanket ban on advertising; there has to be a balance...

France: Constitutional Court upholds marriage between a man and a woman

Posted on January 28, 2011
"The Constitutional Court in France has rejected a lesbian couple's bid to overturn the French ban on same-sex marriage. Judges ruled that marriage was legal only between a man and a woman."

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