Religion & Law

Florida: Trafficking victim forced to have sex at Pinellas club

Posted on May 11, 2009
AP: "At least one of the victims in a human-trafficking case investigated by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office was brought to an exotic dance club in Pinellas County, where she was forced to dance and perform sex acts, according to jail records."

N.H. ?gay marriage? bill not on gov?s desk

Posted on May 11, 2009
Smith theorizes that the bill is being delayed because Lynch himself has asked for more time to consider the issue . . .

US to borrow 46 cents for every dollar spent

Posted on May 11, 2009
AP: "The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates."

O?Connor on Judicial Elections: ?They?re Awful. I Hate Them?

Posted on May 11, 2009
ABA Journal: "Warnings that judicial elections increasingly threaten to undermine the independence of courts were bookends for Friday's ABA summit on how to preserve fair and impartial state courts."

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Nevada: Child porn bill debated

Posted on May 11, 2009
AP: "A proposal allowing civil lawsuits when victims of childhood sex crimes learn there's pornography depicting the crimes against them was challenged Friday by a critic who said that as written it offers a 'field day' to defense lawyers."

74: Catholic School Association Downplays USCCB Policy Role while More Bishops Decry ND Scandal

Posted on May 11, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "The president of the Association of Catholic Colleges & Universities (ACCU) has sided with the University of Notre Dame's president in stating that the U.S. bishops' policy is unclear on whether Catholic institutions are forbidden from honoring non-Catholic pro-abortion politicians...

ACLU: ?Alabama School District Agrees To End Illegal Sex Segregation?

Posted on May 11, 2009
ACLU press release: "The St. Clair County School System in Alabama has agreed to stop sex segregation in public schools after being notified by the American Civil Liberties Union that sex segregated programs are illegal and discriminatory."

ACLU: ?President?s Budget Defunds Failed Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs?

Posted on May 11, 2009
ACLU press release: "The Obama administration, in its 2010 budget released yesterday, took the positive step of defunding failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs which, for more than a decade, have censored young people?s access to basic, medically accurate and age-appropriate information...

ADF attorneys ask for free speech to be restored at U.S. national parks

Posted on May 11, 2009
?It?s unbelievable that the National Park Service would deny freedom of speech at our national parks, especially at the foot of Mt. Rushmore, where four men who represent America?s freedoms are immortalized."

God and Obama at Notre Dame: The clash between Catholic culture and Catholic colleges.

Posted on May 11, 2009
"They all look at the Notre Dame protests and think it must be about politics . . . Politics has very little to do with the mess. This isn't a fight about who won the last presidential election . . . It's a fight about culture . . . "

Oregon: Keizer mayor declines to cancel prayer breakfast

Posted on May 08, 2009
Jillian Daley reports in the Statesman Journal: "The Keizer Mayor's Prayer Breakfast went on as usual Thursday morning despite a letter of protest."

Scotland: ?Gay rights campaigner led a double life as leader of paedophile ring?

Posted on May 08, 2009
Warning: graphic discussion Daily Mail: "A paedophile ring has been smashed after eight men were found guilty of a horrifying catalogue of more than 50 child pornography and abuse charges"

Florida: ACLU seeks contempt charges on school employee

Posted on May 08, 2009
Santa Rosa Press-Gazette: "On information and belief, no one either interceded and stopped Ms. Winkler or her husband or, if this was not possible, explained immediately after the prayer to the audience (and to Ms. Winkler) that the prayer at the school event was inappropriate, violated the Court?s order, and will not be accepted within the School District...

NC: Senate Passes ?Bullying Bill?

Posted on May 08, 2009
NC Family Policy Council: "The North Carolina Senate gave final approval Wednesday afternoon to a bill that would grant special legal protections based on 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' for the first time in North Carolina history. SB 526?School Violence Prevention Act, passed by a vote of 26?22 after no senators stood to debate the bill during Wednesday?s third reading...

Arizona: State debates religious expression in schools

Posted on May 08, 2009
AZ Republic: "HB 2357 would bar all forms of religious discrimination in schools and would specify that students are allowed to wear religious jewelry and apparel on campus. Crandall said spelling out these rights clearly would help prevent misunderstandings that can wind up in court...

Three Indian states report anti-Christian violence

Posted on May 08, 2009
ChristianToday: "Two incidents of assault and one incident of vandalism against Christians and their properties were reported by three Indian states this week."

New Hampshire Gov. to Decide on Marriage Bill By Tuesday

Posted on May 08, 2009
Christian Post: "New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch has until next Tuesday to decide the fate of a gay marriage bill that was sent to his desk after final legislature approval was given on Wednesday."

New Hampshire: ?McCormack: Veto gay marriage legislation?

Posted on May 08, 2009
UnionLeader.com: "In a statement released yesterday, Bishop John B. McCormack urged Lynch to veto legislation that would extend the state's marriage laws to include same-sex couples . . . We further believe that trying to redefine marriage on the run, with the slimmest of legislative margins and without a robust investigation into all possible conflicts between same sex marriage legislation and religious liberties is contrary to the spirit of New Hampshire...

Rome: Archbishop says Obama advancing anti-life agenda, Catholic universities should not give him a platform

Posted on May 08, 2009
AP: Archbishop Raymond Burke, the first American to lead the Vatican supreme court, said Catholic universities should not give a platform, let alone honor, "those who teach and act publicly against the moral law."

?European Fascist Movements are Led by Homosexuals According to Gay Journalist?

Posted on May 08, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Johann Hari, a reporter for the Independent newspaper points out in a recent article for the ultra-leftist Huffington Post that, despite their official condemnation of sodomy, the leadership of European fascist movements is dominated by homosexuals...

Archbishop Wuerl Refuses to Deny Communion to Pro-Abortion Speaker Pelosi

Posted on May 08, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "In an interview published in a Politics Daily article today, Bishop Wuerl said he disagreed with refraining from giving communion to manifestly pro-abortion politicians, which was equated with 'Communion wielded as a weapon.' 'That's the new way now to make your point,' said Wuerl...

European Parliament Refuses to Denounce Pope?s Anti-Condom Remarks: Vote is 253-199, 61 abstentions

Posted on May 08, 2009
The measure was intended to "energetically condemn the recent declarations of the Pope, who has prohibited the use of condoms and has warned that condoms can even bring about a greater risk of illness."

President Obama?s New Budget Calls for Tax-Funded Abortions in Nation?s Capital

Posted on May 08, 2009
LifeNews: "The budget Obama submitted to Congress urges the House and Senate to repeal a law sometimes called the Dornan amendment that has prevented tax-funded abortion in the District of Columbia for many years."

Barack Obama?s Federal Budget Eliminates Funding for Abstinence-Only Education

Posted on May 08, 2009
LifeNews: "Before he took over the White House, President Barack Obama made it clear he would cut abstinence funding. He has followed through as his new budget eliminates all federal funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with sexual education...

Reality of abortion offends police squad

Posted on May 08, 2009
WorldNetDaily: "'Americans should not imagine that this type of government speech control only occurs overseas,' Kiska noted. 'ADF fights these types of battles in the U.S. all the time. But if the Constitutional Court in the Slovak Republic rules this police intervention legal, it will be yet another ruling that activist judges could point to in the future as a sort of precedent that U...

Child porn websites on the decline

Posted on May 08, 2009
OneNewsNow: "'What we don't want to say is that it's safer with respect to child pornography and child sex abuse online because there are more people everyday looking for child pornography, looking to abuse kids,' [Pat Trueman] notes. 'So the market for that kind of material actually grows even though the number of websites declined...

Outrage over Bibles destroyed in Afghanistan

Posted on May 08, 2009
One News Now: "A Pentagon adviser is blasting what he calls an 'egregious' and 'politically correct' decision by the U.S. military to destroy Bibles sent to troops in Afghanistan."

Court: ADF to defend Prop. 8, federal DOMA

Posted on May 08, 2009
. . . " this lawsuit begs the court to nullify the voices of more than 7 million California voters, as well as put an end to the federal law on marriage. We are pleased to be able to represent ProtectMarriage.com"

White House Formalizes Supreme Court Short List

Posted on May 08, 2009
Jan Crawford Greensburg writes at ABC: "The White House has formalized its short list of Supreme Court contenders and asked six prospects to provide personal background information, with an intensive vetting process well underway, according to sources close to the process...

Oklahoma Legislature Authorizes 10 Commandments At Capitol

Posted on May 08, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: "AP reported yesterday that the Oklahoma House of Representatives, by a vote of 83-2, has passed HB 1330, the Ten Commandments Monument Display Act [full text, Word doc]." The law provides: "In the event that the legality or constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument is challenged in a court of law, the Oklahoma Attorney General or Liberty Legal Institute is hereby authorized to prepare and present a legal defense of the monument...

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