Religion & Law

3 AGs to meet with Craigslist over sexual ads

Posted on May 04, 2009
Boston Globe (AP): "State attorneys general from Missouri, Illinois and Connecticut plan to begin negotiations with Craigslist to eliminate what they contend are advertisements for illegal sexual activities."

Arrested at Notre Dame; Statement by Randall A. Terry

Posted on May 04, 2009
Christian Newswire: "William Kee and I were arrested immediately. The others were given the chance to leave, and did so. I was taken alone to a cell on campus where I prayed the sorrowful mysteries. With each mystery, my fear for Notre Dame grew . . ...

NY Times: ?Marriage Bill Poses a Test of Loyalties: Church vs. State?

Posted on May 01, 2009
NY Times: ?'I don?t care what the politicians think,' Mr. Flake, a former Democratic congressman and one of the city?s most influential religious leaders, thundered last week during a Sunday service at the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Queens. 'Ain?t nothing perfect about laying down and signing a license with somebody who got the same body parts you got...

UK: ?New Tories make gay rights groups priority?

Posted on May 01, 2009
The Christian Institute: "Reaching out to homosexual groups will be one of David Cameron?s top five priorities in the coming months, it has been reported."

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FCC Announces May 7 Diversity Meeting - Behold a new ?Fairness? Doctrine

Posted on May 01, 2009
Newsbusters: "Behold one of the new 'Fairness' Doctrines - 'media diversity' - coming soon to a radio station near you. President Barack Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the names of the thirty-one members of their Advisory Committee On Diversity For Communications In The Digital Age ...

Judges? panel debates ?gay marriage? at Dartmouth

Posted on May 01, 2009
The Dartmouth: "Three current and former state supreme court justices explained their decisions in landmark cases on same-sex marriage at a panel discussion in Dartmouth Hall on Thursday. Judges from the supreme courts of Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts spoke to a group of about 50 students, faculty and community members...

WaPo, ABC poll: ?On Gay Marriage, A Near Even Split?

Posted on May 01, 2009
Washington Post: "Nearly half (49 percent) of all Americans in the new poll said they favor legal marriage for same-sex couples, an increase of 13 percentage points since June 2006. But opposition to gay marriage remains widespread, 46 percent said it should be illegal in the new poll, and most in that camp feel strongly about it (overall 39 percent are that opposed)...

Philadelphia to host ?national homosexual rights rally? on Sunday

Posted on May 01, 2009
Associated Press: "The event planned for Sunday is being billed as the first national demonstration since 2000 for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights and the first to be held outside Washington."

Support for legal abortion drops in U.S.

Posted on May 01, 2009
Catholic News Agency: "A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows a significant drop in Americans? support for legal abortion, with 44 percent now believing the killing procedure should be illegal in most or all cases and only 46 percent supporting it being legal...

PA: ?Adult social club? gets license approval

Posted on May 01, 2009
Erie Times-News: "The first adult-oriented business in Titusville is a step closer to opening after getting licensing approval from city officials this week."

Thoroughly Modern Marxism

Posted on May 01, 2009
Taki's Magazine: "Long, long before the TEA party protestors and the Texas governor were outraged over Barack Obama?s ?socialist? tendencies, America had already implemented no less than five of the ten necessary components of a worker?s social order outlined by Marx and Engels in The Manifesto: the progressive income tax, centralization of credit in the banks of the state (Federal Reserve System), agricultural policy, and compulsory public education...

Anti-Spanking Bill Being Considered By Canadian Senate

Posted on May 01, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "When Liberal Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette's anti-spanking Bill S-209 died on the order paper last Fall due to the federal election, she vowed to continue to reintroduce it until it becomes law. Accordingly, the bill was reintroduced in the Canadian Senate early this year and has already passed First Reading...

Roger Kiska on Reality Check Radio: The homeschooling battle in Germany

Posted on May 01, 2009
ADF attorney Roger Kiska appeared on Reality Check Radio with Mike and Claire Monokian to discuss a pending case and the status of homeschooling in Germany. The mp3 runs just over 11 minutes.

Alberta Government Refuses HRC Reform, Adds ?Sexual Orientation? to Anti-Discrimination Law

Posted on May 01, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "The Alberta Government has caved in to the homosexual agenda and included 'sexual orientation' as a category of prohibited discrimination in its bill to amend the human rights act . . . Alberta has had de facto 'gay rights' protection since a 1998 Supreme Court ruling in the Vriend v...

Brazilian President Will Seek to ?Criminalize Words and Acts Offensive to Homosexuality?

Posted on May 01, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Brazilian President Luiz Lula is promising homosexual leaders that he will continue to seek to criminalize speech that is critical of homosexuality. In a written address delivered to the Third Congress of the Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transsexuals (ABGLT), Lula denounced groups, most of them Christian, who have objected to plans to outlaw such speech, calling them 'hypocrites...

The crusade against population

Posted on May 01, 2009
The Future of Freedom Foundation: "Humanity has recovered from population disasters in the past, such as the Black Death, but that didn?t distort the balance of the population between old and young. Nor was it coupled with the nasty intergenerational politics of the modern welfare state...

Sex for sale: Pornography and sexual addictions

Posted on May 01, 2009
KAUZ: "Every 39 minutes a pornographic video is being filmed, and there's no evidence the adult entertainment industry is going anywhere but up anytime soon."

France to Recognise Foreign Same-Sex Civil Unions and Partnerships

Posted on May 01, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "The French National Assembly has approved a measure in which civil unions or legal partnerships contracted in other countries will be recognised legally under the existing French legal definition of civil unions. The bill, which passed in the early hours of April 29, had already been accepted in the Senate and is expected to be endorsed by President Sarkozy...

Ultrasound bill gets early approval in Texas Senate

Posted on May 01, 2009
Associated Press: "The Texas Senate voted Thursday to require doctors to offer an ultrasound to women seeking abortions and to let them see the results if they want to."

?Right to Die? Could Force Montana Doctors to Assist in Suicide

Posted on May 01, 2009
Christian Medical Association and Christian Legal Society File Brief in Baxter v. Montana on Threat to Conscience Rights of Medical Professionals That Object to Assisting in Suicide

?Paterson challenges religious leaders on morality: Issue of gay marriage stirs intensified debate?

Posted on May 01, 2009
Buffalo News: "Religious leaders opposed to gay marriage in New York State would have a 'better moral standing' in the raging debate over the issue had they spoken out against discrimination and other abuses gays suffered in years past, Gov. David A. Paterson said Tuesday...

German family appeals for right to home educate

Posted on May 01, 2009
Christian Today: "'They did a lot of research on the governing law in Europe as well as international law coming from the United Nations documents, and they determined that since this was so contrary to their faith and that it would do damage to their ability as parents to raise their children according to that faith, that they would teach their child at home on this issue and only this issue...

Mass. lawmakers push for ?gay?-friendly school programs

Posted on May 01, 2009
One News Now: "Since $850,000 in school funding for 'gay'-friendly programs has been potentially cut from the 2010 Massachusetts budget, lawmakers -- at the behest of homosexual activists -- are looking for ways to get the funding reinstated."

?Scottish Church Faces Crisis Over Ordination of Gay Priests?

Posted on May 01, 2009
Virtue Online: "As you will no doubt already have seen in a spate of recent press articles, this year will see a highly charged General Assembly, with some of our brothers and sisters from Aberdeen Presbytery appearing at the Bar in their appeal against the Presbytery's decision to induct a man who has openly declared himself to be living in a homosexual partnership...

Iowa congressman fights to preserve traditional marriage

Posted on May 01, 2009
One News Now: [Cong. Steve King] "A UCLA study foundation predicted that, before we could amend our constitution, there would be as many as 58,000 same-sex marriages in Iowa," he explains. "And of that 55,000, 95 percent would be out-of-staters who will come into Iowa and then go back to their home states where many of them will start the litigation machinery to try to break down the constitutional protection of marriage...

Protesters shout obscenities at particants in London Reparative Thereapy conference

Posted on May 01, 2009
David W. Virtue writes at Virtue Online: I am huddled inside the doorway of Emmanuel Center, a church near Westminster Abbey, as hundreds of gay protesters yell and shout obscenities at a conference where speakers are offering healing for the homosexual through reparative therapy...

Pennsylvania: Contributions Ban Was Overly Broad, Court Says

Posted on May 01, 2009
NY Times (AP): "The legislature went too far in banning casino owners and executives from making any political campaign contribution, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in wiping out what had been promoted as a bulwark against the gambling industry?s influence...

?Gays can change. Reparative Therapy works.?

Posted on May 01, 2009
David W. Virtue interviews Dr. Joseph Nicolosi at Virtue Online: "I spoke with Dr. Nicolosi, a California therapist who employs seven therapists who deal exclusively in sexual addictions and same sex attractions. He heads an organization called NARTH - the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality...

Britain To Require Sex Ed In Schools, But With Modifications For Faith Schools

Posted on May 01, 2009
The Religion Clause Blog: "Pink News yesterday reported that a letter to Secretary Balls from the Pink Triangle Trust contends that if faith schools are allowed to tell students that under their religious views homosexual relationships are morally wrong, this will inevitably lead to an increase in anti-gay bullying...

RLUIPA Decision On Church Zoning Appealed By County To 10th Circuit

Posted on May 01, 2009
The Religion Clause Blog: "In the case, the Colorado federal district court found that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's finding that the county violated the equal terms, substantial burden and unreasonable limitations provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act in denying the church's special use application...

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