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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Crackdown outlawing the truth

Posted on April 21, 2009
Catholic.net: "'The homosexual legal agenda is the principal threat to religious liberty in America today,' said Alliance Defense Fund attorney Mike Johnson. 'We?re trying to raise the alarm that Christians shouldn?t let their First Amendment rights die the death of a thousand little cuts...

Marriage rates drop in Wisconsin

Posted on April 21, 2009
Wisconsin Radio Network: "Marriage rates in the Badger State have dropped 32-percent since 1985, according to a report by the Wisconsin Family Council. Executive Director Julaine Appling says young people often look at marriage now as a 'life sentence,' rather than a life enriching institution...

Ariz. tuition tax credit program still standing after 9th Circuit decision

Posted on April 21, 2009
"McCaleb explained that scholarship tuition organizations that fund only religious schools do not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because they are private organizations that do not distribute any government money."

The ACLU shirks ?blasphemy? free speech fight at U.N.

Posted on April 21, 2009
Forbes: "But one prominent group with a growing human rights agenda and a professed commitment to freedom of conscience and speech opted not to oppose the religious defamation resolution--the American Civil Liberties Union. As The Forward observed in an Oct...

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Porn film to be shown at Carnegie Mellon

Posted on April 21, 2009
WPXI reports: "A movie being shown to Carnegie Mellon students on Sunday is causing controversy around campus. 'The New Devil in Miss Jones' is hard-core pornography and it?s being presented by the Student Activity Board in the Student Union Auditorium...

Planned Parenthood aims to open new clinic in Michigan

Posted on April 21, 2009
Detroit Free Press: "Citing growing need, Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan plans to open a clinic in or near Pontiac by the end of 2009 ? the first in Oakland County in several years."

UK schools could close for Islamic holidays

Posted on April 21, 2009
Chris Riches reports in the Daily Express: "Schools across Britain may soon shut down for Islamic festivals ? as councils try to combat appalling attendance rates on non-Christian festival days."

Ruling To Come Later In Prayer Lawsuit

Posted on April 21, 2009
Associated Press: "'This vague policy coupled with hypersensitivity leads to inconsistent application,' said Nate Kellum, the group's attorney. 'What you're talking about here is opinion, and what we've found is a backlash since (the ACLU case) that appears to be against religious speech...

Mexican state approves pro-life amendment with overwhelming majority

Posted on April 21, 2009
LifeSiteNews reports: "The amendment, which passed [Nayarit's] legislature 27-3 with zero abstentions, was supported by a broad spectrum of legislators ranging from the conservative National Action Party (PAN) to the liberal Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), to the socialist Labor Party (PT)...

Abortionist assails terms of Indiana ?admitting privileges? bill

Posted on April 21, 2009
Journal Gazette: "The doctor who has been the focus of debate about new restrictions related to performing abortions in Indiana spoke against the legislation Monday - the same day the Senate author filed a dissent on changes the House made to the bill...

Irish gov?t files legal papers defending abortion ban

Posted on April 21, 2009
LifeNews reports: "The government of Ireland has filed legal papers with the European Court of Human Rights in defense of it ban on most abortions . . . In November, the Family Research Council, represented by the Alliance Defense Fund pro-life law firm, filed papers supporting the ban with the court...

Indiana: 400 people show up at town meeting to protest sex shop

Posted on April 21, 2009
WHAS11 reports: "Four hundred people showed up at a Clarksville town council meeting to protest the Theatair X sex shop. A group called ROCK says the theater violates the city's sexually oriented business ordinance."

Fla. Supreme Court to hear Florida Bar case involving homosexual adoption case

Posted on April 21, 2009
Liberty Counsel: "Tomorrow the Florida Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case of Liberty Counsel v. The Florida Bar. Earlier this year Liberty Counsel filed a petition at the Florida Supreme Court, arguing that the Bar should remain neutral in the state's homosexual adoption controversy...

TN school officials accused of censoring posters defend actions

Posted on April 21, 2009
Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty: "The ADF put on a full-court press at the time this happened, arguing this as an example of Christianity under attack in schools, never mentioning of course that this same school had been sued and forced to pay $171,000 in court costs for giving preference and access to the religious efforts of many of these same parents...

?Embryo adoption is here to stay?

Posted on April 21, 2009
Cheryl Wetzstein writing in the Washington Times: "A colleague and I recently investigated embryo adoption as an emerging family-formation process. An important aspect of our research was chasing down the number of babies born from embryo adoption (also called embryo donation)...

North Carolina legislative review from the NC Family Policy Council

Posted on April 21, 2009
"The big news last week was a continued lack of movement on the Marriage Amendment in either chamber and final passage in the House of HB 88-Healthy Youth Act, which would overturn North Carolina's abstinence law. As amended in committees and on the floor, the bill would mandate the teaching of Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) in all 115 school districts in the state...

Groups want faith exemption on same-sex ?marriage? issue

Posted on April 21, 2009
"What's at stake, these groups say, are the rights of citizens whose religious beliefs teach them that homosexuality is sinful, immoral or wrong."

New Video: Planned Parenthood Staff Urge Teen to Lie About Sex Abuse-Abortion

Posted on April 20, 2009
LifeNews: "A new undercover videotape shows staff at a Tennessee Planned Parenthood abortion clinic urging a client to lie about her potential sexual abuse so she could get an abortion."

?Arizona School Agrees To Lift Rainbow Ban Following ACLU Demand Letter?

Posted on April 20, 2009
ACLU press release: "Peoria Unified School District has assured the American Civil Liberties Union that it will no longer prevent a gay 14-year-old student from wearing a rainbow wristband at school, following an ACLU letter that demanded that the school district rescind its ban on the wristband...

D.C. Prepares to Recognize Out of State Same-Sex ?Marriages? May 5

Posted on April 20, 2009
"A final vote on May 5 is poised to confirm a preliminary vote last week by D.C.'s city council to recognize same-sex 'marriages' performed in other states . . . Some commentators have speculated that it could also incite Congressional discussion over the (DOMA)...

46.9 % of Chileans oppose abortion

Posted on April 20, 2009
Angus Reid Global Monitor: "Adults in Chile are split on the topic of pregnancy termination, according to a poll by Ipsos, 46.9 per cent of respondents are opposed to abortion, while 39.1 per cent would allow it in some cases."

Fed grant aids Maine child porn unit

Posted on April 20, 2009
Bangor Daily News: "Lawmakers are praising a federal grant to the State Police Computer Crimes Unit that will maintain existing capacity and add new detectives to investigate the rapidly increasing caseload of child pornography downloaded in Maine from the Internet...

New laws treat teen prostitutes as abuse victims

Posted on April 20, 2009
AP: "By the time she was 8, Amanda had been sexually abused by her father's friend for four years. At 12, she was peddling crack. At 14, she was selling sex on the sidewalk. Her pimp beat her weekly to keep her working, stitching up her wounds himself to avoid questions at a hospital...

Campus Leftists Don?t Believe in Free Speech: Conservative speakers now have bodyguards when they visit universities.

Posted on April 20, 2009
David Horowitze writes at the Wall Street Journal: "I arrived in Austin, Texas, one evening recently to give a speech about academic freedom at the university there. Entering the hall where I was to give my speech, I was greeted -- if that's the word -- by a raucous protest organized by a professor and self-styled Bolshevik, Dana Cloud...

Rudy Guiliani supports traditional marriage, considers run for NY gov.

Posted on April 20, 2009
New York Post: "The former mayor, in an extended interview with The Post, also predicted that Gov. Paterson's high-profile effort to legalize gay marriage would anger many New Yorkers and spark a revolt that could help sweep Republicans into office in 2010...

States plan vice taxes

Posted on April 20, 2009
Times Online: "As 150m Americans made their way to post offices last Wednesday, the last day they could mail their annual tax returns, a handful of organisations stepped up their bids to get taxed for the first time."

Cong. Trent Franks: Abortion is a 21st Century civil rights battle

Posted on April 20, 2009
Washington Times: "The history of the American abortion movement is replete with evidence of the purposeful placement of family planning clinics in areas with high concentrations of minorities. In fact, as many as 70 percent of abortion clinics are located in inner-city or minority neighborhoods...

Is adoption the new front in ?gay rights? battle?

Posted on April 20, 2009
Heather Sells reports at CBN News: "One of the priorities of the Obama administration is to advance adoption rights for gay couples. . . . These kids are at the center of an adoption debate that has a powerful lobbyist: the White House. President Obama's move to push gay adoption is part of his civil rights agenda...

Arizona to seek abstinence-only federal funds

Posted on April 20, 2009
Howard Fischer reports in the East Valley Tribune: "The move comes after Republican Gov. Jan Brewer reversed the directive of her Democratic predecessor not to seek grants from Washington because the cash could be used to fund programs that say abstinence is the only acceptable behavior for people who are not married...

Assisted suicide isn?t a painless debate

Posted on April 20, 2009
Townhall: "If we don't question the issue of assisted suicide and its seeming acceptance as an almost casual reality by the media, we're going to realize quickly that we have moved way beyond debating extraordinary care and the legality of assisted suicide in terminal cases...

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