Religion & Law

Gambling Ads Are a ?Sweet Hoax? on Alabama

Posted on March 26, 2009
Alabama Policy Institute: "Gambling interests, under the innocent name the Sweet Home Alabama Coalition, have launched this massive TV, radio and direct mail ad campaign to confuse and mislead Alabamians into believing that legalizing casinos will not only end illegal gambling, it will be the answer to every financial problem in this state...

Rhode Island: Suspect in shooting at strip club has long record

Posted on March 26, 2009
Providence Journal: "The gunman accused of opening fire at the Sportsman?s Inn strip club and shooting three people has a lengthy criminal record with a well-documented propensity for violence."

Bachmann bill would ban global currency

Posted on March 26, 2009
The Hill: "Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has introduced legislation that would 'bar the dollar from being replace by any foreign currency.'"

UN panel touts new global currency reserve system

Posted on March 26, 2009
Breitbart (AFP): "A UN panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to stimulate their economies." Related post: Geithner ?open? to Chinese proposal for new global currency

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8th Circuit affirms Missouri ruling supporting Choose Life specialty license plates

Posted on March 26, 2009
LifeNews reports: "A federal appeals court has issued a decision agreeing with a lower district court ruling upholding the right of Missouri residents to purchase Choose Life license plates for their vehicles. The proceeds from the sales of the plates will fund pregnancy centers that help women avoid abortions...

Appeals court upholds decision requiring Mo. to issue ?Choose Life? license plates

Posted on March 26, 2009
AP: "The Alliance Defense Fund sued in June 2006 on behalf of Choose Life of Missouri and the group's president. The suit alleged lawmakers violated free speech, due process and equal protection rights by rejecting Choose Life's application for the specialty plate, while approving other proposals...

Open road for Mo. ?Choose Life? plates after 8th Circuit clears detour

Posted on March 26, 2009
ADF attorneys win victory in decision that upholds ruling against state?s unconstitutional license plate approval process

San Diego: ?City to Appeal Firefighter?s Awards in Gay Pride Parade Suit?

Posted on March 25, 2009
SanDiego6.com: "The city will appeal a jury's decision to award four San Diego firefighters more than $34,000 in a sexual harassment case they brought after being assigned to ride in a gay pride parade, it was announced Tuesday. The City Council voted 7-0 behind closed doors -- Councilman Tony Young was absent from Monday's meeting ...

NYC changes birth certificate policy for lesbians

Posted on March 25, 2009
Boston Herald: "Married lesbian couples in New York City can now be listed as parents on birth certificates as soon as their children are born. Before, the women would have to go through an adoption process to be listed as the official parents. The city Board of Health voted Tuesday to make the change...

SC: Hundreds rally in support of ?I Believe? license plates

Posted on March 25, 2009
GreenvilleOnline.com: "More than 500 supporters of the 'I Believe' state license plate were urged to speak up for their beliefs and for the production of the plate, which was halted by a federal judge."

?Wherever religion and its patriarchs rule, women?s lives are in danger?

Posted on March 25, 2009
Cathy Elliotts spouts in the Guardian: "And the story's the same across the globe. Wherever religion and its patriarchs rule, women's lives are in danger: wherever abortion is outlawed because the religious police deem it a crime against the innocent, thousands upon thousands of women suffer the fatal consequences of religious men's misogynistic edicts ...

Key senator leaning against reviving Hawaii civil-unions bill

Posted on March 25, 2009
Honolulu Advertiser: The state Senate is expected to vote today on whether to revive a civil-unions bill, but the chances the bill will be pulled from committee are doubtful after a leading senator said he would likely oppose the move. State Sen. Brian Taniguchi, D-10th (Manoa, McCully), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary and Government Operations Committee, said he is leaning against recalling the bill from his committee, where it stalled in a 3-3 vote last month...

ACLU suit challenges NYC plan to replace three traditional public schools with charters

Posted on March 25, 2009
NY Times: "The United Federation of Teachers and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the city?s Department of Education violated state law by moving to replace traditional public schools with charter schools without proper consultation of neighborhood school boards...

NC: Mixed feelings over county?s prayer lawsuit

Posted on March 25, 2009
Winston-Salem Journal: "The lawsuit against Forsyth County is backed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two county residents. The county hired, at no cost, a conservative organization called the Alliance Defense Fund, to defend against the lawsuit after being contacted by the fund...

Investigation confirms UNFPA complicit in China?s One-Child Policy

Posted on March 25, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "Contrary to the claims of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), China's coercive one-child policy is alive and well in the counties in which UNFPA operates, according to an investigation by the Population Research Institute (PRI)...

Singapore cash-for-organs plan raises concern

Posted on March 25, 2009
Breitbart (AFP): "Plans by Singapore to allow payments to living organ donors have run into opposition from some lawmakers who fear they may draw indebted foreign workers, according to press reports Tuesday."

Geithner ?open? to Chinese proposal for new global currency

Posted on March 25, 2009
Politico: "Geithner, at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the U.S. is 'open' to a headline-grabbing proposal by the governor of the China's central bank, which was widely reported as being a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar, but which Geithner described as more modest and 'evolutionary...

Florida: Gainesville voters reject repeal of sexual preference protections

Posted on March 25, 2009
Orlando Sentinel: "Gainesville voters by a 58-42 margin Tuesday rejected a charter amendment that would have stripped anti-discrimination protections for gays and lesbians."

CWA: Obama?s First Judicial Nominee Defines Judicial Activism

Posted on March 25, 2009
Concerned Women for America has issued this press release: "Concerned Women for America (CWA) President Wendy Wright said, 'David Hamilton proved the liberal American Bar Association correct when they rated him as ?not qualified? for his current post...

Pleasant Grove City v. Summum: 9-0 decision makes sense

Posted on March 25, 2009
Mary Jean Dolan writes at the National Law Journal: "A 9-0 judgment for Pleasant Grove City, Utah, on a case involving an icon of the 'Culture Wars' ? a government-displayed Ten Commandments monument ? what's going on here? . . . At least in the certiorari granted and oral argument news cycles, most media stories focused on discrimination against a tiny religion in favor of the familiar Judeo-Christian monument, but that was never the legal issue in the case...

Vt. governor says he?d veto same-sex ?marriage? bill

Posted on March 25, 2009
"Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas says he will veto a bill to legalize gay marriage if it passes the Legislature."

Arizona Supreme Court: Special Needs Scholarship Programs Violate State Blaine Amendment

Posted on March 25, 2009
The Institute for Justice has issued this press release that reports: ?The Arizona Supreme Court?s decision is wrong on both the law and on the facts,? continued Keller. ?For decades the Arizona Supreme Court has said that neutral programs based on parental choice are constitutional...

Arizona Supreme Court Justice to retire

Posted on March 25, 2009
The Center for Arizona Policy reports: "On Monday afternoon, Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor announced her plans to retire in June of this year. Justice McGregor has served on the Arizona Supreme Court since 1998, and has been Chief Justice since June of 2005...

Pennsylvania: ACLU sues Wyoming County DA over threat of charges for sexting

Posted on March 25, 2009
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: "Three students in the Tunkhannock School District in Wyoming County have filed a federal lawsuit against the district attorney there, claiming that his threats to charge them with child pornography for sending pictures of themselves either topless or in bras amount to abuse of his authority...

The Community Defense Reporter Online: Protecting Children and Their Neighborhoods

Posted on March 25, 2009
The February 2009 edition of the Community Defense Reporter is now available online via the Community Defense Counsel.

Disabled children lose fight against ACLU: Ariz. Supreme Court strikes down voucher program

Posted on March 25, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union won its fight against disabled children Wednesday when the Arizona Supreme Court struck down a state program that allowed special needs kids to use vouchers at private schools so that they could receive the best educational opportunities.

Daniel Hannan MEP at European Parliament: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government

Posted on March 25, 2009
Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England, gives a speech during Gordon Brown´s visit to the European Parliament on 24th March, 2009.

Walter Williams: States Rebellion Pending

Posted on March 25, 2009
Walter Williams writes at Townhall: "There are rumblings of a long overdue re-emergence of Americans' characteristic spirit of rebellion. Eight state legislatures have introduced resolutions declaring state sovereignty under the Ninth and 10th amendments to the U...

llinois Pro-Life Groups Band Together to Stop State Version of Pro-Abortion FOCA

Posted on March 25, 2009
LifeNews: "With an upcoming vote in the state House, Illinois-based pro-life groups are banding together to stop a radical state version of the pro-abortion FOCA bill. The so-called Freedom of Choice Act would overturn state laws that reduce abortions and stop taxpayers from having to fund them ...

Favoring contraception and abortion, 43 percent of French Catholics want Pope to ?step down?

Posted on March 25, 2009
LifeSiteNews: "A pair of polls released in France show that increasing numbers of French people want Pope Benedict to 'step down.' According to Catholic commentators, the polls come at a time of unprecedented hostility in the media to the Pope's reiteration of Catholic sexual morality...

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