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Mexico Succumbs to International Pressure to Provide Abortions in Public Hospitals

Posted on March 12, 2009
LifeSiteNews: “Mexican health officials have acceded to the demands of international pro-abortion organizations to require public hospitals to provide abortions in cases of rape . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Saudi Academy in Va. revises Islamic history books

Posted on March 12, 2009
AP: “An Islamic school in nortern Virginia with close ties to the Saudi government has revised its religious textbooks in an effort to end years of criticism that the school fosters hatred and intolerance . . . ” Visit Site » Share This

Tennessee Senate Panel Passes Amendment to Limit Court Ruling on Abortion

Posted on March 12, 2009
LifeNews: “The pro-life community in Tennessee is trying again to get the state legislature to approve an amendment that would make the Tennessee Constitution abortion-neutral. The amendment is necessary because the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled 4-1 in 2000 that the state constitution allows unlimited abortions...

?Michael Steele is now pro-choice except when he?s pro-life?

Posted on March 12, 2009
Christian Science Monitor: Mark your calendars. This could be the first time Republicans are saying ?Chris Matthews is right.? No, Matthews wasn?t donning a ?Drill, Baby, Drill? T-shirt or anything last night. Rather, the Hardball host expressed bewilderment at something said by GOP chair Michael Steele...

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ASU College of Law: Academic Freedom and the Treatment of Dissenting Ideas in the Modern University

Posted on March 12, 2009
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UK: ?Potential Cohabitation Law Reform: An Attack on Marriage?

Posted on March 12, 2009
CCFON reports: There is a second reading of Lord Lester?s Private Member?s Bill on cohabitation on Friday 13th of March in the House of Lords. The proposals in the Bill would allow the court to make the same type of financial orders as on divorce where a couple (of the same or opposite sex who are not married [...

Minnesota to offer state-run Shariah-compliant home lending

Posted on March 12, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: “An editorial in Investor’s Business Daily yesterday says that the state of Minnesota is about to become the first to offer a state-run Shariah-compliant home lending program. ” Visit Site » Share This

Texas Court Asks For Further Briefing On Praying Employees? Free Exercise Claim

Posted on March 12, 2009
Religion Clause Blog reports on the case of Shatkin v. University of Texas at Arlington, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18018 (ND TX, March 10, 2009), involving free exercise claims by two employees fired from the U. of Texas for praying for a co-employee who they said was ‘demonically oppressed...

Religious Groups Oppose Proposed NY Limitations Extension For Abuse Cases

Posted on March 12, 2009
Religion Clause Blog: “Today’s New York Times reports that Catholic and Orthodox Jewish groups are lobbying hard against a proposed bill that would extend the statute of limitations for filing of civil child sexual abuse cases. The bill,A2596 and S2568, which now has a good chance of passing, would give a one-time one year window for victims to file [...

?Global warming to carry big costs for California?

Posted on March 12, 2009
AP: “Costs resulting from global warming in the decades ahead, according to a new report. Global warming could translate into annual costs and revenue losses throughout the economy of between $2.5 billion and $15 billion by 2050, according to a summary of cost analyses presented to Gov...

Florida lawmaker files bills that would legalize homosexual adoptions

Posted on March 12, 2009
Miami Herald: As gay rights advocates and religious groups queue up in an effort to influence the outcome of a Miami appeals court case that will help decide whether gay people can adopt children in Florida, a state lawmaker has quietly introduced two bills that could render the dispute moot...

?Why the Tenth Amendment ?Nullification? Arguments Against the Stimulus Bill Are Sheer Folly?

Posted on March 12, 2009
Edward Lazarus writes at Findlaw: . . . In the wake of the passage of the stimulus bill, it was widely reported that a bevy of states, many of them so-called “red” states, entertained legislation purporting to declare the federal legislation “unconstitutional” ? as, allegedly, a violation of rights guaranteed the states under the Tenth Amendment [...

Florida: ACLU Pushes for Felon Voting Rights

Posted on March 12, 2009
WCTV.tv: “The American Civil Liberties Union says felons should have an easier transition back into society. And they feel there should be a better process in place for voting rights. For a felon, the ACLU says local offices do not know who has a right to vote or how they go about doing so...

EEOC Data Shows Rise In Religious Discrimination Complaints

Posted on March 12, 2009
The Religion Clause Blog: “The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday released its enforcement and litigation statistics for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008. They show an overall 15% rise in workplace discrimination complaints from the prior year...

ADF appeals ruling that continues to allow two hours of ?free speech? per week at SLU

Posted on March 12, 2009
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have appealed a judge?s decision to allow Southeastern Louisiana University to enforce its permit requirement and two-hours-per-week ?free speech? policy against a Christian speaker while his lawsuit against the school continues.

NC judge orders homeschool mother to put kids in public school

Posted on March 12, 2009
Huliq News: “As reported by WorldNetDaily.com, on Friday, March 6, Judge Ned W. Mangum stripped Raleigh resident Venessa Mills of her right to homeschool, and ordered her three children to enter public school.” Share This

9th Circuit Considers Christian Student Group?s Challenge to Law School?s No-Bias Policy

Posted on March 12, 2009
"In 2004, Hastings refused to recognize the Christian Legal Society because it wouldn't allow gays and non-Christians to be members -- violating the school's nondiscrimination policy . . ."

Student?s long blasphemy term upheld in Afghanistan

Posted on March 12, 2009
International Herald Tribune: The Supreme Court in Afghanistan has upheld a 20-year prison sentence for an Afghan university student journalist accused of blasphemy. The case has alarmed news media and rights organizations in the country and abroad ...

Minneapolis fired Christian psychologist after learning of affiliation with pro-family organization

Posted on March 12, 2009
Alliance Defense Fund Litigation Counsel Jim Campbell and ADF Senior Legal Counsel Brian Raum will be available for media interviews Friday following Campbell?s oral arguments in favor of a Christian doctor terminated by the city of Minneapolis for having ties to a pro-family organization.

Penn. police officer punished for refusing to violate First Amendment rights of Christians

Posted on March 12, 2009
ADF-allied attorneys filed a lawsuit against officials of Kutztown University and its police chief Monday on behalf of a police officer who refused to violate the constitutional rights of a group of Christians . . .

Some states applaud new stem-cell funding

Posted on March 12, 2009
Christine Vestal writes at Stateline: “President Obama?s March 9 move to allow federal funding for stem-cell research is expected to greatly benefit states such as California that already have invested in the controversial science. But the decision ? which lifts an eight-year-old ban by the Bush administration ? will give nearly all states a shot [...

Idaho Futile Care Bill: Doctors Can Unilaterally Decide to Push People into the Grave

Posted on March 12, 2009
Wesley Smith writes at Secondhand Smoke: "I have looked more closely at the awful Idaho futile care bill, S 1114, which I first addressed earlier today. Here are two more extremely objectionable clauses that show the intent to create a duty to die for the most infirm--and expensive for which to care--among us...

Woman stabbed, another arrested after incident at Green Bay strip club

Posted on March 12, 2009
Green Bay Press-Gazette: "An 18-year-old De Pere woman was arrested late Wednesday night after she allegedly stabbed a co-worker at an east side Green Bay strip club."

Utah House passes $2.4B budget, but freezes charter schools

Posted on March 12, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah charter schools might soon have to put growth on hold. The House passed a $2.4 billion school budget Tuesday that would prohibit, among other things, charter school growth in 2010-11."

Florida: 19 arrested in prostitution sting; Hallandale Beach strip club shut down

Posted on March 12, 2009
Palm Beach Post: "HALLANDALE BEACH - Accusing its dancers of offering more than lap dances, a police SWAT team burst into the Cheetah strip club early Saturday and arrested 19 people in a raid that culiminated a two-year investigation by state and local authorities...

White House Says Obama Will Not Allow D.C. School Vouchers To Expire

Posted on March 12, 2009
CBS: "White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insinuated today that President Obama will reverse a provision in the omnibus spending bill to terminate school vouchers for underprivileged students in Washington, D.C. "

Wisconsin: Atheists? group, church battling with bus signs

Posted on March 12, 2009
AP: "An atheists' group and a church are taking their rivalry on the road, using ad space on Madison Transit buses to display their competing messages."

Michael Steele: Homosexuality is not a choice

Posted on March 12, 2009
Gay Politics: In an interview with the magazine GQ, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele expressed the views that homosexuality is not a choice and that every woman has the right to choose abortion.

Arizona court upholds private school tax credit

Posted on March 12, 2009
"The Arizona Court of Appeals on Thursday handed school-choice supporters a win, upholding the constitutionality of a state tax break for businesses' donations to help pay for tuition grants for students attending private schools."

Georgia House Passes HB 388: Nation?s First Embryo Adoption Bill

Posted on March 12, 2009
Georgia Right to Life reports on the Christian Newswire: ". . . This bill allows for embryos that are currently in cryopreservation to have the legal right to adoption as human beings in accordance with the child adoption laws of the State of Georgia...

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