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Leahy Vows to Name Names if Nominees Are Delayed

Posted on March 11, 2009
The Blog of the Legal Times: “Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is warning his colleagues that he will shine a light on any of them who try to hold up a nominee of President Barack Obama.” Visit Site » Share This

Colo. bill extending benefits to homosexual ?partners? advances

Posted on March 11, 2009
The Denver Post reports: A committee of the Colorado House has approved a bill extending health insurance coverage to the partners of gay and lesbian state workers. Under the bill approved Tuesday by the State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, partners who have been in a committed relationship with a state employee for at least a year [...

Same-sex Israeli couple allowed to adopt

Posted on March 11, 2009
JTA reports: A gay Israeli couple can legally adopt their foster son, a Tel Aviv court ruled. Former Knesset member Uzi Even and his life partner, Dr. Amit Kama, who were married in Toronto in 2004, on Tuesday were given the right to adopt their 30-year-old foster son, whom they took in 15 years ago...

Ross Douthat takes NYT opinion post replacing Kristol

Posted on March 11, 2009
Marc Ambinder reports (and Douthat confirms) that Ross Douthat will leave his post at the Atlantic to replace Bill Kristol on the opinion page at the New York Times. Douthat is co-author, along with Reihan Salaam, of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream...

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Scottish Government to hush homosexual adoption report

Posted on March 11, 2009
The Christian Institute reports that “the results of an official investigation into the effects of gay adoption in Scotland will not be made public.” It has now emerged that the results will not be published, sparking concerns that they may contain findings which would alarm the public...

Florida lawmaker introduces bills to legalize homosexual adoption

Posted on March 11, 2009
Carol Marbin Miller reports in the Miami Herald: State Sen. Nan Rich, a Weston Democrat who is co-chair of the Senate Children & Families Committee, has filed a bill to repeal the 1977 Florida law that prohibits gay men and lesbians from adopting children...

Kentucky bill prohibiting unmarried adoptions not scheduled for vote

Posted on March 11, 2009
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: The sponsor of a controversial bill to ban unmarried couples from becoming foster or adoptive parents acknowledged yesterday that the bill is dead. “It’s too late,” Sen. Gary Tapp, R-Shelbyville, said of Senate Bill 68, which was voted out of committee last week but still hasn’t been called for a floor vote...

UK: Scientist urges use of organs of the aborted

Posted on March 11, 2009
Fiona McCrae, writing at the Daily Mail Online: Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be given to the desperately ill and ease the organ donor shortage, a leading scientist has claimed. Professor Sir Richard Gardner, an Oxford University stem cell expert, said foetal tissues may offer a more realistic solution to the lack of organs than [...

Preserving Marriage in Substance, Not Just Name

Posted on March 11, 2009
Ryan T. Anderson, writing at National Review: Should the state treat marriages the same way it treats baptisms and bar mitzvahs ? as purely religious practices properly left to religious institutions? That?s what some are now arguing. If the state didn?t create marriage, they reason, then religion must have; and the state shouldn?t endorse sectarian religious [...

Chuck Colson: ?Chilling free speech: Mapping political persecution?

Posted on March 11, 2009
Chuck Colson writes at the Florida Baptist Witness:� Dotting the streets on a certain online map are hundreds of red teardrops. Click on a teardrop at a particular address, and come up with the words, ?Patricia Greenwood. Insurance agent. $100.? Miss Greenwood had better watch her back...

NY: DOT to allow tractor-trailer with religious message to stay

Posted on March 10, 2009
Watertown Daily Times:� The state Department of Transportation has reached a tentative settlement with Daniel W. Burritt, allowing the Gouverneur contractor’s religious messages on a parked tractor-trailer to stay alongside Route 11 . . .� “After reaching this settlement, we’re pleased that Mr...

11th Circuit dismisses Fla. Family Policy Council judicial questionnaire suit on standing grounds

Posted on March 10, 2009
. . . the 11th Circuit determined that the Florida Family Policy Council does not have standing to challenge the constitutionality of Canon 3E(1) and 3E(1)(f) of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct which was impairing receipt of responses to its judicial candidate questionnaires...

Media lavishes praise on Obama?s embrace of the culture of death

Posted on March 10, 2009
U.S. News and World Report: Obama’s Stem Cell Move, Rebuke Of Bush Win Media Praise The President’s unveiling of new Federal stem cell research guidelines is receiving glowing media coverage, with most reports including lead stories on two out of three network broadcasts casting the move as a significant step away from former President Bush’s science [...

Paterson appoints two lesbians to NYS Appellate Division including former Lambda Legal head

Posted on March 10, 2009
Gay City News: “In a press statement issued late in the day on March 5, Governor David A. Paterson announced four appointments to vacant positions in three of the state’s four Appellate Departments. Two of the four appointees are openly lesbian judges in the state Supreme Court system, the trial court level within the judiciary...

Vermont: Professional organizations back marriage redefinition

Posted on March 10, 2009
Burlington Free Press:� Same-sex marriage rights received the endorsement Monday of four Vermont professional organizations that cited research findings that “children of lesbian and gay parents are as likely as those of heterosexual parents to flourish...

?The coming evangelical collapse?

Posted on March 10, 2009
Michael Spencer writes at the Christian Science Monitor: We are on the verge ? within 10 years ? of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West...

ADF attorneys seek to dismiss lawsuit against National Day of Prayer

Posted on March 10, 2009
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys asked a federal court Monday to throw out a lawsuit that claims government-issued proclamations which call on citizens to pray are unconstitutional.

WV same-sex adoption case: ADF attorneys argue children should not be intentionally deprived of a mom or dad

Posted on March 10, 2009
Judges and politicians should never impose a system that knowingly deprives a child of a mom and a dad,? said Babione. ?In this case, there are qualified married couples willing to adopt this child, so there is no reason whatsoever to ignore the law and place this child in a non-married household...

Conservative Peg Luksik to challenge Sen. Specter

Posted on March 10, 2009
AP: “Peg Luksik, who ran for governor three times in the 1990s, plans to challenge Arlen Specter for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2010 and on Tuesday said she wouldn’t back down if fellow conservative Pat Toomey decides to join the race...

Proposition 8 donor: ?The new blacklist?

Posted on March 10, 2009
Maureen Mullarkey, writing in The Weekly Standard: Until now, donating to a cause did not open private citizens to a battery of invective and jackboot tactics. While celebrities sport their moral vanity with white ribbons, thousands of ordinary Americans who donated to Prop 8 are being targeted in a vile campaign of intimidation for having supported [...

?The President politicizes stem cell research?: Various commentators

Posted on March 10, 2009
Robert P. George and Eric Cohen, writing in the Wall Street Journal: First, the Obama policy is itself blatantly political. It is red meat to his Bush-hating base, yet pays no more than lip service to recent scientific breakthroughs that make possible the production of cells that are biologically equivalent to embryonic stem cells without the [...

GOP Cross-Overs Have Earmarks to Gain in $410 Billion Spending Bill

Posted on March 10, 2009
Fox News: Senate Democrats are expected to win over just enough Republicans to move forward on a controversial $410 billion spending bill by the end of the night Tuesday. But it may come as no surprise that almost all of the Republican senators who are either expected to support the bill or are considering supporting the bill [...

Conn. Proposal To Regulate Catholic Church Pulled

Posted on March 10, 2009
Hartford Courant: “A controversial bill that would change the way the Catholic church governs itself has been pulled and a public hearing planned Wednesday on the issue postponed until its constitutionality can be determined . . . ” Related:� Marriage payback? Connecticut bill seeks to regulate church finances Visit Site » Share This

Catholic Bishop of Phoenix: What should science trump?

Posted on March 10, 2009
"Science should trump ideology? is a code phrase that means science should trump the Fifth Commandment, ?Thou shalt not kill.? . . . Let?s be clear about what this presidential decree is about . . . forcing all American taxpayers to pay . . .

Video: Hannity?s America reports on a Tenn. school?s effort to cover up God

Posted on March 10, 2009
Hannity’s America reported on a lawsuit recently filed by ADF against a Tennessee school district that covered up all student references to God. The mp4 video file runs just under 1 minute. � Related:� Mike Johnson on the Frank Pastore Show: Tenn school orders God references covered Visit Site » Share This

Christians Falling under Global Campaign of ?Bullying and Intimidation?: Sydney Cardinal at Oxford

Posted on March 10, 2009
LifeSiteNews:� There is a growing culture of suppression among secularist governments that is using the doctrine of “tolerance and diversity” to push Christians entirely out of public life, Australia’s Cardinal Pell told an audience at Oxford University this weekend...

President Obama Also Drops Executive Order for Adult Stem Cell Research Funds

Posted on March 10, 2009
LifeNews: “President Barack Obama did more on Monday than just�force taxpayers to fund�embryonic stem cell research that requires the destruction of human life. He also rescinded an executive order President Bush put into place funding adult stem cells and new research with iPS cells...

Doug Kmiec argues in favor of undermining Prop 8

Posted on March 10, 2009
Findlaw carries two commentaries by Douglas W. Kmiec discussing the pending Prop 8 litigation before the California Supreme Court: The California Supreme Court Hearing on the Validity of Proposition 8, the Initiative Banning Gay Marriage: How the Case Implicates the Very Purpose of a Constitution, the Rule of Law, and Human Liberty Itself: Part One in [...

The Appropriate Place for Religion in the Intelligent Design Debate

Posted on March 10, 2009
Ron Carlson writes at�AwakenGeneration.com:� Many who oppose the Intelligent Design position will argue that as soon as you open the door to supernatural creation, you necessarily open the door to any and every version of supernatural creation ever postulated by humanity...

Detroit church face-lift angers atheists

Posted on March 10, 2009
One News Now:� Atheists have sued downtown Detroit for including churches in a local community improvement project. Alliance Defense Fund�(ADF) attorney Dale Schowengerdt says downtown Detroit wanted image repairs in preparation for the 2006 Super Bowl, so the City of Detroit Downtown Development Agency struck a deal with local establishments ...

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