Religion & Law

Abortion and Premature Birth Link Confirmed Again in Study of German Women

Posted on February 12, 2009
LifeNews: “Another study has confirmed the link between abortion and subsequent premature births when a woman is pregnant again.” Visit Site » Share This

ADF attorneys seek appeal in NY same-sex ?marriage? recognition suits

Posted on February 12, 2009
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed documents Wednesday seeking to appeal separate lawsuits against New York officials for attempting to recognize out-of-state same-sex ?marriages? in contradiction to state law.

Louisiana: Judge dismisses suit to have strip club shut down

Posted on February 12, 2009
WAFB Channel 9: “A state judge has dismissed a civil suit that could have closed down a strip club in Ascension Parish.” Apparently, the primary issue in litigation is whether or not a successor in interest to a property used as a strip club is entitled to grandfathering rights...

Florida: Prayer, Invocations Coming To After-School Functions?

Posted on February 12, 2009
CFNews13.com:  ”A bill now before the Florida Legislature would allow prayer and invocations at after-school functions, like football games and graduation ceremonies . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

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UK: School clerk faces sack over prayers

Posted on February 12, 2009
Press Association:  A school receptionist has said she is facing the sack after asking a church for prayer support when her daughter was told off for expressing religious beliefs during a lesson. Jennie Cain said her five-year-old daughter Jasmine was in tears after being told off for talking about God and heaven  ...

8th Circuit: ?Appeal in child porn case rejected?

Posted on February 12, 2009
AP: “A federal appeals court has rejected the appeal of a North Dakota man sentenced to more than 21 years in prison in a child pornography case, saying his 1968 conviction in Iowa could be considered in his sentencing.” Visit Site » Share This

Minnesota slippery slope: Anoka-Hennepin schools adopt ?sexual orientation? neutrality policy

Posted on February 12, 2009
"The new policy states that district staff must remain neutral on issues concerning sexual orientation. A previous version of the policy stated homosexuality was not to be taught as a 'normal, valid lifestyle.'"

Oklahoma legislature: Prayer?s reference to same sex ?loving partner and finance? causes ruckus

Posted on February 12, 2009
NewsOK.com:  It wasn?t the prayer as much as an Oklahoma City pastor?s opening words that apparently troubled a fifth of the state House members. The Rev. Scott Jones thanked his legislator, Rep. Al McAffrey, who asked him to pray to open Wednesday?s House session and acknowledged several in the gallery ? “dear friends, my wonderful parents, and my loving partner and fiance, [...

What is Political Philosophy?

Posted on February 12, 2009
We enter a moment in modern history when the vision and insight, the comprehensive perception of political philosophers is all the more needed than in over half a century. Perhaps it is the times more than anything that give rise to such vision - context, more than anything, affords what is needed - but in the meantime we have largely disfigured a generation of political thinkers in ways that make it incapable for most to reflect in the deepest way about our current moment...

Missouri: Academy helps citizens get connected

Posted on February 12, 2009
For Faith and Family:  That was repeated again and again by legislators and speakers at a Jan. 6 State Capitol conference designed to teach ordinary citizens how to influence their state legislators. Upwards of 100 people were in attendance from all over the state...

Fathers: In or Out?

Posted on February 12, 2009
"Why is fathering such a hot topic at the moment? . . . less than 30% of non-resident, divorced fathers generally have weekly contact with their children. Never-married, non-residential fathers see their children even less often . . . "

Sneak attack on marriage: Are the rulings by two Ninth Circuit Judges appropriate?

Posted on February 12, 2009
At the National Review Bench Memos Blog, Matthew J. Franck raises various questions about the propiety of the recent rulings by Ninth Circuit judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen Reinhardt interpreting the Federal DOMA. Franck asks:  Are these orders of Judges Kozinski and Reinhardt not then “advisory opinions” on the meaning and constitutionality of federal law, of [...

?Homeschooling: America?s Hidden Breeding Ground for Conservative Ideology?

Posted on February 12, 2009
AlterNet carries this article by Julien Brygo, a journalist based in France, lamenting the fact that home schooled students are not subjected to state indoctrination. Visit Site » Share This

Washington: State lawmaker proposes tax on pornography

Posted on February 12, 2009
MSNBC: “State Rep. Mark Miloscia, D-Federal Way, wants to create a sales tax specifically for pornographic materials like magazines and movies. He’s proposed adding an 18.5 percent tax to the existing sales tax paid on these items.” Visit Site » Share This

Rahm?s fingerprints all over package, tactics

Posted on February 12, 2009
Mike Soraghan writes at the Hill: “Rahm Emanuel may have moved his office down Pennsylvania Avenue, but to stand in the hallways of the Capitol lately, it seems he never left . . . ” Visit Site » Share This

AFA TV special stifled in face of protests by advocates of homosexual behavior

Posted on February 12, 2009
One News Now: “The American Family Association (AFA), a pro-family group based in Mississippi, has encountered resistance in its attempts to air a television special called Speechless: Silencing the Christians.” The report indicates that several TV stations have refused to air the production in the face of protests by advocates of homosexual behavior...

6th Circuit upholds Knox County, TN SOB ordinance

Posted on February 12, 2009
. . . a Sixth Circuit panel upheld Knox County?s comprehensive (licensing, midnight closure, no alcohol, no nudity, 6-ft, no-touch, etc.) sexually oriented business ordinance against a four-part challenge from three Tennessee SOBs . . .

Utah?s Republican Gov. under fire for civil unions support

Posted on February 12, 2009
The Salt Lake Tribune:  Gays-rights proponents and opponents ramped up their rhetoric for and against Jon Huntsman Jr. on Wednesday — two days after Utah’s Republican governor revealed that he backs civil unions and other rights for same-sex couples ...

?Portuguese Bishops Resolve to Fight ?Homosexual Marriage? Proposal by Socialist Prime Minister?

Posted on February 12, 2009
LifeSiteNews: “Following a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference (CEP) in Fatima, the leadership of the Church has announced that ‘the organizations of the Church will move’ to combat the proposal by the Socialist Party to equalize homosexual unions with matrimony...

Spanish Families Defy Mandatory Homosexual Indoctrination in New Video

Posted on February 12, 2009
LifeSiteNews: “Spanish families who are resisting their government’s mandatory homosexualist indoctrination program have made a video expressing their defiance.” Visit Site » Share This

PA: ?Gay marriage rally draws 100 supporters?

Posted on February 12, 2009
PennLive.com: “Honking horns and revving engines rang out at the corner of Front and Market streets in Harrisburg as more than 100 people gathered in support of gay marriage rights.” Visit Site » Share This

Zogby poll: 80% support teaching evidence for and against Darwin?s evolution theory

Posted on February 12, 2009
CNSNews: “. . . The telephone survey of 1,053 likely voters by Zogby showed that 80 percent of Americans ‘agree that teachers and students should have the academic freedom to discuss both the strengths and weaknesses of evolution as a scientific theory...

South Korea High Court Upholds Ruling Allowing Removal of Patient?s Life Support

Posted on February 12, 2009
LifeNews: “The South Korea High Court has upheld a lower court ruling from December allowing the family members of a terminally ill woman to remove her feeding tube and take her off life support. The decision comes just three days after an international debate over the euthanasia death of Eluana Englaro ...

Kazakhstan?s amendments to religion law ruled unconstitutional

Posted on February 12, 2009
Interfax-Religion: “According to the Constitutional Council (CC), the amendments to the religion law, passed by the Kazakhstan Parliament in late 2008, are in conflict with the country’s Constitution, CC chairman Igor Rogov said . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Wisconsin: County Board Moves To Moment of Silence; Generates Strong Objections

Posted on February 12, 2009
Religion Clause Blog reports: “The Dodge County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors last week decided to end the practice of opening their meetings with a prayer from one of the Board members. Instead meetings will begin with a moment of silence.” Visit Site » Share This

Proposal Would Delete Anti-Atheist Clause of Arkansas Constitution

Posted on February 12, 2009
Religion Clause Blog reports that a resolution has been introduced to repeal this: “Art. 19., Sec. 1 of the Arkansas Constitution provides: ‘No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any court...

NY: Senate Confirms Lippman as Chief Judge

Posted on February 12, 2009
The NY Law Journal reports: “Confronting concerns about the process that led to his nomination to the state’s highest judicial office, Jonathan Lippman, on Wednesday, promised state senators who confirmed him that he would make expanding diversity in the judiciary one of his principal goals ...

Obama?s abortion order ignores law

Posted on February 12, 2009
Thomas J. Lucente, Jr. writes on the East Valley Tribune regarding Obama’s lifting of the Mexico City Policy:  . . . This is about abuse of power and playing the legal loophole game. It is illegal for the federal government to fund abortions overseas under a 1973 law...

Texas: Chief justice seeks to abolish judicial elections

Posted on February 12, 2009
How Appealing links to several reports along with “the text of Texas Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson’s remarks yesterday on the “State of the Judiciary” in Texas by clicking here.” Visit Site » Share This

David Ogden and the New Pornographers: Why the Senate Should Reject His Nomination

Posted on February 12, 2009
Ogden has argued that a law designed to protect children from molestation and rape at the hands of child pornographers would ?burden too heavily and infringe too deeply on the right to produce First Amendment protected material.? The law Ogden opposed reasonably asks that those who wish to profit by selling explicit content keep documents verifying that their models are of legal consenting age.

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