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Morality in Media President Calls Upon the American Association of Retired People (AARP) to Stop Promoting bettersex.com Products

Posted on January 16, 2009
Morality in Media has issued this press release on the Christian Newswire: “Yesterday, after receiving a telephone call from the Houston-based Centers for Decency informing him that the January 2009 AARP Bulletin contains an advertisement for Better Sex videos, Morality in Media president Robert Peters sent a letter to AARP CEO William Novelli and AARP [...

What?s Left of the Constitution?

Posted on January 16, 2009
What?s Left of the Constitution? January 15, 2009 ?What?s Left of the Constitution?? is a periodic news digest featuring Alliance Defense Fund legal analysis of proposals, policies, and trends advanced by the federal government. On a regular basis, this digest will specifically highlight policies and actions that move America away from the principles of the U...

What?s Next for the Pro-Life Movement?

Posted on January 16, 2009
Jay Sekulow of ACLJ, Randall Terry of Operation Rescue, and the Rev. Thomas Weese of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation to discuss this question. Audio is not available until 6 pm EST. Update - 1/16/2009: The audio is now online...

Florida lawmaker: Education touting sex within marriage is offensive

Posted on January 16, 2009
Two Florida lawmakers have introduced bills meant to discourage teachers from touting the benefits of sex within a monogamous, heterosexual marriage . . .

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Canada: ?Put your money on a victory for polygamy?

Posted on January 16, 2009
"The problem, as Queen?s University law professor Beverley Baines has pointed out, is that the section began historically as an unapologetic religious prejudice, rather than as a limit on the practice of religion ordained for the purpose of some secular social objective ...

U.S. Supreme Court grants cert. in IDEA case

Posted on January 16, 2009
SCOTUS Blog reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has granted cert. in the following case: Docket: 08-305 Title: Forest Grove School District, Petitioner v. T. A. Issue: Whether parents of a student who has never previously received special education services from a school district may be eligible under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for [...

?ACLU Settlement Stops Louisiana From Earmarking Taxpayer Funds To Favored Churches?

Posted on January 16, 2009
The ACLU has issued this press release that begins: “As part of a settlement reached with the American Civil Liberties Union, the state of Louisiana agreed to stop funneling taxpayer-funded grants to certain selected churches. The agreement settles an ACLU lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of portions of a 2007 law that directed [...

Public Schools Need More Federal Funds, Despite Yearly Increases, Union Chief Says

Posted on January 16, 2009
CNSNews: “The nation?s public schools should be included in the economic stimulus package being crafted by Congress and the incoming Obama administration because state and local governments lack funds and are proposing to cut staff and programs, a teachers? union official said ...

Chinese women ?want more babies?

Posted on January 16, 2009
BBC: “Family-planning officials say their research indicates that 70% of women want to have two babies or more . . . “ Share This

Trans Activist Laura Calvo Chosen as Treasurer for Democratic Party of Oregon

Posted on January 16, 2009
JustOut Blog reports (warning ads promoting homosexual behavior): “At a Jan. 10 executive committee meeting of the Democratic Party of Oregon, Calvo was chosen as the statewide party?s new Treasurer, a position which puts Calvo in elite company: she is now among only a handful of openly LGBT statewide political party officers across the country [...

?More gays to serve in Obama White House?

Posted on January 16, 2009
The Washington Blade (warning ads promoting homosexual behavior) reports: “President-elect Barack Obama?s transition team has selected three more openly gay people to serve in his administration, according to a prominent Democratic activist . . ...

Pennsylvania: Sexual orientation and gender identity bill debated in Allegheny County

Posted on January 16, 2009
The Daily News reports: That’s what McKeesport resident Alan Wakefield told Allegheny County Council Thursday as it pondered a bill to establish a county Human Relations Commission. Bill No. 4201-08 also adds sexual orientation and gender identity to protected categories such as race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex and physical handicaps ...

Iraq: ?Mosul, fresh anti Christian violence. Murder and torture?

Posted on January 16, 2009
AsiaNews.it: “36-year old Chourik Bagrad, was massacred with multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Another believer was kidnapped New Years eve: he was released on payment of a ransom of 50 thousand dollars. AsiaNews sources relay that Mosul is a ‘volcano about to explode’...

Bar organizations and labor unions file in opposition to California?s marriage amendment

Posted on January 16, 2009
MSNBC reports: “A state ballot measure that changes the state Constitution to ban gay marriage violates the document’s guarantee of equal protection, 40 bar and legal organizations said Thursday in announcing they filed a brief with the state Supreme Court ...

UK: ?There?s probably no God?

Posted on January 16, 2009
The Financial Post reports: Atheists have started advertising. The most talked about ad campaign in England, now plastered across the outside of 800 British buses, declares: “There’s probably no God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life.” ...

Louisiana asks federal judge to reconsider homosexual adoption ruling

Posted on January 16, 2009
365Gay.com reports: “The state of Louisiana has asked a federal judge to reconsider a ruling that both names of a gay couple must appear on the birth certificate of their adopted son . . . The brief argues that Adar and Smith have no legal right to sue because they could get a birth certificate [...

?Islamic Supremacy?

Posted on January 16, 2009
James Taranto writes in the Wall Street Journal: . . . But there is a serious conceptual problem with the idea of the “war on terror” (or, more precisely, on terrorism–the tactic rather than the emotion): It utterly fails to identify the enemy...

George F. Will: Of Judges, By Judges, For Judges

Posted on January 15, 2009
Brown's audacious argument is a viscous soup of natural-law and natural-rights philosophizing, utterly untethered from case law. It is designed to effect a constitutional revolution by establishing an unchallengeable judicial hegemony . . .

Tribes want more American Indians on federal bench

Posted on January 15, 2009
AP: Leaders of California’s politically powerful Indian tribes are pressing the incoming Obama administration to appoint more American Indians to the federal judiciary. Nearly 900 judges sit on the federal bench throughout the country, but government records show only one claims American Indian ancestry: Frank Howell Seay, a senior district judge in Oklahoma ...

Lambda Legal Director: Never Give Up

Posted on January 15, 2009
365Gay.com carries this commentary by Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director of Lambda Legal. It begins: In the spirit of the season, here are Lambda Legal?s New Year?s resolutions: 1. Look for every opportunity, large or small, to make the case for equality; 2...

Marriage Law Digest Online

Posted on January 15, 2009
The December 2008 Marriage Law Digest is now available online. It is published by the Marriage Law Foundation and the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy. This issue covers the following: 1) VAN KIPNIS V. VAN KIPNIS, No. 213, New York Court of Appeals, December 18, 20-08...

School Administrators Deny Bible Distribution on Religious Freedom Day

Posted on January 15, 2009
Liberty Counsel: “Tomorrow is Religious Freedom Day, yet World Changers of Florida has been denied the right to distribute Bibles within the Collier County School District. Superintendent Dennis Thompson and Attorney Jon Fishbane have unreasonably refused to allow the group to set up tables offering free Bibles during non-instructional time...

Senate comes out of the gate fighting over voter ID

Posted on January 15, 2009
The Dallas Morning News reports: “In an explosive start to their 2009 session, Republican senators on Wednesday pushed through a plan that would clear the way for approval of a hotly disputed voter ID bill this year . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

PJI Defends Pastor Rick Warren in Inauguration Prayer Lawsuit

Posted on January 15, 2009
The Pacific Justice Institute reports: “Kevin Snider, Chief Counsel of Pacific Justice Institute, will appear in federal court Thursday in Washington, D.C. to defend Pastor Rick Warren against a lawsuit seeking to halt prayers at the inauguration of Barack Obama ...

ADF: Marriage amendment needed in Maine more than ever

Posted on January 15, 2009
A marriage amendment is needed more than ever in the state of Maine, according to attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, as legislators added to their agenda Tuesday a bill that would redefine marriage as a union between two ?people.?

Wisconsin: Freedom from Religion Foundation drops nativity challenge

Posted on January 15, 2009
Green Bay Press-Gazette: Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, confirmed Wednesday that her organization has withdrawn its appeal of a suit filed over the city’s display of a nativity scene at City Hall over Christmas 2007...

Child marriage in India endangers maternal health: UNICEF

Posted on January 15, 2009
AFP reports: India’s high rate of child marriage is a major reason for its large number of maternal and infant deaths, said a UNICEF report released Thursday. Child brides “become mothers long before their bodies are physically mature for pregnancy”, said UNICEF’s Karin Hulshof at the launch of the annual “The State of the World’s Children” report [...

NY: Finger Lakes Community College grants same-sex ?marriage? benefits

Posted on January 15, 2009
MSNBC reports: “Finger Lakes Community Collegehas granted health benefits to the spouse of an associate professor, based on a court decision in Monroe County recognizing same-sex marriage. David Harmon, associate professor of history at the college in Hopewell, received benefits for his spouse, Kevin Mayer, beginning Dec...

?Is California ready for 2010 vote on gay marriage??

Posted on January 15, 2009
The LA Times: “Could California be voting on gay marriage again next year? Well, there is a new group, Yes! on Equality, that is beginning a campaign for the “2010 Marriage Equality Initiative.” . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Mexican Socialists Protest International Pro-Family Conference

Posted on January 15, 2009
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Mexico’s Social Democratic Party held a protest outside of the World Encounter of Families conference yesterday, denouncing the notion that a natural family consists of a permanent union between a man and a woman ...

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