Religion & Law

Breitbart to join GOProud?s advisory council

Posted on January 19, 2011
Big Government: "Today, GOProud, the only national organization of gay conservatives and their allies, announced that conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart will join the organization?s Advisory Council. 'Andrew Breitbart is one of the most influential voices in the conservative movement today,' said Christopher Barron, Chairman of GOProud?s Board...

House repeals healthcare law, 245-189

Posted on January 19, 2011
"The House voted on Wednesday to repeal the sweeping healthcare law enacted last year, as Republicans made good on a central campaign pledge and laid down the first major policy marker of their new majority."

Saudi Arabia now forcing news bloggers to obtain licenses, promote Islam

Posted on January 19, 2011
Fast Company: "The Middle Eastern kingdom has just enacted one of the world's most stringent sets of blogging regulations: Non-citizens can't write about news, chat room users are encouraged to register with the government, and everyone needs to be very careful about religion...

The power of Al Jazeera

Posted on January 19, 2011
Global Post: "It has been boycotted, banned and bombed. But Al Jazeera's Arabic language service is most widely watched news channel in Middle East."

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Australia: Euthanasia Bill ?will not pass?

Posted on January 19, 2011
ABC News: "ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says a Greens bill to restore the Territory's right to make euthanasia laws will not pass."

Israel: Knesset rejects euthanasia proposal

Posted on January 19, 2011
Ynetnews: "In a preliminary reading, the Knesset has rejected a law proposal that would have allowed terminally ill patients to take drugs that would cause them to die."

Iowa: Abortion-restriction measure draws challenge

Posted on January 19, 2011
Des Moines Register: "A legislative proposal to further restrict abortion in Iowa met resistance during its first legislative airing Tuesday: One Democratic lawmaker made repeated requests that advocates of the bill back their assertions with credible science...

Netherlands: Catholic school keeps headscarves ban

Posted on January 19, 2011
Radio Netherlands Worldwide: "The Don Bosco secondary school in Volendam refuses to scrap its headscarves ban despite a ruling by the Commissie Gelijke Behandeling (Equal Treatment Commission)."

AL: Gov. Bentley apologizes for ?Christian Brother? comments

Posted on January 19, 2011
WSFA: "Before a crowd of reporters and Jewish leaders Wednesday afternoon, Governor Robert Bentley apologized for comments that many considered offensive towards non-Christians."

MD: Middle school basketball player sidelined for wearing religious headscarf

Posted on January 19, 2011
ABC: "A middle school girl was kept out of the first half of a basketball game Saturday because a referee ruled her religious headscarf, called a hijab, was a safety hazard."

Idaho marriage license fee hike proposed

Posted on January 19, 2011
Spokesman-Review: "Idaho should consider raising its marriage license fee by $20 to help provide legal counsel in civil cases involving children and families, the chief justice of the state?s Supreme Court told lawmakers today."

HRC: ?New opportunity to pass civil unions in Hawaii?

Posted on January 19, 2011
Human Rights Campaign: "The time is now to finally end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the Aloha State, and to treat ALL families in Hawaii with the same dignity and respect. No child of a same-gendered family should have to grow up thinking their family is somehow less loving or legitimate than their straight counterparts...

New Jersey: 23 new charter schools receive thumbs up

Posted on January 19, 2011
NorthJersey.com: "The state on Tuesday approved 23 new charter schools, including a controversial Hebrew immersion school for children in Englewood and Teaneck, and a virtual high school for Paterson students."

CPAC beset by accusations of ?pro-gay? takeover, Muslim agenda

Posted on January 19, 2011
Fox News: "Allegations of a pro-gay takeover, boycotts, embezzlement and terrorist-loving board members. Sounds like a Hollywood version of a conspiracy thriller, but it's not. It's the buzz around this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, the nation's single largest annual congregation of conservative leaders...

The abortion debate heats up: ReligionLink?s resources and experts

Posted on January 19, 2011
ReligionLink: "The Republican tsunami that carried the GOP to control of the House (and led to the defeat of at least half of the 40 or so pro-life Democrats in Congress) also swept through the nation?s statehouses. As a result, abortion opponents also hold out hope that state legislatures will continue to pass laws restricting abortion or will adopt measures like mandated ultrasounds for women contemplating an abortion...

WA: Thousands rally in Olympia against abortion

Posted on January 19, 2011
Seattle Times: "Carrying roses, crosses and signs, thousands of protesters marched to the Capitol today in an annual rally against abortion in Washington state."

WI: Officials slow down Sheboygan?s charter school program

Posted on January 19, 2011
Sheboygan Press: "Sheboygan Area School District officials are putting the brakes, ever so slightly, on expanding the district's charter school program amid concerns by some that they're creating a two-tier educational system where more motivated and affluent families are fleeing neighborhood schools for programs that more closely fit their children's needs...

Hawaii in danger of losing ?Choose Life? license plates

Posted on January 19, 2011
Hawaii Right to Life: "Hawai'i motorists are in danger of losing the 'Choose Life' plate. We have only 98 plates on the road and DMV requires 150."

NYT: ?Parenting by gays more common in the South, census shows?

Posted on January 19, 2011
New York Times: "[A]s demographers sift through recent data releases from the Census Bureau, they have found that Jacksonville is home to one of the biggest populations of gay parents in the country. In addition, the data show, child rearing among same-sex couples is more common in the South than in any other region of the country, according to Gary Gates, a demographer at the University of California, Los Angeles...

South Sudan votes to secede: preliminary results

Posted on January 19, 2011
AFP: "South Sudan achieved the simple majority needed to secede in its independence referendum, preliminary results collated by AFP showed on Wednesday, even with many counties still to report."

Union head: More spending, not cuts to spur growth

Posted on January 19, 2011
Associated Press: "AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said the rush to trim federal and state budgets was shortsighted, would hurt middle-class workers and do little to spur economic growth."

Senator Bill Nelson to seek re-election

Posted on January 19, 2011
WTSP: "Nelson, a Democrat, told about 120 editors and reporters attending The Associated Press' annual legislative meeting that he's confident that he and President Barack Obama will fare well in 2012 when Florida will have 29 electoral votes in the presidential election...

Ranking of state charter school laws

Posted on January 19, 2011
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools: "2010 proved to be quite a year for charter school legislation, with several states making positive changes." | 2011 report

New report finds Californians want more marriage support from the faith community

Posted on January 19, 2011
ChristianNewsWire: "California Healthy Marriages Coalition (CHMC) has released an unprecedented in-depth study, The State of California's Unions -- In the Pews and the Public Square. This is the first-ever report that looks at Californians' views on marriage and divorce matters and compares them based on their self-described levels of religious activity ...

Thomas More Law Center: AIG ruling means sharia has gained foothold in US

Posted on January 19, 2011
Thomas More Law Center: "Last week, Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff, a federal district court judge in Michigan, dismissed a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Government?s bailout of AIG, which used over a hundred million dollars in federal tax money to support Islamic religious indoctrination through the funding and promotion of Sharia-compliant financing (SCF)...

James Poulos: Tradition in the age of equality

Posted on January 19, 2011
James Poulos writing at Cato Unbound: "To understand the fate and future of traditions, we need an alternative to the secularization thesis?and a different conceptual point of departure than 'modernity' . . . [Tocqueville and Nietzsche] recognized that, in a democratic age, Biblical morality would be opposed only insofar as it retained its noble aspect?its commanding system of yeses and nos that authoritatively establish a moral hierarchy...

African Islam push into sub-Saharan region = volatile environment

Posted on January 19, 2011
OneNewsNow: "A Pentagon advisor says the apparent victory of a Muslim candidate in the Ivory Coast's disputed presidential election is the latest example of how Islam is steadily moving its influence southward into sub-Saharan Africa."

Urgent prayer needed today to end the killing of 37+ million girls in China

Posted on January 19, 2011
ChristianNewsWire: "In China, there are at least 37 million more men than women, and that gap is growing each year . . . This gendercide is waging a war against Chinese girls every day, primarily as a result of the One-Child Policy."

Canada: Halton Catholic board overturns ban on ?gay-straight clubs?

Posted on January 19, 2011
Parent Central: "The Halton Catholic District School Board has struck down a controversial ban on gay-straight clubs that some newly elected trustees say did not reflect their views . . . at a meeting Tuesday attended by dozens of opponents to the ban, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Union, the new trustees voted 6-2 to scrap the clause that had sparked outrage from human rights advocates, sparked a protest petition and drawn a thumb?s-down from celebrity blogger Perez Hilton...

Jill Stanek: NYC?s bill targeting pregnancy centers

Posted on January 19, 2011
Jill Stanek writing at WorldNetDaily: "Bill No. 371, which mimics ordinances passed in Baltimore and Austin, would force PCCs in New York City to post signage that they do not commit abortions or distribute contraceptives. It would also force them to notify clients if there were no doctor in the house ...

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