Religion & Law

TMLC sues to stop AIG bailout for its promotion of Shariah finance

Posted on December 16, 2008
The basis of the lawsuit is that AIG intentionally promotes Shariah-compliant businesses and insurance products, which by necessity must comply with the 1200 year old body of Islamic canon law based on the Quran, which demands the conversion, subjugation, or destruction of the infidel West, including the United States.

Why Obama should nominate law professors

Posted on December 16, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will receive much advice in the coming months. One valuable idea that his nascent administration should embrace and implement is nominating legal scholars to serve on the United States Courts of Appeals. Numerous legal academics are particularly well-suited to discharge the critical responsibility of delivering appellate justice.

CA: Debate over student?s ?Prop 8 Equals Hate? t-shirt

Posted on December 16, 2008
Big Bear High School student Mariah Jimenez should be allowed to wear the "Prop. 8 Equals Hate" T-shirt she was banned from wearing on campus, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

Arne Duncan chosen as new Secretary of Education

Posted on December 16, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will name Arne Duncan, the superintendent of schools in Chicago, to be his Secretary of Education, a senior Democratic official and a second person close to the decision said.

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RNC chair candidate Michael Steele talks abortion, same-sex ?marriage?

Posted on December 16, 2008
[Steele:] My personal view is Roe vs. Wade was wrongly decided, which is why I made the point that it should have been left to the individual states to have that battle and to have the communities decide for themselves what they would pay for, what they wouldn?t pay for, what they would accept and what they won?t accept, very much like what is being played on with the gay marriage bill...

Global porn bust rescues dozens of abused children

Posted on December 16, 2008
Pat Trueman, special counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, is thankful and hopes the trend continues. "One hundred seventy people sounds like a lot, but in reality it's a drop in the bucket," he says.

What we should do about natural embryo loss

Posted on December 16, 2008
Perhaps as many as half of all the products of human fertilization fail to implant in the mother?s womb. Yet many pro-life thinkers, myself included, believe that a human embryo is a human person, entitled to the same moral respect as are other living members of the species, members we see walking and talking and interacting in our daily lives...

NYT interview: ?Using embryos to put fertility first?

Posted on December 16, 2008
As director of Stanford?s Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education, Renee A. Reijo Pera, 49, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, works at ground zero of the controversy over human embryonic stem cells. She uses human embryos to create new cells that will eventually be coaxed into becoming eggs and sperm.

Is this child pornography?

Posted on December 16, 2008
What's happening to child pornography is what's happening on the Internet and in software generally: Technology is blurring boundaries between action and thought, public and private, real and fake.

Catholic experts warn against bill that would legalize euthanasia in Uruguay

Posted on December 16, 2008
This week the John Paul II Archdiocesan Institute of Bioethics warned that a new bill being discussed in the Uruguayan Parliament will not provide sufficient guarantees to prevent euthanasia from being adopted.

AZ: Phoenix domestic-partner registry in the works

Posted on December 16, 2008
The Phoenix City Council on Wednesday will consider making the city just the second in Arizona to offer its residents a domestic-partner registry.

Austin Nimocks on the Proposition 8 aftermath

Posted on December 16, 2008
Faced with election results they don?t like?and stung by the upset victory of their opponents?they?ve come out swinging, filing no less than six lawsuits to have the election results nullified and attacking their foes outside the courtroom, too.

Newsweek debate: The Bible and same-sex ?marriage?

Posted on December 16, 2008
On the pro-gay marriage side: Bill Wylie-Kellerman, a United Methodist serving as pastor at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Detroit, Mich. His sparring partner: Dr. Barrett Duke, vice president for Public Policy and Research at The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, an agency of the Southern Baptist Convention which addresses how Christianity should be applied to life.

Single adult stem cell can self renew, repear tissue damage in live mammal

Posted on December 15, 2008
The first demonstration that a single adult stem cell can self-renew in a mammal was reported at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, 2008 in San Francisco.

Hungarian court annuls domestic partnership law

Posted on December 15, 2008
Hungary's Constitutional Court says it has annulled a law giving rights to domestic partners because it would diminish the importance of marriage.

UK: Pair jailed over sex trafficking

Posted on December 15, 2008
Two people have been jailed for their part in the trafficking and exploitation of women for sex in Kent.

CA: D.A. Conspires with City, Abortionists to Silence Pro-Lifer

Posted on December 15, 2008
At a pre-trial readiness hearing in Oakland Superior Court, the Alameda County district attorney demanded that Rev. Hoye plead guilty to one misdemeanor count and agree to stay-away from local abortion clinics for an unspecified period of time in exchange for dismissing three other bogus criminal charges against him...

Pro-abortion groups attack religion in Obama abortion advisory

Posted on December 15, 2008
More than 60 organizations have issued a 55-page report advising the incoming Obama administration on the need to provide more money for abortion-related services. "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration" calls for the most sweeping abortion-rights reforms ever envisioned.

Google wants its own fast track on the web

Posted on December 15, 2008
Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Google has traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers.

Ross Douthat: Is Planned Parenthood Pro-Life?

Posted on December 15, 2008
My idea of a plausible middle ground on the issue requires the overturning of Roe v. Wade, followed by a move toward a system in which abortion is legal but discouraged in, say, the first ten weeks of pregnancy, and basically illegal thereafter.

?Liberal justices prevail in first 5-4 of the term?

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Supreme Court has handed down Altria Group v. Good, a preemption case on cigarette labeling for "light" cigarettes. The Justices split 5-4. Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion: It concludes that the smokers' state law fraud claim against Philip Morris for misleading claims about light cigarettes was not preempted by federal legislation known as the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act.

170 arrested in global child porn investigation

Posted on December 15, 2008
More than 170 people around the globe, including at least 61 in the United States, have been arrested in a major operation targeting international child pornographers, officials said Friday.

AL: Church-based foster home opening in Baldwin County

Posted on December 15, 2008
Curt Williams has given them an alternative. The married father of seven has worked with area churches to locate a foster care group home in Baldwin County modeled on those he founded in Houston in 1984.

NE: Woman claims university fired her for being witch

Posted on December 15, 2008
The filing says the woman, who practices witchcraft as her religion, was hired by the university in February 2007 to direct a youth program. She was fired when it was discovered that she was a witch.

Google acknowledges human intervention in search results

Posted on December 14, 2008
The Register reports: “Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It’s a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Palin?s Church Severely Damaged by Arson after promoting Love Won Out conference

Posted on December 14, 2008
. . . the church came under heavy criticism after promoting the "Love Won Out" conference sponsored by Focus on the Family which helps people struggling with homosexuality to overcome same-sex attractions.

Luxembourg parliament limits monarch?s legislative role

Posted on December 12, 2008
The Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies on Thursday voted to amend the country's constitution to eliminate the requirement that its Grand Duke approve legislation before it becomes law.

Matt Bowman: 10 Issues from the Vatican?s New Bioethics Document

Posted on December 12, 2008
Overall this is a helpful document with several important updates and clarifications. It should be read by all pro-lifers who pay close attention to bioethical abuses and quandaries, or who want to learn.

Catholic University of San Francisco drops abortion coverage

Posted on December 12, 2008
After strong protest from pro-life Catholics, the University of San Francisco (USF) has dropped abortion coverage from a new student health care plan. A top USF official says the Jesuit college supports the pro-life teachings of the Catholic Church and made a mistake in including abortion in the package.

?Same-sex marriage case brings Napier back to Iowa?

Posted on December 12, 2008
The issue that propeled Napier to join ADF made the public spotlight this week, but not in San Francisco; instead, Napier returned to his home state of Iowa, one of the last places he expected to have to defend Iowa's long-standing law that ?only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid...

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