Religion & Law

Czech Cabinet Approves Bill Enabling ?Abortion Tourism?

Posted on December 02, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The Czech cabinet has passed a controversial bill that would allow Czech doctors to kill the unborn children of EU residents from other countries with more restrictive abortion laws . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Slate: Back to the FOCA question

Posted on December 02, 2008
GetReligion.org has this post discussing the politics associated with The Freedom of Choice Act and the danger it poses for Democrats. Visit Site » Share This

EU Rejects Patent that ?Necessarily Involves the Use and Destruction of Human Embryos?

Posted on December 02, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: The EU?s patent office has ruled that under the provisions of the European Patent Convention (EPC), it cannot offer a patent for the so-called ?WARF/Thomson stem cell application? on the grounds that it would involve the destruction of human embryos...

ime to Stop Demonizing Pro-Life Advocates as Against All Stem Cell Research

Posted on December 02, 2008
Robert Meyer writes at LifeNews.com: “For some reason, probably strategic and, in order to play on emotion, the argument is usually presented as a false dilemma: Some are for stem-cell research, while some others are against it. I have seen no instances where such a dichotomy of the issue is actually the case...

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Muslims ? India?s new ?untouchables?

Posted on December 02, 2008
Asra Q. Nomani, a Muslim, writes in the LA Times: Indeed, the government report I read about in the newspapers two years ago acknowledged that Muslims in India had become “backward.” “Fearing for their security,” the report said, “Muslims are increasingly resorting to living in ghettos around the country...

India: Mumbai Muslim Cemetery Refuses To Bury Terrorists; Police Seeking Alternatives

Posted on December 02, 2008
Religion Clause Blog: In India, at least one Muslim cemetery is refusing to bury the bodies of the slain Mumbai terrorists. Yesterday’s London Times reports that the Jama Masjid Trust said it will not bury the men in its Badakabrastan graveyard because they could not be true followers of Islam...

West Virginians rally for traditional marriage

Posted on December 02, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: ” . . . 80 percent of West Virginians do not want a court making same-sex marriage legal in West Virginia.” The Family Policy Council of West Virginia is currently urging pastors to sign an online letter to the state government, asking that the issue be placed on the ballot...

Marijuana Conviction Upheld; Religious Freedom Defense Rejected

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In People v. Rubin, (CA Ct. App., Dec. 1, 2008), a California state appellate court upheld a defendant’s conviction for selling marijuana and possessing it for sale. The court rejected his argument that the Free Exercise clause of the state and federal constitutions protected his activity...

Washington: Limitation on Church Attendance Does Not Violate Parolee?s Free Exercise Rights

Posted on December 02, 2008
Religion Clause Blog reports: In Burchett v. Bromps, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96920 (ED WA, Nov. 20, 2008), a Washington federal district court rejected a free exercise challenge to the conditions of his community release brought by a pedophile sex offender...

Recognition of Christmas Suppressed by Some Governments, Businesses

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Pacific Justice Institute reports: Advocates for religious liberty are dismayed that, once again, recognition of the upcoming Christmas holiday is being discouraged and even banned by some government officials and employers . . . We’ve received reports that children of extremely tender years are being criticized by school officials for wishing one another a “Merry Christmas...

Washington: ?Nonbelievers? sign at Capitol counters Nativity?

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Seattle Times reports: In the latest round of what’s become almost a winter tradition ? conflicts over religious symbols in public places ? a group of atheists and agnostics have put up a sign in the state Capitol that says, in part: “Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds...

Schwarzenegger declares fiscal emergency seeks federal aid

Posted on December 02, 2008
The LA Times: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the new Legislature in to work on its first day, declaring a fiscal emergency Monday in response to the state’s deteriorating finances and urging lawmakers to “get off of their rigid ideologies...

ABA: ?The Blawg 100: Best of the Blogosphere?

Posted on December 02, 2008
The ABA Journal carries this report that begins: On our second annual list of the best legal blogs, just half of last year?s honorees make a return appearance . . . This year, blogs that aren?t updated at least weekly?no matter how interesting?often didn?t make the grade...

Governors Against State Bailouts

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Wall Street Journal carries this article by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina. They write: As governors and citizens, we’ve grown increasingly concerned over the past weeks as Washington has thrown bailout after bailout at the national economy with little to show for it...

Report: Bush Administration Leaves Indelible Mark on Church-State Relations

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy has issued this press release: A series of pivotal rulings by courts and regulatory changes by the Bush Administration have opened the door more widely to government partnerships with faith-based organizations, but the Obama Administration is free - and seems likely - to clarify and narrow some federal [...

Born alive during botched abortion, a little girl receives a proper burial two years later.

Posted on December 02, 2008
Florida Catholic reports: More than two years after her ignominious death at an abortion clinic, baby Shanice Denise Osbourne was laid to rest at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Cemetery in North Lauderdale . . . Williams, 18 at the time, was 23 weeks pregnant when she went to A GYN Diagnostic Center in Hialeah to abort [...

Lots of TV and Web harms kids? health

Posted on December 02, 2008
Reuters: “Spending a lot of time watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web makes children more prone to a range of health problems including obesity and smoking, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. U.S. National Institutes of Health, Yale University and the California Pacific Medical Center experts analyzed [...

UK: Lack of parental involvement leads to communication deficit for young children

Posted on December 02, 2008
The Guardian reports: Pupils starting primary school increasingly need to be taught to speak because they have heard little language at home beyond the “daily grunt” from their parents, according to the report . . . Research shows that success in school is largely dependent on communication skills, but in poorer homes children hear 500 different words [...

?Gay people shouldn?t worry too much about Proposition 8. Marriage isn?t all it?s cracked up to be?

Posted on December 02, 2008
Mark simpson writes in the Guardian: Gay marriage is being presented by many gay people and liberals on both sides of the Atlantic as the touchstone of gay equality . . . But not all gay people agree. This one sees gay marriage so much as a touchstone as a fetish...

An ugly attack on Mormons

Posted on December 02, 2008
Jonah Goldberg writes in the LA Times: . . . At a pro-gay-marriage rally in Los Angeles after the vote, chants of “Mormon scum!” were reported. Envelopes containing white powder have been sent to Mormon temples in California and Utah; vandals hit other temples...

Franken may seek Senate?s help to win race

Posted on December 02, 2008
The U.S. Constitution allows each congressional chamber to be the "Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members."

American teens lie, steal, cheat at ?alarming? rates: study

Posted on December 02, 2008
Overall, 30 percent of students admitted to stealing from a store within the past year . . . An overwhelming majority, 83 percent . . . admitted to lying to their parents about something significant . . . 64 percent . . . had cheated on a test . . .

Why Arizona Flipped On Gay Marriage

Posted on December 02, 2008
CBS: What happened between 2006, when Proposition 107 was narrowly rejected, and 2008, when Proposition 102 breezed through? . . . Cathi Herrod, president of the conservative Center for Arizona Policy, told me the length and complexity of the ballot initiative cost the “yes” campaign between 5 and 11 percent of the vote [in 2006]...

Jan LaRue: eHarmony Caves In to Intimidation Litigation

Posted on December 02, 2008
Jan LaRue writes at the Culture and Media Institute: “Intimidation litigation is what?s happening to privately owned businesses, especially Christian-owned businesses, churches, and para-church organizations when state anti-discrimination laws, which were meant to end discrimination based on immutable characteristics like race, are amended to include ’sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity...

Kentucky: Atheists Sue Over God Reference in Anti-Terror Law

Posted on December 02, 2008
ABA Journal: “A group advocating for atheists rights will file suit today against Kentucky’s Office of Homeland Security because state law requires the agency to stress ‘dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth...

Homosexuality editorial puts 1st Amendment on trial

Posted on December 02, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: A woman is suing the university where she worked for firing her over a privately written newspaper commentary expressing her Christian views on homosexuality. Crystal Dixon, the former associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo, was fired in May after she objected to an opinion article in the Toledo Free [...

Strip club?s risque sign troubles residents

Posted on December 02, 2008
(Warning: the story carries a photo of the billboard) Newsday: In the hopes of coming up with a plan to do something about the Platinum Club’s sign, New York City council member James J. Sanders (D- Queens) and Nassau Legis. Jeff Toback (D-Oceanside) Monday night addressed an audience of 200 at the Temple Kneseth Israel in [...

Human Trafficking: A Closer Look at a Growing Worldwide Problem

Posted on December 02, 2008
Fox News: Moments ago we spoke to Ambassador Mark Lagon, Secretary of State Rice’s global advisor for fighting human trafficking . . . VAN SUSTEREN: I was reading some of your materials–across borders over 800,000 people a year or more. LAGON: If you look at trafficking within borders, it’s millions, and across borders we think it’s at [...

Kansas District Court Finds Judges May Solicit Money

Posted on December 02, 2008
Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom 1 South 6th Street Terre Haute, IN 47807-3510 PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, December 2, 2008 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812/232-2434; Fax 812/235-3685; jboppjr@aol.com Kansas District Court Finds Judges May Solicit Money On Monday, November 24, the United States District Court for the District of Kansas held unconstitutional provisions of the Kansas Code of Judicial Conduct banning judicial candidates from [...

Florida Governor?s wedding targeted by homosexual activists

Posted on December 02, 2008
CNA reports: “Following the recent electoral victory of a marriage amendment proposed for the Florida constitution, homosexual activists plan to demonstrate outside the church wedding and reception of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist next Friday.” The governor supported passage of the states newly adopted marriage amendment, Proposition 2...

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