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Study: Single moms spend less time with children

Posted on November 26, 2008
UPI: “Mothers who are married or cohabit spend similar amounts of time caring for their children, but single mothers spend less, U.S. researchers said. Sarah Kendig and Suzanne Bianchi, both of the University of Maryland, used data from the American Time Use Survey to study the relationship between family structure and maternal time with children [...

Board Keeps Faulty Ballots from Minnesota Senate Count

Posted on November 26, 2008
The AP reports: “In a blow to Democrat Al Franken, a state board ruled Wednesday that absentee ballots that were rejected by poll workers won’t be included in Minnesota’s Senate recount.” Visit Site » Share This

?Delaware May Fight Maryland Slots With Sports Gambling?

Posted on November 26, 2008
OnlineCasinoAdvisory.com reports: “Maryland’s legalization of slots at horse tracks has caused consternation in Delaware, whose race tracks draw heavily from the neighboring state. Some politicians want to fight back by using the state’s unusual ability to host sports gambling...

Australian Senate Passes De Facto Same-Sex ?Marriage? Laws

Posted on November 26, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Two bills passed in the Australian Senate yesterday represent a step towards granting homosexual partnerships the same rights and recognitions as natural marriage. Changes have been made to around 100 family, health and taxation laws so that they now include same-sex partnerships in the provisions for opposite-sex couples living together in ‘de facto,’ [...

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Cardinal on Biblical Condemnation of Homosexuality: We?re Not Allowed the Cowardice of ?Politically Correct? Silence

Posted on November 26, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “In ‘Sheep and Shepherds’, Cardinal Biffi notes that the Biblical condemnation of homosexuality is explicit and Christians are not “allowed, if�we want to be faithful to the word of God, the pusillanimity of passing over it in silence out of concern of appearing ‘politically incorrect...

Canadian Human Rights Commission Consultant?s Report Calls For Repeal of ?Hate Speech? Law

Posted on November 26, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Constitutional law expert Richard Moon of the University of Windsor has recommended that the Canadian government scrap Section 13 of the Human Rights Act, the ‘hate-speech’ provision which empowers the CHRC to censor the Internet and other electronic media...

British law aims at preventing forced marriage

Posted on November 26, 2008
The AP reports: “A British law went into effect Tuesday that allows courts to prevent someone from being forced into marriage ? a move that comes as governments across Europe confront immigrant practices that sometimes clash with more liberal values...

UK: 14-year-old girls to be taught about their ?right? to have an abortion

Posted on November 26, 2008
Made by the Family Planning Association, Why Abortion? shows a range of scenarios in which actresses justify abortion on the grounds that they cannot afford to have a child or that it could jeopardize their relationship with parents or boyfriends.

Thanking the Puritans on Thanksgiving

Posted on November 26, 2008
Their lives were structured by morality; they came to our continent as family men ? bringing their wives and children. They were also extremely educated men ? on the cutting edge, in many ways, of European enlightenment. They were, Tocqueville observes, animated by a "purely intellectual need...

?NYCLU declares victory in same-sex marriage case as Monroe County says it won?t appeal?

Posted on November 26, 2008
The Empire State News: “Monroe County officials have announced they will not challenge a New York Civil Liberties Union appeals court victory requiring recognition in New York State of lesbian and gay couples? valid out-of-state marriages.” Visit Site » Share This

U.S. Muslims Taken Aback by a Charity?s Conviction

Posted on November 26, 2008
The NY Times reports: “American Muslim groups responded with uncustomary silence on Tuesday to the news that leaders of a Muslim charity shut down by the federal government had been convicted in a retrial of money laundering, tax fraud and supporting terrorism...

?Florida Judge Strikes Down Gay Adoption Ban; ACLU Eyes Arkansas Law?

Posted on November 26, 2008
The Morning News reports: The American Civil Liberties Union scored a victory Tuesday in Florida when a circuit judge declared that state’s law banning gays from adopting children unconstitutional. Representatives of the ACLU, which had challenged the Florida law, said the group is considering the possibility of a similar challenge to Arkansas’ law banning unmarried couples from [...

A Judge Orders a Woman Not to Have Children While On Probation: Did He Violate Her Rights?

Posted on November 26, 2008
Sherry F. Colb writes on Findlaw: . . . Notwithstanding the case law recognizing a fundamental right to determine one’s reproductive life, Judge Baird asserted that this unusual probation condition was an appropriate one. He explained, first, that the law gives him a great deal of discretion to set any reasonable probation condition...

Thanksgiving 2008 Presidential Proclamation

Posted on November 26, 2008
President Bush: "We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God."

Tony Perkins: ?Healing for the Holidays: Adult Stem Cell Research Still Outpaces Embryonic?

Posted on November 26, 2008
Tony Perkins has this commentary on LifeNews.com promoting adult stem cell research. Visit Site » Share This

Indiana Planned Parenthood offers gift certificates

Posted on November 26, 2008
WishTV.com reports: “For the first time, Planned Parenthood in Indiana is offering gift certificates. The organization said a big increase in calls and visits from newly unemployed and uninsured Hoosiers prompted what it calls the unusual, yet practical gift option...

Thomas More Society asks 7th Circuit to Illinois Choose Life License Plate ruling

Posted on November 26, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A federal appeals court ruled earlier this month that Illinois officials who don’t want to issue Choose Life license plates for state motorists don’t have to do [...]

Texas: Defining Unborn Child as ?Person? In Murder Law Upheld

Posted on November 26, 2008
Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Eguia v. State of Texas, (TX Ct. App., Nov. 20, 2008), a Texas appellate court upheld appellant’s conviction for murdering a woman and her unborn child. The court rejected appellant’s constitutional challenge to the Texas statute that defines an unborn child as a “person” for purposes of the capital murder [...

Who yelled ?tyrant? at AG Mukasey? A judge

Posted on November 26, 2008
The AP reports: A Washington State Supreme Court judge has admitted that he was the one who stood up and yelled “tyrant!” at U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey last week, during a speech in which Mukasey later fainted. Judge Richard Sanders says he was speaking his conscience when he interrupted Mukasey at a black-tie dinner Thursday night [...

?Gay rights leaders plan $1-million war chest to defend judges who back same-sex marriage?

Posted on November 26, 2008
The LA Times reports: Gay rights leaders hope to build a $1-million war chest to defend any judge threatened with recall for ruling in favor of gay marriage, leaders announced during a conference call with supporters Tuesday night . . . During their “virtual” town hall, “Prop 8: The Facts and the Future,” gay rights leaders talked [...

Federal Court Rebukes San Diego County for Shutting Down Church

Posted on November 26, 2008
The Pacific Justice Institute has issued this press release that reports: A federal judge has ruled that Guatay Christian Fellowship is likely to win its lawsuit against San Diego County. The church, represented by attorneys with Pacific Justice Institute, had rented the same location for nearly a quarter-century before the County abruptly decided that it was [...

Dr. James Dobson responds to Kathleen Parker: ?We won?t be silenced?

Posted on November 26, 2008
Citizen Link carries Dr. Dobson’s response to Kathleen Parker.� He writes: . . . Whatever she once was, Ms. Parker is certainly not a conservative anymore, having apparently realized it?s a lot easier to be popular among your journalistic peers when your keyboard tilts to the left...

?The Preposterous Premise for Gay Marriage?

Posted on November 26, 2008
Frank Turek has this commentary at Townhall. He concludes: . . . The bottom line is that we?re not discriminating against anyone with our current marriage laws.� Like most laws, we?re only discriminating for or against behavior that is good or bad for our country...

The Battle for Minnesota?s Senate Seat

Posted on November 26, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports: “. . . Today, the state’s five-member Canvassing Board meets to rule on Mr. Franken’s demand that it review whether absentee ballots rejected by county officials can be added to vote totals. Those ballots are likely to determine the outcome and will be the center of challenges in the courts [...

?A Day of Thanksgiving:? The national holiday actually began at a dark hour during our war for independence.

Posted on November 26, 2008
. . . Saratoga turned the tide of the war -- news of the victory was decisive in bringing France into a full alliance with America. Congress responded to the event . . .

Missouri: ?You?re Not Going to Get Away With It!? But Homeschooling Family Stands Firm

Posted on November 26, 2008
HSLDA reports: . . . In March, Shari Egarta told the elementary school teachers for her four children that she would be homeschooling them the following year. In May, she followed up with a letter to the principal. On the last day of school, a school counselor told Mrs...

Democratic power struggle complicates NY bid to redefine marriage

Posted on November 26, 2008
"I will not give my vote to a leader that will bring gay marriage to the state," Diaz, a Pentecostal minister, said in an interview. "Have a voter referendum. Let the people decide." . . .

Matt Bowman: ?Conscience protection for health care providers, who threatens the status quo? Bush or Obama?

Posted on November 26, 2008
Congress recognized in 1973 what the abortion movement is implementing in state laws today: once abortion is a "right," access to it becomes a right, and participating in it becomes an enforceable duty.

Iowa?s marriage battle: Despite media deceit, 60%+ support marriage as only between one man and one woman

Posted on November 26, 2008
Why are the headlines so biased when the polls obviously show that the overwhelming majority of Iowans still support marriage as between one man and woman? Could it be an effort to influence the courts or the public's reaction to court rulings?

NY: City Rule May Close 2 Island Faith-Based Homeless Shelters

Posted on November 26, 2008
The Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy reports: An order from the city could shut down two faith-based homeless shelters on Staten Island, even as dropping temperatures threaten the lives of people who sleep in the cold. In other boroughs, 22 churches have stopped providing shelter to homeless New Yorkers because of a city rule requiring [...

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