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Pennsylvania: Teachers? attendance at prayer approved in face of CLS pressure

Posted on November 21, 2008
PennLive.com reports: The Carlisle Area School Board voted 8-1 Thursday to allow teachers to participate in the annual See You at the Pole prayer event, provided they make clear “they are doing so in their individual capacities, and not in any way in their role as employees of the school district...

County Council Member Objects To Rezoning Because of Opposition To Church Policy

Posted on November 21, 2008
Religion Clause Blog reports: Catholic News Agency reports today that Beaufort County, South Carolina Councilwoman Laura Von Harten has apologized for controversial remarks she made at a Council committee meeting last Monday . . . During discussion at the Committee meeting, however, Van Harten spoke to say she would not support the rezoning when it [...

Gallup Poll Finds Americans Want Republican Party to Stay Conservative

Posted on November 21, 2008
LifeNews: “The new poll, conducted from November 13-16 finds 59 percent of Republicans want the party to become even more conservative with 28 percent saying it should stay the same. Just 12 percent of Republicans want the GOP to become less conservative...

Kentucky Baptists resolve to protect the unborn

Posted on November 21, 2008
Towers Online reports: Kentucky Baptists reaffirmed their desire to protect the lives of the unborn and committed to support the Southern Baptist Convention?s Crossover Louisville event through resolutions passed during the 171st annual meeting of the Kentucky Baptist Convention last week...

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Pew Study Finds Less Than One Percent of Election Coverage Included Abortion

Posted on November 21, 2008
LifeNews.com: “If some Americans voted for Barack Obama for president without knowing his strong pro-abortion views, a new Pew study finds the media is partly to blame. The new Pew Forum study found less than 1 percent of campaign news coverage related to abortion issues...

Brazilian Psychologists Prohibited from Helping Catholic Church Screen Out Homosexual Priesthood Candidates

Posted on November 21, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com: . . .� According to an announcement on the Brazilian “Psychology Online” website, the CFP has ruled that “psychologists cannot evaluate people for this purpose, under penalty of infringing the Code of Ethics and Resolution 001/99 of the CFP, which establishes norms of behavior for psychologists in relation to the issue of sexual orientation...

Chris Adamo: The narrow path to reviving conservatism

Posted on November 21, 2008
Chris Adamo has this commentary on Renew America that begins: In their typically duplicitous fashion, Republican “moderates” who orchestrated this latest electoral catastrophe are once again blaming the lingering vestige of conservatism in the McCain campaign as the factor that ultimately doomed its prospects...

David Limbaugh: Evangelicals - A Drag on or Essential to the GOP?

Posted on November 21, 2008
David Limbaugh writes on Townhall: A good friend of mine (let’s call him Bob) is convinced that unless the GOP puts abortion “aside as its focal point, it simply cannot win and regain power.” That’s especially interesting in light of Kathleen Parker’s latest column, which disses the evangelical wing of the GOP...

FCC, DOJ Appeal Janet Jackson To Supreme Court

Posted on November 21, 2008
Broadcasting & Cable reports: FCC, Justice Dept. ask Supreme Court to overturn appeals court decision throwing out $500,000 fine against CBS . . . The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in July threw out the FCC’s $550,000 fine against CBS stations for the broadcast as arbitrary and capricious...

German Court Orders Children to Be Returned to Homeschooling Family against State Advice

Posted on November 21, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: A Family Court judge in Germany has ruled that the children of a homeschooling family should be returned to the parental home on the condition that their school-aged children be enrolled in a state-approved school and the three-year-old in a ?playgroup? for ?socialization outside the family...

Mad Max and the Meltdown: How we went from Christmas to crisis.

Posted on November 21, 2008
The Wall Street Journal: “This year we celebrate the desacralized “holidays” amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin — fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed. People wonder, What happened? One man’s theory: A nation whose people can’t say “Merry Christmas” is a nation capable of ruining its own economy...

Arnold Schwarzenegger?s Wife: I?m ?a Catholic in Good Standing? But Also Pro-abortion and Pro-Homosexual

Posted on November 21, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: California?s first lady, Maria Shriver, recently told Sally Quinn of the Washington Post that she considers herself “a Catholic in good standing” despite the fact that she openly advocates abortion. “I find I don’t spend a lot of time trying to square my own daily life with the institutional Church,” said Shriver...

3rd Circuit: Parents Can?t Sue Under No Child Left Behind Act

Posted on November 21, 2008
Shannon P. Duffy reports on the Legal Intelligencer: Parents have no right to sue under the federal No Child Left Behind Act because Congress designed the law only to regulate school districts and never included any “rights creating” language that would allow individuals to seek enforcement through lawsuits, the 3rd U...

Hillsborough Co., Florida: Make school calendar secular

Posted on November 21, 2008
The St. Petersburg Times has this editorial that begins: A committee of parents and educators in Hillsborough County has proposed a school calendar for 2009-2010 that drops religious holidays. This is a thoughtful step toward ending a controversy enabled by the very people ? school administrators, the unions and publicity-hungry politicians ? whose cooperation is essential...

Richard John Neuhaus: ?The Deadly Convenience of Christianity Without Culture?

Posted on November 21, 2008
. . . we are heading into a greatly intensified public clash of state power and religious freedom, something not entirely unlike the Kulturkampf attempted by Bismarck in the nineteenth century, Christian leadership is ill prepared for the battles ahead ...

Melting pot cracks as Muslims reject Christian names in France

Posted on November 21, 2008
TimesOnline: They are born in France and called Louis, Laurent or Marie but they want to become Abdel, Said or Rachida. Such requests from immigrants? children for name changes are mounting in the French courts and worrying a state that lays store on melding a single national culture...

No stay on Proposition 8, marriage defenders allowed into lawsuit

Posted on November 20, 2008
The California Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it will not issue a stay of Proposition 8 and granted a motion by defenders of Proposition 8 led by an ADF-allied attorney to intervene in a lawsuit filed against the new marriage amendment.

Planned Parenthood CEO Claims Cardinal O?Malley Out of Step With Catholics

Posted on November 20, 2008
LifeNews.com: “It’s no surprise that Catholic Church officials take pro-abortion politicians or groups to task for saying they are out of step with pro-life Catholic teachings. Now, a Planned [...]

Matt Bowman on Reality Check radio: The Lauren Richardson euthanasia case

Posted on November 20, 2008
ADF Attorney Matt Bowman appeared on the Reality Check Radio Show with Mike Monokian to discuss the Lauren Richardson euthanasia case in Delaware. The mp3 file (8 mb) runs just over 35 minutes. Related: Potential Euthanasia Victim Lauren Richardson Saved, Parents Reconcile Visit Site » Share This

U. of Maryland: SGA debates marriage redefinition next week

Posted on November 20, 2008
DiamondbackOnline reports that next week the U. of Maryland SGA will debate a proposal that recommends marriage redefinition. Visit Site » Share This

New York: Massage parlor owner sentenced for sex trafficking

Posted on November 20, 2008
Niagara Gazette: “Len Wah Chong to serve six years in sex trafficking case. The owner of four massage parlors that were shut down last year as part of a federal prostitution sting will serve six years in prison for her part in a sex trafficking operation...

UK government unveils plan for sex trade crackdown

Posted on November 20, 2008
The AP: “The British government announced plans Wednesday to ‘name and shame’ people who visit prostitutes and make it illegal to pay for sex with women forced into prostitution ? measures that sex workers say will put more women at risk...

Sex slaves being bought, sold in South Fla.

Posted on November 20, 2008
. . . a drug dealer can sell a drug just once a day, but a trafficker can sell a person five to 20 times a day over and over.

ADF: U.S. Supreme Court should hear NJ coach?s prayer case

Posted on November 20, 2008
ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull: ?We?re in big trouble in this country if a high school football coach can?t even show respect during the prayer of his players . . . "

Arkansas: ?Adult World owners face felony charges?

Posted on November 20, 2008
The Times-Herald reports: “The owners of the two Adult World stores in Widener are facing Class D felony charges of promoting obscene material, according to information filed in the St. Francis County Circuit Clerk?s Office.” Visit Site » Share This

Health Care with a Conscience

Posted on November 20, 2008
. . . And yet, despite this long history of service . . . the future of Catholic health care in the United States is far from assured because of the wide cultural divide between secular elites and those motivated by religious conviction . . .