Religion & Law

Chuck Norris: Obamacare?s baby death panels

Posted on January 18, 2011
Chuck Norris writing at Townhall: "Given that the 112th Congress is the most pro-life Congress in recent history, now is the time to act and stop government subsidies killing innocent unborn life. I'd even challenge tea parties across our country to fight for the unborn as hard as we do for fiscal frugalness and the Constitution...

High labor costs = fewer jobs

Posted on January 18, 2011
John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis, writing at USA Today: "Most people intuitively know that the worst thing government can do in the middle of the deepest recession in 70 years is enact policies that increase the expected cost of labor...

Political ignorance and federal spending

Posted on January 18, 2011
Ilya Somin writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "Although federal spending was a major political issue in the 2010 campaign and for many months before it, this recently released CBS poll [HT: Dan Mitchell] reveals widespread public ignorance about the distribution of spending between various programs...

OH: Donations influenced Supreme Court decision, doctor says

Posted on January 18, 2011
The Columbus Dispatch: "A doctor says the Ohio Supreme Court caved to political considerations when it refused to hear an appeal of a malpractice case against him, noting that the lawyer on the other side had supported the campaign of then-Chief Justice Eric Brown...

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Barack Obama: Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System

Posted on January 18, 2011
President Barack Obama has this article at the Wall Street Journal.

Family of Mexican teen killed by border agent sues

Posted on January 18, 2011
Associated Press: "A federal lawsuit filed Monday in Texas accuses the U.S. Border Patrol of wrongful death and civil rights violations in an agent's fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican boy in June."

Court suspends Spanish city?s ban on burqas

Posted on January 18, 2011
Associated Press: "A court in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia has suspended a ban by the city of Lleida on face-covering Islamic veils in municipal buildings."

Law professors to defend individual mandate

Posted on January 18, 2011
The Hill: "With a federal district judge in Florida expected to rule this month on a challenge to a key provision in the healthcare reform law, more than 100 legal scholars are defending its constitutionality. The legal scholars are joining with the left-leaning Center for American Progress and American Constitution Society on Tuesday to voice their belief that the reform law's requirement for individuals to purchase health insurance is constitutional...

House freshmen face tough decision on raising the debt limit

Posted on January 18, 2011
The Hill: "House Republican freshmen lawmakers, elected on platforms to reduce spending and the deficit, are saying they're prepared to play hardball and vote against raising the debt ceiling in order to extract an agreement on possible budget cuts."

As Gabrielle Giffords continues recovery, lawyers say Arizona statute won?t endanger seat

Posted on January 18, 2011
Washington Post: "With doctors preparing Giffords for the rehabilitation stage of her recovery, the discovery Monday of a little-known statutory provision in Arizona law raised the prospect of a legal complication that, if left unamended, would endanger her hold on her seat ...

Ohio State student gov?t wants school to stop allowing religious clubs to exclude ?gays,? nonbelievers

Posted on January 18, 2011
The Columbus Dispatch: "Student-government leaders want Ohio State University to stop allowing campus religious groups to ban gay people, non-Christians or others who don't share their values. This week, an advisory council that includes representatives of the undergraduate, professional and graduate student governments will ask Javaune Adams-Gaston, vice president for Student Life, to drop an exemption that allows certain groups to deny membership to those who don't share their 'sincerely held religious beliefs...

UK: Christian hotel owners fined for refusing room to homosexual couple

Posted on January 18, 2011
"A British judge has fined a Christian couple for refusing to allow a gay couple the use of a double room at their hotel in southern England."

Pakistan: Gov?t has no plans to amend blasphemy law

Posted on January 18, 2011
Adnkronos News: "Pakistan's prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday reiterated that the government does not intend to amend the country's controversial blasphemy law, under which a Christian woman has been sentenced to death."

Judge Stephen Reinhardt: Our Constitution and How It Grows

Posted on January 18, 2011
Life to Death: Our Constitution and How It Grow 44 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 391 (2010) "[T]he Constitution is a 'living' document that primarily guarantees rights and privileges to the inhabitants of contemporary America, rights and privileges that may expand as our nation continues to develop...

Telegraph (UK): Right to hold religious beliefs is losing to right not to be offended

Posted on January 18, 2011
"The right to hold religious beliefs, and to act in keeping with one's faith, is being set against the right not to be offended ? and is losing."

Cameroon: ?Controversy over EU project for homosexuals?

Posted on January 18, 2011
Radio Netherlands Worldwide: "Raul Mateus, Head of the Delegation of the European Union in Cameroon, was convened on January 13 by the Minister of External Relations, Henri Eyebe Ayissi. The diplomat was asked to explain the funding behind the Projet d?assistance et d?encadrement des minorités sexuelles (Paemh) (Project for assistance and guidance to sexual minorities), amounting to 300,000 euros...

UK: MEP condemned for asking why sex change operations are ok, but reparative therapy isn?t

Posted on January 18, 2011
BBC: "Roger Helmer used his Twitter page to compare people who undergo sex-change operations with gay people who seek therapy to become heterosexual. The comment has been condemned by gay rights group Stonewall and some users of the social networking site ...

UAE calls for action against Islamophobia

Posted on January 18, 2011
Gulf News: "The UAE urged member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to take action to stop the spread of Islamophobia in the West, a parliamentary leader said yesterday."

UK: Why the Cornish hotel ruling should worry Christians

Posted on January 18, 2011
"But the real difficulty for evangelicals and Christian conservatives does not come in the actual terms of the judgment, but in the background from which it is drawn. In particular, it is the preliminary remarks of the judge that will cause them pain: 'Whatever may have been the position in past centuries it is no longer the case that our laws must, or should automatically reflect the Judaeo-Christian position...

TX: El Paso will not put domestic partner benefits clause on May ballot

Posted on January 18, 2011
KVIA: "El Paso City Council voted Tuesday morning not to bring forward non-discrimination clause that would void a voter-approved ordinance to take away the health insurance of gay and unwed partners of city employees to the voters in May."

?Supreme Court denies conservatives? appeal in D.C. gay marriage case?

Posted on January 18, 2011
All Headline News: "Without comment, the court refused to hear the petition from conservatives led by Bishops Harry Jackson and the Alliance Defense Fund seeking a referendum on the District of Columbia's gay marriage law."

?Supreme Court declines to hear case targeting D.C. marriage equality?

Posted on January 18, 2011
SDLGN: "'For almost two years, the National Organization for Marriage and the Alliance Defense Fund, along with Bishop Harry Jackson, have fought a losing battle to shamelessly harm gay and lesbian couples in D.C. who seek nothing more than to share in the rights and responsibilities of marriage...

Expert: Abortion has led to 300,000 extra breast cancer deaths in U.S.

Posted on January 18, 2011
LifeSiteNews: "Abortion has led to 300,000 additional breast cancer deaths in the United States since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized the act, says an expert on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link. Dr. Joel Brind, professor of endocrinology at Baruch College, City University of New York and a director at the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, made this assertion this week in a press release by the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer...

India: Residential complex cannot be used as religious building

Posted on January 18, 2011
Sify: "A residential complex cannot be used as a religious building, the Gujarat High Court has ruled and stated that doing so would amount to a breach of the Bombay Provincial Municipalities Act."

SD: Bill would tighten rules for charities

Posted on January 18, 2011
Argus Leader: "South Dakota lawmakers will consider a proposal that would strip the tax-exempt status of charitable organizations that do not have a presence in the state."

Sikhs carrying kirpans banned from Quebec legislature

Posted on January 18, 2011
CTV: "Several Sikhs were denied entry into the Quebec legislature today. Security officials at Quebec's assemblee nationale refused to let them in because they were wearing kirpans. The ceremonial dagger, worn by some religious Sikhs, has been the subject of much debate in Quebec...

UN refugee agency concerned over Sweden?s reported plan to deport Iraqis

Posted on January 18, 2011
UN News Centre: "The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern over reports that Sweden planned to send about 25 Iraqis back to Baghdad tomorrow, saying that a number of those scheduled to be deported belong to religious and ethnic groups that have been targeted in recent attacks...

Wyoming: Bill to prohibit marriage redefinition advances

Posted on January 18, 2011
"With the 7-2 approval of House Bill 74 by the Education Committee ? which in the past hasn't been assigned gay-marriage bills ? the legislation now must pass three votes by the full House before it would head to the Senate."

Gov. Christie nominates 9/11 attorney Sohail Mohammed for Superior Court judgeship

Posted on January 18, 2011
New Jersey News Room: "Noteworthy is the nomination of Sohail Mohammed of Clifton to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County. Mohammed was counsel to many detainees picked up by federal authorities in the aftermath of 9/11 terrorist attacks. Mohammed gained the respect of authorities for trying to improve communications between them and the Muslim community after Sept...

NJ Senate to vote on creation of state?s first school voucher program

Posted on January 18, 2011
MyCentralJersey.com: "A bill that would create the state's first school voucher program and offer scholarships to students in low-performing school districts is scheduled to be considered Thursday in a key Senate committee."

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