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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Defends Campaign Ad

Posted on November 19, 2008
Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom (1 South 6th Street, Terre Haute, IN 47807-3510) has issued this press release indicating: Today, Justice Gableman of the Wisconsin Supreme Court filed his response to a complaint charging that he violated the Wisconsin Judicial Code of Conduct...

Stem cells restore hearing, vision in animals

Posted on November 19, 2008
Reuters reports: “Stem cells from tiny embryos can be used to restore lost hearing and vision in animals, researchers said Tuesday in what they believe is a first step toward helping people. One team repaired hearing in guinea pigs using human bone marrow stem cells, while another grew functioning eyes in tadpoles using frog cells...

Democratic officials: Daschle accepts HHS post

Posted on November 19, 2008
The AP reports: “Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday.” Visit Site » Share This

Ted Stevens? defeated in Alaska, Dems close to filibuster proof majority

Posted on November 19, 2008
The AP reports: . . . It also moves Senate Democrats within two seats of a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority and gives President-elect Barack Obama a stronger hand when he assumes office on Jan. 20 . . . Democrats now hold 58 Senate seats, when two independents who align with Democrats are included, with undecided races in Minnesota [...

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Texas State School Board Should Uphold Sound Science, Reject Creationism, Says Americans United

Posted on November 19, 2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has issued this press release that begins: “Americans United for Separation of Church and State today urged the Texas State Board of Education to stick to sound science and reject creationist concepts when revising its science standards...

Britain Grapples With Role for Islamic Justice

Posted on November 19, 2008
The New York Times describing a Shariah divorce reports: “This is Islamic justice, British style. Despite a raucous national debate over the limits of religious tolerance and the pre-eminence of British law, the tenets of Shariah, or Islamic law, are increasingly being applied to everyday life in cities across the country...

Indiana: Clergy-led prayer returns to House

Posted on November 19, 2008
The Indianapolis Star reports: The tradition of having different members of the clergy say a prayer had stopped in January 2006 after a federal judge ruled that sectarian prayers that favored one religion over another were unconstitutional. The lawsuit that prompted that ruling was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana...

Lawsuits Proliferate Demanding Proof of Obama?s Natural-Born Citizenship before Electoral Vote Count

Posted on November 19, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “All the cases reported to have failed were dismissed due to the plaintiff’s lack of standing, without the court actually investigating the complaint. However, as Keyes was on the November ballot as the American Independent Party presidential candidate, his is the first case in which the plaintiff is a candidate who lost the [...

Leftist Party in Sweden Proposes to Force Christian Pastors to Perform Homosexual ?Weddings?

Posted on November 19, 2008
LifeSiteNews: “Sweden?s Left Party, which holds 22 out of 349 parliamentary seats, is advocating legislation that will force pastors to perform homosexual ‘marriages,’ should homosexual ‘marriage’ be legalized in the country...

?Homophobic? Speech Ruling Overturned in France

Posted on November 19, 2008
LifeSiteNews: A judgment against a French parliamentarian for “homophobic” hate speech was overturned by the nation’s Court of Appeals last week. Deputy Christian Vanneste was convicted in 2006 of “homophobic” speech after stating in 2004 that “homosexuality is inferior to heterosexuality...

Christian Prayer Group Sexually and Physically Assaulted by Homosexual Mob

Posted on November 19, 2008
"A mob of homosexuals sexually and physically assaulted a group of Christians praying together in the city's Castro District last week, in apparent retaliation for the recent defeat of homosexual marriage in California."

Chinese Woman Threatened with Forced Abortion has been Released after International Pressure

Posted on November 19, 2008
John-Henry Westen reports on LifeSiteNews.com: “Arzigul Tursun, the Muslim Uyghur woman who was caught fleeing from authorities while more than six months pregnant was released from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region where she was supposed to undergo a forced abortion...

Indiana: ?BE GODS? plate is OK, BMV says

Posted on November 19, 2008
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles commissioner today backed off its denial of a woman?s request for a personalized license plate reading ?BE GODS.? . . .

Delaware woman?s parents now in agreement: their daughter must live

Posted on November 19, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have reached a favorable settlement in a lawsuit that had pitted father against mother over the life of their 24-year-old daughter who suffers from severe brain injury.

Obama Urged Not to Fund UNFPA After Chinese Woman Escapes Forced Abortion

Posted on November 19, 2008
Life News reports: “Now that woman in northwestern China who was six months pregnant has escaped a forced abortion, pro-life advocates are restarting their plea for incoming president Barack [...]

Kathleen Parker: ?Armband religion is killing the Republican party?

Posted on November 19, 2008
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.

Secular morality: The reasons for banning abortion

Posted on November 19, 2008
My principal objection, that abortion ends a human life, is perfectly consistent with my secular point of view.

Dale Carpenter: ?Gay marriage in D.C. next year??

Posted on November 19, 2008
"Gay marriage in D.C. next year? Yes, says openly gay D.C. city council member David Catania, a former Republican who holds an at-large seat."

Eugene Volokh: The Declaration of Independence contemplates a God who is both Creator and Judge

Posted on November 19, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy that quotes the Declaration of Independence and reaches this conclusion: “God is thus not just Nature’s God and the Creator, but also the ‘Supreme Judge of the world,’ to whom people may appeal to judge or witness ‘the rectitude of [their] intentions,’ and whose ‘Divine Providence’ [...

Maryland County Residents Urge Council To Reject RLUIPA Settlement

Posted on November 19, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports that some residents are urging the the County to reject a proposed settlement to permit Riverdale Baptist Church to construct an expanded campus for its Arundel Bay Christian Academy. Visit Site » Share This

NJ forces eHarmony to provide same-sex matches

Posted on November 19, 2008
The California-based company will begin providing same-sex matches under as part of a settlement with New Jersey's Civil Rights Division.

AG Choice Eric Holder Has Little Record On Religious Freedom Issues, Except Hate Crimes

Posted on November 19, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “Barack Obama’s reported choice for Attorney General, Eric Holder, appears to have little record on church-state or religious freedom issues. The one aspect of his past record that arguably relates to these issues is his support for strong hate crimes enforcement and legislation...

Minnesota: Magistrate Says IRS Subpoena for Megachurch Records Was Improperly Issued

Posted on November 19, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “Today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that a federal magistrate judge in Minneapolis has recommended that the court refuse to enforce an IRS subpoena for financial documents issued to Living Word Christian Center” on grounds that it was not approved by a high level official as required by the Internal Revenue [...

Vt. Senator to reintroduce bill to redefine marriage

Posted on November 19, 2008
"Vermont lawmakers will once again be looking at the idea of allowing gay couples to marry. Senator John Campbell says he plans to introduce a bill in January that legalizes same-sex marriage."

LA Times: ?Healing the Gay/Black Divide?

Posted on November 19, 2008
The LA Times has this editorial that indicates: “Many in the gay community believed, perhaps naively, that shared minority status would create a sense of sympathy between the two groups, and that casting gay marriage as a benchmark in civil rights history would cement that bond...

Evan Wolfson: ?Next Steps in California and the Country to End Discrimination in Marriage?

Posted on November 19, 2008
Google News carries this comment by Evan Wolfson that begins: “Peaceful protest is an important and time-honored way of raising understanding and mobilizing people to action. Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 March on Washington, brought the method of non-violent witness and demonstration to Dr...

Eric Holder Said to Be Top Pick for Justice Dept.

Posted on November 19, 2008
The Washington Post: “Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next U.S. attorney general, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice...

Massachusetts: IRS raids Methuen official?s strip club and home

Posted on November 18, 2008
The Boston Globe reports: Methuen officials took their fair share of ribbing when the superintendent of parks and recreation opened a strip club named Kittens in Salisbury. They took more heat when the police chief was accused of mismanaging federal grants, verbally abusing officers, and ordering officers to install surveillance equipment at his sister’s house...

South Carolina Investigators: Strip Club In Chester County Front For Prostitution

Posted on November 18, 2008
WSOCTV.com reports: “Undercover detectives said Moon River, a strip club near Richburg, was a front for the prostitution ring. They raided the club at about 12 a.m. Saturday.” Visit Site » Share This

Evidence of Employment Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity: Complaints Filed with State Enforcement Agencies 1999-2007

Posted on November 18, 2008
The Williams Institute report is here. It is summarized: To more accurately measure the effect of anti-discrimination laws, this report compares sex, race, and sexual orientation complaint rates through a population-adjusted model. Today, twenty states and the District of Columbia prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation...

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