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Michigan: Imprisoned pastor says free speech violated

Posted on November 14, 2008
The ACLU said it asked the state appeals court Wednesday to release the Rev. Edward Pinkney on bail while he appeals a probation violation. Lawyers claim his free-speech rights were trampled in Berrien County.

UK: ?An Age of Barbarism?

Posted on November 14, 2008
Twenty years ago, I started writing about the breakdown of the family, the systematic undermining of moral constraints and the ascendancy of ?lifestyle choice?, a doctrine which forbade condemnation of any lifestyle as harmful.

Glen Lavy: California reaction shows the pretense of tolerance is over

Posted on November 14, 2008
California voters approved Proposition 8 through a fair and legitimate electoral process, but you wouldn't know that from the supposedly tolerant groups that opposed it. In America, we respect the results of fair elections. We should respect the results of the Proposition 8 vote just like we do all the other campaigns.

NY: Traveling evangelist sues Ithaca over noise ordinance

Posted on November 14, 2008
A traveling evangelist claims in a lawsuit that police in Ithaca wouldn't let him preach in a public commons even after he showed them a federal court decision saying the local noise ordinance they cited was unconstitutional.

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The Politics of Justice

Posted on November 14, 2008
But if Posner is concerned with judges making decisions that accurately reflect factual circumstances, a truly federal system, with a reduced role for federal judicial archons, is the better course.

Richard John Neuhaus: The Coming Kulturkampf

Posted on November 14, 2008
In this contest of coming months and years, it seems certain that cooperation between Catholics and evangelical Protestants will be greatly strengthened.

Eugene Volokh: Should California disclose contributors to Proposition 8?

Posted on November 14, 2008
"the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling disclosures [of campaign contributions] by a minor political party that can show a 'reasonable probability' that the compelled disclosures will subject those identified to 'threats, harassment, or reprisals...

Same-sex ?marriage? protests planned for Saturday

Posted on November 14, 2008
Thousands of gay-marriage supporters plan to take to the streets Saturday to protest gay-marriage bans in California, Arizona and Florida.

Is Obama right empathy should be a core criterion for selection of judges?

Posted on November 13, 2008
Julie Hilden has this commentary on Findlaw. She writes:� . . . Now that Obama is President-elect, the�Phoenix Business Journal�reports, the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, Jon Kyl, has taken the position that “if Obama goes with empathetic judges who do not base their decisions on the rule of law and legal precedents but instead the factors in [...

58 same-sex marriage licenses issued in Conn.

Posted on November 13, 2008
Newsday reports: “A partial tally by city and town clerks in�Connecticut�shows they issued 58 marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Wednesday, the first day that gays and lesbians could get married in the state. “ Visit Site » Share This

?Cross-Bearing Elderly Woman Attacked by Gay Marriage Supporters;? Cross is Stomped

Posted on November 13, 2008
"An elderly woman bearing a cross who attended a gay marriage protest to voice her support of the California ban was attacked by demonstrators and may now press charges."

?Small Businesses Get Caught In Gay-Marriage Battle?

Posted on November 13, 2008
Raymund Flandez reports in the Wall Street Journal: “Backers of gay marriage have also put up a Web site calling for the blacklisting of individuals and organizations that donated money to Proposition 8, saying ‘Please do not patronize them...

California Bishops Comment on the Aftermath of the Passage of Proposition

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Business Wire carries the text of the report including this: “We believe that marriage, which predates both Church and government, is an institution that arose from the reality that the union of a man and a woman is necessary for the continuation of the human race...

Council of Europe Gives Guidance on Religious Symbols and Hate Speech

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “The Council of Europe�announced�yesterday that it is publishing Manuals to offer guidance on two controversial issues.” The post provides more information about: The�Manual on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Public Areas and The Manual on Hate Speech...

Suit Challenges Washington State Limits On Special Ed In Religious Schools

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Religion Clause reports: “In Washington state, three families represented by the Institute for Justice have filed suit against the state’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction challenging regulations that require religious school students to travel off premises to obtain special education services...

Secular Coalition asks Obama to issue rules against proselytizing in the military

Posted on November 13, 2008
Religion Clause Blog indicates: �”Stars and Stripes�reported yesterday that the Secular Coalition for America is asking the incoming Obama administration to issue new rules against proselytizing in the military.” Visit Site » Share This

Angrier response to Prop. 8 steps up

Posted on November 13, 2008
LA Times reports:� . . . But the demonstrations also have raised questions about whether the in-your-face approach will alienate voters, who may be asked one day to approve gay marriage. Twice in the last eight years, voters have rejected it. “I think the No on 8 forces have devolved into mob justice,” said Jeff Flint, a [...

Theater official quits in face of protests for supporting Prop. 8

Posted on November 13, 2008
The AP reports:� �The artistic director at California’s largest nonprofit musical theater company resigned Wednesday amid protests over his donation to a campaign to ban gay marriage in the state . . .� Eckern said he “chose to act upon my belief that the traditional definition of marriage should be preserved” but had no idea his contribution [...

Fourth suit challenging Prop. 8 alleges U.S. Constitution violations

Posted on November 13, 2008
Gay City News reports:� . . . Even before the groups opposing Prop 8 conceded on November 6, three lawsuits had been filed in the California Supreme Court, arguing that the measure had been invalidly enacted and asking the court to issue an order blocking it from taking effect...

Obama Will Change Balance on Courts Quickly

Posted on November 13, 2008
Newsmax reports:� It?s a given that Barack Obama will change the balance on the courts to a liberal judicial outlook. What is surprising is how quickly he could do that. Because Democrats dragged their heels on President Bush?s judicial nominations, 14 seats are open on appeals courts or will be by the end of January...

Atheists roll out anti-God campaign

Posted on November 13, 2008
CBN reports: “Just in time for Christmas, a group is rolling out a new marketing campaign: bus ads that embrace atheism during the holidays.�The American Humanist Association revealed Tuesday that it will soon run ads on the sides of buses in the nation’s capital that read, ‘Why believe in a god? Just be good for [...

Illinois: Nativity scene in state Capitol gets green light from ACLU

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Pantagraph reports: “The American Civil Liberties Union says it won’t fight a plan to erect a Christian nativity scene inside the Capitol Rotunda. After a month-long review, the Illinois chapter of the ACLU said Daniel Zanoza’s proposal to erect a display inside the Statehouse depicting the birth of Jesus is a form of [...

County of LA Join Lawsuit Against Prop 8, ACLU Laywer Makes a Great Case

Posted on November 13, 2008
LAIST.com reports:� California Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8, which eliminated the right of gay couples to marry in California. They joined the City and County of San Francisco, County of Santa Clara and City of Los Angeles in the case. “Some may ask why, as a county supervisor, I would get so directly involved in this [...

California: ACLU sues district over student paper

Posted on November 13, 2008
The San Diego Union Tribune reports: “The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Fallbrook Union High School District, saying that Fallbrook High’s principal violated the free speech of students when he censored two articles, eliminated the newspaper’s faculty adviser position, cut the journalism class and killed publication of the�Tomahawk�newspaper...

Church tax exemptions: privilege or right?

Posted on November 13, 2008
Ron Johnson, Jr. has this commentary on U.S. News and World report. He writes:� Who is in charge of the pulpit? The church or the IRS? That is the question that recently led me and other pastors to deliver sermons on the subject of the upcoming elections, despite tax rules used to stifle speech about candidates...

South Carolina: Priest advises penance for Obama vote

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Greenville News reports: “The priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in downtown Greenville has told parishioners that those who voted for Barack Obama placed themselves under divine judgment because of his stance on abortion and shouldn’t receive Holy Communion until they’ve done penance...

Calif. court: Christian student free to speak as case proceeds

Posted on November 13, 2008
Yuba College officials threatened the student, Ryan Dozier, with arrest or expulsion for sharing his faith on campus in violation of college policies that dramatically restricted free speech.

Police in NY shrug off court order, deny religious free speech

Posted on November 13, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys have filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Ithaca on behalf of a Christian man denied his free speech rights even after he showed police officers a court order prohibiting them from enforcing an unconstitutional ?noise? ordinance.

Ted Olsen: Can a display be government speech without the government actually endorsing the message?

Posted on November 13, 2008
"It sounds like a big church-state case, but whatever the Supreme Court decides, it probably won't affect church-state issues all that much. Both sides agree that this is really a free-speech case, not a religion case. Then again . . . "

Court again struggles with First Amendment doctrines

Posted on November 13, 2008
Tony Mauro reports on the First Amendment Center that begins:� The Supreme Court?s discontent with its own First Amendment doctrines appeared to grow yesterday, as justices grappled with the case of a Utah city that said yes to a Ten Commandments monument on city land in 1971 but no to a New Age religious sect with [...

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