Religion & Law

?Bush promotes religious freedom at UN gathering?

Posted on November 13, 2008
Reuters: “U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday called religious freedom the foundation of a healthy society and defended the U.S. record in protecting Muslims caught up in foreign conflicts.” Visit Site » Share This

Church support for marriage: nothing but politics?

Posted on November 13, 2008
The AP reports: Carrying signs reading “Love not H8″ and “Did you cast a ballot or a stone?”, a large crowd of gay-marriage supporters gathered outside a Mormon temple to protest the church’s endorsement of a same-sex marriage ban in California ...

Harvard Faculty Council Backs New Undergraduate Stem Cell Concentration

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Harvard Crimson:  The Faculty Council unanimously approved a proposal yesterday for a new concentration focusing on the development and regeneration of the human body . . .  The concentration, called ?Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology,? will focus on how human beings develop from a fertilized egg, how humans are maintained and repaired throughout adulthood, and how [...

Louisiana: Suit seeks to block strip club reopening

Posted on November 13, 2008
2theadvocate.com reports: “Can an Ascension Parish strip club change ownership and still operate in accord with parish ordinances? An attorney representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the right of the parish to issue the license says no...

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Media Have a Proposition for Calif. Churches: You?re Bigots

Posted on November 13, 2008
Brian Fitzpatrick reports on the Culture and Media Institute: “Two days after California voters upheld man-woman marriage by voting for Prop. 8, the media stopped reporting the facts and started beating its ‘civil rights’ drum. “ Visit Site » Share This

Oklahoma Ultrasound Law Put on Hold

Posted on November 13, 2008
Citizen Link reports: “An Oklahoma law that requires a woman to undergo an ultrasound and receive a description of her baby before aborting it has been blocked by court order just days before its scheduled implementation.” Visit Site » Share This

Children Exploited for Sex across the U.S.

Posted on November 13, 2008
Citizen Link reports: “Girls as young as 12 are being exploited for sex in Portland, Ore., according to an NBC investigation.  Teri Williams used to be one of them. ‘You’re a prisoner,’ she told NBC’s Portland affiliate KGW...

PJI Defends Prop. 8 at California Supreme Court

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Pacific Justice Institute has issued a press release that reports:  “It is being argued that voters can never undo judicial decisions - even when the courts insert themselves into public policy debates,” noted PJI Chief Counsel Kevin Snider...

Texas: Proposed Bill Seeks to Offer Women Ultrasounds Before Abortion

Posted on November 13, 2008
KGBT4.com reports:  Forcing a woman to listen to her unborn child’s heart beat and watch their tiny little image on the screen is what one Texas bill aims to do . . .    “Women should know that this isn’t just tissue, it’s a human life,” Labus said...

Anti-Prop. 8 Activists Aim Racial Slurs at California African-Americans - Both Homosexual and Straight

Posted on November 13, 2008
Warning: The report contains offensive language LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Amid the rampant homosexualist protests in California, following the victory of Proposition 8, reports are pouring into homosexual blogs of same-sex “marriage” supporters directing their bile against the African-American community, aiming racist and threatening remarks even against blacks who are themselves homosexual...

California Democratic Legislators Urge Judges to Void Prop. 8

Posted on November 13, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “43 Democratic legislators in both of California’s legislative houses, including the leaders of the Senate and Assembly, filed a brief requesting that state Supreme Court judges void Proposition 8. “ Visit Site » Share This

Abortion and Euthanasia Bringing about the Demise of Catholic Health Care

Posted on November 13, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Believing Catholics are being pushed out of the medical professions, especially in areas like obstetrics, by the insistence of secularised medical services on ‘abortion rights,’ contraception and, now, increasingly physician-assisted euthanasia, claims a prominent Catholic obstetrician...

Ireland: State to contest challenge in European court over abortion laws

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Irish Times reports: “The Government is to contest a legal challenge in the European Court of Human Rights by three women in Ireland against the State’s abortion laws.  The defence to the challenge will be advanced on the basis that the women have not exhausted domestic legal avenues...

Bishops Call Obama-Supported Abortion Rights Bill a Threat to Catholic Church

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Washington Post: “The nation’s Catholic bishops Tuesday approved a statement declaring that if the Democratic-controlled Congress and the incoming Obama administration enact proposed abortion rights legislation, they would see it as an attack on the church...

Russia: 56 major religious organisations to be shut down?

Posted on November 13, 2008
Forum 18 reports:  Following the surprise mid-October publication of a list of 56 centralised religious organisations scheduled for liquidation, apparently for not submitting correct accounts, Russia’s Justice Ministry has refused to reveal what stage any plans for liquidation are at and precisely why the 56 organisations are on the list...

USCCB conference: ?Double-minded bishops?

Posted on November 13, 2008
Julia Duin has this report in the Washington Times suggesting the USCCB is punishing some of the Bishops who have been more outspoken against pro-abortion politicans.  Visit Site » Share This

Boston Ad Agency: ?Life is short. Have an affair?

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Boston Herald reports: “A controversial online dating service that matches up married men and women has launched an ad blitz in Boston - unfazed by a quaint state law that bans adultery.  The Ashley Madison Agency - whose motto is ‘Life is short...

Removal of Food and Hydration from Italian Woman ?Monstrous and Inhuman Murder?: Vatican Prelate

Posted on November 13, 2008
LifeSiteNews reports: “A high-level Vatican official has warned an Italian court that to allow the removal of Eluana Englaro?s feeding tube is a ‘monstrous and inhuman murder.’? Visit Site » Share This

?Playing the race card on gay marriage?

Posted on November 13, 2008
. . . Plainly, declining to change the timeless definition of marriage deprives no one of "the civil rights once denied" to blacks, and it is an absurdity to claim otherwise. It is also a poisonous slur . . .

Michigan: ?Gay rights? protesters disrupt Sunday church

Posted on November 12, 2008
"A radical gay rights group is claiming responsibility for a protest Sunday at Mount Hope Church in Delta Township."

Brazilian government promotes abortion in standardized testing

Posted on November 12, 2008
Pro-life leaders in Brazil have denounced the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for using standardized testing in schools as "an instrument for imposing ideology" in order to make young people see abortion as "a necessary issue."

CA: Art director resigns over support for Proposition 8

Posted on November 12, 2008
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.

Vatican official calls for end to anti-Christian violence in India

Posted on November 12, 2008
Speaking to thousands of the faithful gathered in the city of Bharananganam in India, the prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, called for an end to the anti-Christian violence, ?as a sign of authentic respect for the religious freedom of all the sons and daughters of India...

Georgia: Commission sets fees for operating sexually oriented business in Toccoa

Posted on November 12, 2008
Toccoa city commissioners have made operating a sexually oriented business in the city a little more expensive.

Rod Dreher: ?Religious liberty vs. gay rights? panel

Posted on November 12, 2008
Legal scholars on both sides of the gay marriage issue foresee and irreconcilable clash between the civil rights claims of homosexuals, and the religious liberty claims of traditionalist churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious institutions.

Vatican Official Warns Catholic Charities to Guard Religious Integrity

Posted on November 12, 2008
This week's meeting of the United States bishops received a stern warning from the president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum," that charitable institutions that are recipients of Catholic funds must not sell their souls by supporting causes that offend Catholic morals.

?Schools? liberal indoctrination of future voters?

Posted on November 12, 2008
Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) says youngsters in California and other states are being taught to view the homosexual lifestyle as acceptable. Dacus explains the strategy of activists.

Homosexual Episcopal Bishop Robinson Promotes Dissent among Catholic Priests

Posted on November 12, 2008
Bishop Robinson led a ?confidential retreat? of 75 Roman Catholic Priests in 2005 at which he encouraged their open dissent.

Homosexual ?marriage? ? New York on deck?

Posted on November 12, 2008
The leader of a conservative activist organization predicts the Empire State is on deck to become the next battleground state for homosexual "marriage."

Election Results Signal Shift In Bioethics Debate, Opinion Piece Says

Posted on November 12, 2008
Tuesday's election will be remembered for its "impact on core bioethical topics that have long dominated American domestic politics," including abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research, Arthur Caplan -- director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania -- writes in an MSNBC...

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