Religion & Law

Proposition 8: The inside scoop on an unprecedented battle

Posted on October 30, 2008
Frank Schubert has been involved in over 30 ballot initiatives in his lifetime but he?s never experienced anything like Proposition 8. Yesterday, I was asked to be part of a blogger conference call with Schubert who heads up the Yes on 8 movement

Pope To Canada: ?I Know it is Possible? For You to Turn to a Culture of Life and Respect Natural Marriage

Posted on October 30, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “Today Pope Benedict XVI addressed Canadians as he greeted the new Canadian Ambassador to the Holy See, Anne Leahy. In his address, the Holy Father noted his concern for Canada’s growing lack of respect for life and family, despite the fact that Canadian culture has Catholicism as one of its cornerstones and [...

Video: Planned Parenthood admits infanticide happens

Posted on October 30, 2008
"Students for Life of America released a video this morning that puts lie to the notion that late-term abortions do not result in infanticide when babies survive the abortion process . . ."

Ohio: Group wants Malabar?s Nativity removed

Posted on October 30, 2008
MansfieldNewsJournal.com reports: . . . An activist group says an annual Nativity scene at Malabar Farm State Park violates separation of church and state and should be discontinued. The Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisc., has asked Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers to determine whether Malabar Farm State Park?s display is legal ...

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ACLU of Idaho names new director

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Olympian reports: “. . . Monica Hopkins is director of development and communications at Zoo Boise. She has previously worked for Planned Parenthood of Idaho and as executive director of Fund for Idaho, an organization that raises money for progressive groups ...

ADF: Montgomery County voters ask court to give back their right to vote on controversial ?gender identity? law

Posted on October 30, 2008
ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY October 30, 2008 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom ADF attorneys available to media after hearing on Md. voters? rights Montgomery County voters ask court to give back their right to vote on controversial ?gender identity? law WHO: ADF Litigation Counsel Amy Smith and ADF Senior Legal Counsel Austin [...

Prop. 8 supporters contend with vandals, city statute

Posted on October 30, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: . . . Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) senior counsel Erik Stanley got a call from Calvary Chapel Chino Hills explaining their plight. “They related to us that the city of Chino Hills was threatening to fine home owners $25 a day for putting ‘Support Proposition 8′ signs in the yards of their houses and [...

Can Religious Groups Receiving Federal Funds Hire Only Co-Religionists? An Issue that Divides Obama and McCain Is the Subject of a Newly-Released Department of Justice Memorandum

Posted on October 30, 2008
Marci Hamilton has this commentary on Findlaw that begins: Recently, the United States Department of Justice released a controversial memo produced by its Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and dated June 29, 2007. The memo argues that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) requires the federal government to permit religious groups receiving federal funds from [...

Islamists stone Somali woman to death for adultery

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Independent reports: The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up to her neck for the execution late yesterday in front of hundreds of people in a square in the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August. Stones were hurled at her head and she was pulled out three times to [...

Israel: Livni to introduce ?civil marriage? bill

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Jerusalem Post reports: “Kadima intends to introduce a bill to legalize civil marriage in Israel . . . The bill would enable some 300,000 Israelis who are currently seen by the state as ‘without religious affiliation,’ and as such cannot be married by the Rabbinate, to get married in Israel...

California?s fight over marriage hints at changes in the culture wars

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Economist reports: “Proposition 8?s supporters have assembled an extraordinarily broad coalition. Although much of the campaign?s ideological heat comes from evangelicals, much of its money comes from Mormons. More donations to Protectmarriage...

Barack Obama?s Health Care Plan Covers Abortion, Would Require Tax-Funding

Posted on October 30, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A leading pro-life group has uncovered a questionnaire the campaign of Barack Obama filed with a pro-abortion web site. The survey makes it clear that Obama’s national health care plan would include abortions and that they would likely be funded at taxpayer expense...

Obama assisted Laurence Tribe with abortion research at Harvard Law

Posted on October 30, 2008
David Bernstein reports on the Volokh Conspiracy. Visit Site » Share This

Arizona Supreme Court Will Review School Voucher Decision

Posted on October 30, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports that the Arizona Supreme Court will review a challenge to private school vouchers pending in Cain v. Horne, (Case No. CV-08-0189-PR). The East Valley Tribune reports: “The Arizona Supreme Court will decide whether parents can use tax dollars to send their children to private or parochial schools ...

Florida: ?Man Shot Outside Strip Club?

Posted on October 29, 2008
The AP reports: “The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is seeking a man it says was involved in a shooting early today outside a U.S. 19 strip club. The shooting happened at about 2 a.m. outside Calendar Girls, 16309 U.S. 19 in Hudson.” Visit Site » Share This

Las Vegas Casinos Topless Pools A Step Toward Stripper Clubs

Posted on October 29, 2008
Warning: offensive ads and/or photos OnlineCasinoAdvisory.com reports: The hope is that the lure of exposed female flesh will bring new gambling patrons to the casinos. Las Vegas has long prized its nickname, Sin City. But, even though gambling and sex are big business in Nevada, the mixing of the two has been frowned upon...

Alabama: Blaze at strip club ruled arson

Posted on October 29, 2008
The Huntsville Times reports: “Huntsville Fire & Rescue spokesman Tim Cartwright said investigators have determined that the fire at Fantasies Gentleman’s Club was intentionally set, but no arrests have been made in connection to the fire...

Billings strip club closes

Posted on October 29, 2008
Montanasnewsstation.com reports: The Billings City Council passed a new ordinance on Monday night that will regulate sexually oriented businesses in the Magic City. The decision comes just days after a downtown strip club closed its doors and the council voted unanimously to restrict where sexually oriented businesses can operate in Billings ...

UK: Top Muslim doctor faces sack for saying ?transsexuals are twisted and society needs protection from gays?

Posted on October 29, 2008
The Daily Mail reports: A leading Muslim doctor called for gays to feel ‘the stick of the law’ to protect society from their ‘ravages’, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday. Dr Muhammad Siddiq wrote to a magazine for GPs accusing homosexuals of spreading disease with their ‘ irresponsible behaviour’, it was claimed...

Christian Aid Worker in Somalia Beheaded for Converting to Christianity from Islam

Posted on October 29, 2008
Assist News Service reports: Among at least 24 aid workers killed in Somalia this year was one who was beheaded last month specifically for converting from Islam to Christianity, among other charges, according to an eyewitness . . . According to Compass Direct, the five masked men emerged carrying guns, carrying Somali swords and dragging the handcuffed [...

Pro-Life Activists Arrested at College of Alameda

Posted on October 29, 2008
The Christian Newswire reports: “Three college-age members of the Survivors Campus Life Tour were unlawfully arrested yesterday at the College of Alameda, California, while handing out literature on the public campus. They have been in custody for over 12 hours...

Ed Whelan: Obama and the Supreme Court: What?s really at stake

Posted on October 29, 2008
Ed Whelan has this commentary on National Review that begins: If America?s citizens care to wake up and pay attention before they elect as president a sweet-talking, moderate-posing left-wing ideologue with a history of alliances with anti-American radicals, one of the several matters they ought to think seriously about is the future of the Supreme Court...

ADF: Lawsuit challenges $18 million in contracts awarded to Colo. abortionists

Posted on October 29, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys and allied attorneys filed suit Wednesday, asking a Colorado court to cancel $18 million in illegal state contracts awarded over the last year to a Planned Parenthood affiliate and a Boulder abortion provider.

Parents queue to select baby gender

Posted on October 29, 2008
In an earlier conversation it was suggested any extra foetuses could be "taken out" or aborted if I did get pregnant with twins or triplets . . .

Conn. AG Releases Series Of Legal Opinions Related To Same-Sex ?Marriage? Ruling

Posted on October 29, 2008
"Although no state law requires justices of the peace to marry any particular couple, they may not refuse to perform a marriage for discriminatory reasons, in violation of the Connecticut Constitution . . . "

NYLCU lauds Kingston school district for military recruiter restrictions

Posted on October 29, 2008
The Times Herald-Record reports: A decision to limit military recruitment in Kingston schools is being lauded by a civil liberties group and accepted by military recruiters. Last week, the Kingston school board approved a policy allowing recruiters in the guidance office only when they have an appointment with a student...

Virginia: Groups Prepare to Sue Over Poll Place Clothing Ban

Posted on October 29, 2008
The Washington Post reports: Three groups plan to sue the state to challenge a controversial State Board of Elections policy that bans the wearing of buttons, T-shirts and other clothes with political messages in polling places. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, the Rutherford Institute and the ACLU of Virginia say the policy [...

Churches are looking at hard times

Posted on October 29, 2008
The AP reports: On a recent Sunday, the Rev. Richard Mahan scrapped a sermon on forgiveness. He felt compelled instead to address the economic turmoil battering the nation. “Everybody’s facing hard times,” he told worshippers at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Charleston...

Neb. governor accelerates fix of safe-haven law

Posted on October 29, 2008
The AP reports: “Deciding he could wait no longer to address what has become a state embarrassment, Gov. Dave Heineman said Wednesday he will call a special legislative session to amend Nebraska’s loosely worded safe-haven law, which in just a few months has allowed parents to abandon nearly two dozen children as old as 17 [...

Unmasking Pro-abortion Congressmen, Senators, and Candidates for Public Office

Posted on October 29, 2008
Priests for Life has posted a large ad at the top of the Drudge Report that leads to this web page and open letter. Visit Site » Share This

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