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Brazil foresees population slump

Posted on October 09, 2008
The BBC reports: Brazil’s population is getting older and will start to decline by the year 2030 a new government report has found. The study from Brazil’s Economic Research Institute attributes the change to fertility rates that have fallen sharply over the last 40 years...

Albert Mohler: ?Spare the Rod? America?s Parents Just Won?t Get With the Science?

Posted on October 09, 2008
This post appears on Albert Mohler’s Blog. Mohler writes: . . . Dr. Kazdin is John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University and director of the university’s Parenting Center and Child Conduct Clinic. Writing at Slate...

Washington: ?ACLU Supports Death With Dignity Initiative?

Posted on October 09, 2008
The ACLU of Washington reports: “The ACLU of Washington is supporting a statewide ballot initiative that would give terminally ill patients the ability to end their lives without unbearable suffering or indignity.” Visit Site » Share This

Group Accuses Three Law Schools of Bias Against Whites

Posted on October 09, 2008
The ABA reports: “In an earlier report, the group [ie. the Center for Equal Opportunity] says the odds ratio favoring African-American law school applicants over whites was 250 to 1 at the University of Arizona and 1,115 to 1 at Arizona State, according to another press release...

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New Obscenity Charges Raise Questions in Internet Age

Posted on October 09, 2008
PC World contains this article by Grant Gross lamenting the problems purportedly caused by the Department of Justice’s recent application of obscenity restrictions that rely on local community standards. At least the article correctly observes that obscenity laws have been applied in only the most extreme hardcore cases...

New AZ Supreme Court ruling fails families battling sex shops

Posted on October 09, 2008
Today the Arizona Supreme Court issued a disappointing ruling in a case challenging the Arizona law that limits the hours of operation of sexually-oriented businesses.

Holy war strikes India

Posted on October 09, 2008
The Independent reports: “Mrs Panda and thousands of others like her are victims of the worst communal violence between Hindus and Christians that India has seen for decades. For a country that boasts of its mutual religious tolerance, the long-simmering tension that has erupted in the Kandhamal district of the state of Orissa ? a [...

Too Much Juris-Prudence? A European Court Punts on Abortion

Posted on October 09, 2008
"For years, the European Court of Human Rights, established to uphold rights to life, privacy, freedom of religion and the like, has essentially turned a blind eye to Ireland?s abortion laws, considered among the most restrictive in Europe."

Two Constitutionalisms in Europe: Pursuing an Articulation of the European and International Legal Orders

Posted on October 09, 2008
Whilst having long been the object of scholarly examination, the relationship between the European legal order and the international legal order has recently attracted renewed attention following the problems caused by the implementation by EU Member States of the measures adopted within the framework of the UN system of collective security.

LA Times: Scientists explore new source of stem cells

Posted on October 09, 2008
The stem cells offer another potential alternative to embryonic stem cells for researchers who aim to treat diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's by replacing damaged or malfunctioning cells with custom-grown replacements.

Rhode Island - ?The first separation of church and state?

Posted on October 09, 2008
The big news here is that it is no longer treason to challenge the Anglican church. Religious freedom is not heresy (so long, of course, as one's religion is still Christian), or political treason, or anything but a private, personal matter.

Robert Knight: ?How 25 Years of Gay Activism in Hollywood Has Paid Off?

Posted on October 09, 2008
Townhall carries this commentary by Robert Knight, who writes: A new Eye on Culture report from the Culture and Media Institute, ?Lavender Propaganda,? reveals the depth and breadth of the current media campaign to promote homosexuality to average Americans...

Mandatory Homosexual Indoctrination in Grade School Survives after Supreme Court Turns Down Case

Posted on October 09, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “After mounting a ferocious battle to preserve traditional marriage values, David Parker could only watch helplessly as the United States Supreme Court left intact a lower court ruling that allowed Massachusetts schools to promote homosexuality in the classroom without telling parents or allowing them to opt out...

Chinese Muslims? Release Into U.S. Blocked for Now

Posted on October 09, 2008
The AP reports: A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What’s a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years? That in essence was the Bush administration’s argument to a federal appeals court [...

Parenting ?Rights? for Homosexuals: How We Got There and its Implications for all Families

Posted on October 09, 2008
Helen Alvare has this article on the Culture of Life Foundation website. She writes: The California Supreme Court decided several weeks ago that doctors specializing in assisted reproductive technologies may not assert their religious freedom as a defense to California?s Civil Rights law requirement that businesses provide services without discrimination on the basis of clients? sexual [...

Supreme Court denied certiorari in numerous cases of interest on Monday

Posted on October 09, 2008
Yesterday (Oct. 6th) the Supreme Court turned down hundreds of appeal petitions without comment. Among them were several cases of interest...

California: Law Professors Clash Over Marriage, Churches? Tax-Exempt Status

Posted on October 09, 2008
The Recorder reports on an ad campaign by supporters of the California marriage amendment, Proposition 8 that is raising some heated arguments. The ad is described: The commercial depicts a pig-tailed girl excitedly telling her horrified mother how she learned in school “that a prince can marry a prince and I can marry a princess...

Mormons renew calls for Calif. marriage amendment

Posted on October 09, 2008
The AP reports: Mormons are being asked by their church leaders to step up their already considerable efforts to pass a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California. Senior elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a televised appeal to members Wednesday night and laid out a week-by-week strategy for boosting Mormon [...

McDonald?s pledges neutrality in culture battle

Posted on October 09, 2008
"Randy Sharp is director of special projects with AFA. He says McDonald's has pledged to remain neutral in the culture war surrounding homosexual marriage . . . "

Summer Associates Tell Firms: Turn Up the Heat

Posted on October 09, 2008
The American Lawyer reports: Summer clerks in recent years have shown an inclination for doing “real” work. But the 2008 class was an even more no-nonsense bunch: What they seemed to prize more than anything was the chance to test their legal skills on serious matters...

California: Bride and Groom Court Battle Not Yet Over

Posted on October 09, 2008
The Pacific Justice Institute has issued this press release that reports: . . . Late last week, the state announced that it will again change the forms, effective Nov. 17, to allow individuals to identify themselves on marriage licenses as either “Groom,” “Bride,” “First Person” or “Second Person...

Teen Sex: The Parent Factor

Posted on October 09, 2008
The Heritage Foundation offers backgrounder #2194 by Christine Kim. It reports: Many policymakers, health professionals, and “safe sex” advocates respond to these troubling statistics by demanding more comprehensive sex education and broader access to contraceptives for minors...

Chicago: ?Gay-friendly high school may open here in 2010?

Posted on October 09, 2008
The Chicago Sun-Times reports: “A ‘gay-friendly” Chicago public high school that will weave gay and lesbian ‘heroes’ — from James Baldwin to Gertrude Stein — into its curriculum was among 20 new school proposals unveiled Wednesday...

Ohio teen charged for sending nude phone photos

Posted on October 09, 2008
The AP reports: “Police in Newark, Ohio, have arrested a 15-year-old girl on juvenile child pornography charges for allegedly sending nude cell phone photos of herself to classmates.” The report indicates that charges are also being considered for the recipients of the photos...

U.S. Supreme Court cert petition: Parents challenge Wisconsin social workers? private school intrusion

Posted on October 09, 2008
The First Freedoms Foundation has issued a press release (Oct. 2nd) that reports: First Freedoms case Michael C. v. Gresbach has gone to the United States Supreme Court. Attorneys Michael Dean and Stephen Crampton represent Michael and Cherita C. and their children, and have filed a brief on their behalf ...

Study: Quarter of Oregon Assisted Suicide Victims Depressed, Still Got Drugs

Posted on October 09, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A new study shows about one-fourth of the people killed in assisted suicides in Oregon were depressed, yet they received lethal cocktails anyway. Researchers at the Oregon [...]

Massachusetts: ?Pregnancy pact? school to give out contraceptives

Posted on October 09, 2008
The AP reports: “Schools in the Massachusetts city where girls reportedly made a “pregnancy pact” will allow contraceptives to be distributed - with parental consent. Gloucester (GLAW’-ster) school board Chairman Greg Verga says the vote Wednesday night was unanimous...

Oregon Court of Appeals: Frozen embryos are property and may be destroyed

Posted on October 09, 2008
"The Oregon Court of Appeals has ordered six frozen embryos destroyed after ruling they can be treated as personal property in a divorce."

UK: TimesOnline rants against the possibility of homosexual chastity

Posted on October 09, 2008
"The Catholic Church condemns contraception as intrinsically bad but few Catholics take any notice. If the churches are not careful, later generations will take the same view of its teachings on homosexuality."

Connecticut marriage politics: Why the delayed state supreme court ruling?

Posted on October 08, 2008
Could the Connecticut Supreme Court be delaying a controversial same-sex ?marriage? decision until after the November elections to keep voters from protecting marriage in the constitution? . . . It?s been nearly 16 months . . .

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