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Northe Platte, Nebraska: Sexually-oriented business ordinance tabled

Posted on October 08, 2008
The North Platte City Council was poised to pass an ordinance that would regulate sexually oriented businesses, but postponed final action at the last minute, despite protests from some council members.

Texas: Scientist Coalition Accused of ?Suppressing? Evidence Against Darwinism

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Christian Post reports: The 21st Century Science Coalition has the wrong name,? says Dr. John G. West, Vice President for Public Policy and Legal Affairs at the Discovery Institute?s Center for Science and Culture. ?It should be dubbed the ?19th Century Science Coalition,? because it wants to turn the clock back to the 19th century [...

?Virginia High-Schoolers Rally for Gay-Cure Books?

Posted on October 08, 2008
The American Library Association reports: “Groups of students and parents staged rallies and presented some 85 books on homosexuality from a conservative Christian perspective for inclusion in the libraries at 11 schools in the Fairfax County (Va...

Huffington Post: ?Planned Parenthood Dumps Bush Rubber Stamp Susan Collins?

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Huffington Post reports that Planned Parenthood has “dumped” pro-abortion Republican Senator Susan Collins. “It’s the first time Planned Parenthood has backed the challenger to a senator it had previously endorsed. It also seems to be the first time Planned Parenthood has backed a Senate challenger over an incumbent who identifies as pro-choice...

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Bishop: Catholic Adoption Agencies Could Be Evicted for Defying Church Teaching on Homosexual Adoption

Posted on October 08, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “A Catholic adoption agency in northwest England will face possible eviction from diocesan properties if its trustees do not reconsider a decision to comply with government demands to place children with homosexual partners...

Open letter asks King of Spain not to sign decree allowing aborted babies to be ground up

Posted on October 08, 2008
CNA reports: “Father Joan Manuel Serra, a priest of the Diocese of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, has asked King Juan Carlos of Spain not to sign a royal decree that would modify mortuary policies and would make it legal to use ‘baby crushing machines’ that would be used on the remains of babies aborted up [...

Ireland: Pro-abortion group to lobby Westminster MPs

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Irish Times reports: “FORTY MEMBERS of the Alliance for Choice group from Northern Ireland are to travel to London tomorrow to lobby MPs and peers for the extension of the 1967 British Abortion Act to Northern Ireland . . . The 40 women will be telling MPs that saying ?Leave abortion to the Northern [...

Cardinal caught up in Catholic row as celebrity hospital omits clause banning abortion

Posted on October 08, 2008
[Content Warning: sexually suggestive content that seems to be standard now in British media] The Daily Mail reports: “The head of the Roman Catholic church in England was yesterday accused of betraying the religious character of a hospital by allowing its rules on abortion to be watered down ...

Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act introduced to counter Asian abortion practices common in U.S.

Posted on October 08, 2008
One News Now reports: “A member of Congress wants sex-selection abortion stopped in its tracks in America. Leading pro-life Congressman Trent Franks (R-Arizona) has introduced a bill, called the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, to ban sex-selection abortion — a practice that has been common in some foreign countries and is now becoming more common in the [...

UK: New blood tests for Down?s syndrome

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Liverpool Daily Post reports: A new non-invasive test for pregnant women worried that their unborn child has Down’s syndrome has been developed by scientists. The technique involves looking for tell-tale chromosome fragments in a blood sample...

Congress Renews Federal Funding for Abstinence Education

Posted on October 08, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The U.S. Senate passed a bill Saturday that extends funding for Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) through September 2009, reports citizenlink.com.” Visit Site » Share This

Handel frightens China: Religious music banned

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Telegraph reports: “The wheelchair tracks from the Paralympic Games had scarcely faded from the streets of Beijing before the Chinese regime started coming down heavily against the performance of music with religious content . . . The Chinese rulers do not seem to be worried by Jacobitism, but they seem to recognise religion as [...

The worst debate ever

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Politico reports: “With the country at one of its most interesting ? not to mention terrifying ? moments in a generation, John McCain and Barack Obama met in Nashville for what was surely one of the dullest and least satisfying presidential debates in memory...

Colo. Gov. opposes personhood amendment

Posted on October 08, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter announced on Tuesday that he will oppose the measure that will appear on the November ballot defining unborn children as persons under law. The measure could set off a debate over abortion and lead to banning abortions and other practices that destroy human life before birth...

Pro-Life Advocates Upset Second Presidential Debate Didn?t Address Abortion

Posted on October 08, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “Analysis shows the town hall debate format allowed just 15 percent of the questions to focus on social issues, and Brokaw never allowed an abortion question.” Visit Site [...]

Pennsylvania: Extreme Associates to stand trial on obscenity charges

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports: “A California couple accused of violating the nation’s obscenity laws for running a company that made and distributed pornographic films depicting rape and murder will finally stand trial in Pittsburgh — more than five years after being charged...

Porn Blocker: American Will Now Filter In-Flight Web Content

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Middle Seat Terminal Blog on the Wall Street Journal reports: In a shift, American Airlines has said it is working with the provider of its in-flight internet service to develop a system to block pornographic content. In a statement it put out early Tuesday evening the carrier said it made the decision ?based on the feedback [...

How Will Harvard and Stanford Grades Affect the Clerkship Market?

Posted on October 08, 2008
Orin Kerr has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy. He writes: The announcement that both Harvard and Stanford Law Schools are dropping letter grades and moving to a H/P/LP/F system raises a really interesting question: How will the switch impact the market for law clerks? Harvard and Stanford students are often major players for very competitive [...

9th Circuit Rejects RFRA Challenge To Hydroelectric Project By Snoqualmie Tribe

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Snoqualmie Indian Tribe v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, (9th Cir., Oct. 7, 2008), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld FERC’s granting of a 40-year license renewal to Puget Sound Energy, Inc...

Typos and Errors Lead to Slashed Fees for Attorney

Posted on October 08, 2008
The Legal Intelligencer reports: “The sloppy pleading clearly angered Senior U.S. District Judge J. William Ditter Jr., who spent the first three pages of his opinion in McKenna v. City of Philadelphia just describing the errors, adding ‘[sic]‘ after each one, and ultimately slashed the fees to about $26,000...

?Gay Couples Rush to the Altar in California Ahead of November Vote?

Posted on October 08, 2008
The NY Times reports: With four weeks to go before a statewide vote on same-sex marriage, a study has found that 3,800 gay couples are marrying each month in California. The study, released Monday by the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, estimated that 11,440 couples had married since the state Supreme Court legalized [...

Ohio top court mulls Planned Parenthood files

Posted on October 08, 2008
The AP reports: “Ohio Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that an abortion clinic’s medical records on other patients are relevant to a lawsuit brought by parents of a 14-year-old girl who had an abortion without their consent...

14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned under Nebraska law

Posted on October 08, 2008
The AP reports: A 14-year-old Iowa girl was abandoned Tuesday in Nebraska under its safe haven law, but the person who left her could face prosecution in the girl’s home state, Nebraska health officials said . . . State lawmakers are already discussing changes to the law they passed in the spring, but they may not be [...

City Receives Early Christmas Present In Legal Victory Over Anti-Religious Group

Posted on October 08, 2008
Liberty Counsel reports: “Yesterday afternoon, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) against the City of Green Bay. Liberty Counsel successfully represented the City of Green Bay in a controversy over last year’s Christmas display with a Nativity scene at City Hall...

GLSEN: ?A Push to Curb the Casual Use of Ugly Phrases?

Posted on October 08, 2008
The NY Times reports: The [advertising] campaign, created pro bono by the New York office of Arnold Worldwide, urges an end to using derogatory language, particularly labeling anything deemed negative or unpleasant as ?so gay.? That is underlined by the theme of the campaign: ?When you say, ?That?s so gay,? do you realize what you say? [...