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Manitoba Physicians College Also Considering Restricting Freedom of Conscience

Posted on September 19, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (CPSM) may implement a policy similar to the controversial Ontario proposal that would have restricted physicians’ freedom of conscience and religion. News of the plan for Manitoba doctors was disclosed earlier this week in a briefing note to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario [...

McCain, Obama Defend Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on September 19, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “In a Monday interview with Science Debate 2008, presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama reiterated their individual positions on the embryonic stem cell (ESC) research debate, with both candidates again stating that they support ESC research...

State Department Issues 2008 Report On International Religious Freedom

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “The U.S. State Department this afternoon issued its 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom. The Report discusses separately the status of religious freedom in almost every country around the world, including the 8 that have been designated as “countries of particular concern”: Burma, China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi [...

DC Federal court rules transsexual discrimination violates Title VII

Posted on September 19, 2008
Advocates called the ruling groundbreaking because a federal judge has now ruled that discriminating against someone for changing genders is sex discrimination under federal law.

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Is America in China?s wallet?

Posted on September 19, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: “An activist dedicated to a free China doesn’t think it’s a good idea for communist China to control as much as 49 percent of New York investment bank Morgan Stanley.” Visit Site » Share This

RC Church forced to drop adoption work in Wales

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Christian Institute reports: “The Roman Catholic Church has severed links with its adoption agencies in every one of its Welsh dioceses because of the Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs).” Visit Site » Share This

HHS Conscience Regulations - Your Comment Needed by September 25

Posted on September 19, 2008
Casey Mattox has this post on the CLS Blog that begins: “The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has issued proposed regulations that would require most recipients of HHS funds to certify that they comply with federal laws protecting the conscience rights of pro-life medical professionals...

India Gov?t Criticizes States amid Anti-Christian Attacks

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Christian Post reports: Following the persecution of Christians in Orissa and Karnataka, the Government of India on Thursday criticized the state governments for their failure to control the violence by Hindu radical groups. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a warning under Article 355 that it would be compelled to take action against the state [...

Countdown to California Suicide Bill Enactment: Will Gov. Schwarzenegger Take Action?

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Americans United for Life Blog reports: AB 2747, a dangerous bill promoting assisted suicide, was placed on the desk of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at 11 a.m. this Thursday, September 18, 2008. The Governor has twelve days starting Thursday to veto or sign the suicide measure, or else the measure will become law automatically without [...

Hampton, Iowa: ?Ordinance Approved For Adult Business?

Posted on September 19, 2008
KIMT.com reports: “The Hampton city council is voting 5 to 1 in support of an adult business ordinance. The new law only allows those types of shops to set up in Industry Park.” Visit Site » Share This

Yakima, Washington: ?Regulation of adult businesses advances?

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Yakima-Herald Republic reports: Yakima moved a step closer Thursday to passing a law that would restrict the location of new adult businesses but allow existing ones to stay open. The law, which the city’s Urban Area Regional Planning Commission voted to recommend to the City Council, will go before the council likely within the next month...

Florida: Palm Bay To Tightly Restrict Sexually Oriented Businesses

Posted on September 19, 2008
WFTV.com reports: “The Palm Bay city council will impose tough new restrictions on strip clubs and adult bookstores instead of clustering them together. The council abandoned plans to try to cluster businesses into one district, Thursday night.” Visit Site » Share This

Plaintiffs Win Only 15 Percent of Employment-Related Cases in Federal Court

Posted on September 19, 2008
Legal Blog Watch reports: A study commissioned by the American Constitution Society reveals that, based on data from 1979 to 2006, plaintiffs who brought employment discrimination suits in federal district courts prevailed only 15 percent of the time, compared to 51 percent for non-employment related cases...

Ariz. Lawyers Can Practice Across State Lines With Rule Change

Posted on September 19, 2008
The ABA Journal reports: A Phoenix lawyer has succeeded in his quest to get the Arizona Supreme Court to change a rule that had barred out-of-state lawyers from practicing in the state unless they take the state bar exam. The rule change (PDF) allows lawyers from other states to practice in Arizona if their states have reciprocity [...

Film Critic Joins Protest of Two Movies With Explicit Scenes Involving Young Girls

Posted on September 19, 2008
Fox News reports: The founder of the movie review company Movieguide has joined the growing ranks of protesters calling for a box office boycott of two films that feature sexually explicit scenes involving young girls. “Hounddog,” starring 14-year-old Dakota Fanning, drew controversy when it appeared at the Sundance Film Festival last year for its scene depicting the [...

Religious leaders learn to stay on IRS? good side

Posted on September 19, 2008
Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel at the nonprofit Alliance Defense Fund, said the IRS' "increasingly vague guidance" flies in the face of the Constitution.

US group: China releases underground church bishop

Posted on September 19, 2008
The AP reports: The bishop of an unregistered Roman Catholic church in northern China has returned home, after being taken away by authorities on the last day of the Beijing Olympics, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Friday. However, Bishop Jia Zhiguo remained under 24-hour police surveillance at his home at the Christ the King Cathedral in Wuqiu [...

Italy?s Right to Curb Islam With Mosque Law

Posted on September 19, 2008
Reuters reports: Muslim immigrants using Italy as a route into Europe already get a foretaste of the mistrust with which many Europeans view their religion, with many projects for mosques and prayer halls already blocked by the opposition of local Italian residents...

San Diego Union Tribune: ?No on Prop. 8?

Posted on September 19, 2008
The San Diego Union Tribune has this editorial: . . . With gay marriage a fait accompli, society has not crumbled. The long-standing institution of marriage is not in crisis. Californians have taken this change in stride. Indeed, there appears to be a marked shift in public opinion toward acceptance of gay marriage ...

New Study Shows Polling Significantly Understates Support for Traditional Marriage

Posted on September 19, 2008
"In some cases, polls have under-estimated support for traditional marriage by as much as 21 percentage points."

David Blankenhorn: Protecting marriage to protect children

Posted on September 19, 2008
David Blankenhorn has this commentary in the LA Times. He concludes: Here is my reasoning. I reject homophobia and believe in the equal dignity of gay and lesbian love. Because I also believe with all my heart in the right of the child to the mother and father who made her, I believe that we as [...

California: ?Field Poll finds gay marriage ban trails by 17 points?

Posted on September 19, 2008
A constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in California has lost support during the past two months and now trails by a 17-point margin.

Marvin Olasky: War of the centuries

Posted on September 19, 2008
Marvin Olasky has this commentary on Townhall: This year Sept. 11 came right in the middle of Ramadan, the month of daylight fasting for Muslims . . . With memories of horror fading, the Empire State Building?thanks to Islamic terrorists it moved up from third to first place in the list of Gotham’s tallest buildings?is scheduled [...

Mona Charen: Abortions Do Sometimes Produce Live Births

Posted on September 19, 2008
Mona Charen has this report on Real Clear Politics. She writes: Appearing on C-SPAN last weekend I mentioned that Barack Obama had opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act when he was an Illinois state senator — a position he has attempted to deny or obfuscate ever since...

We Are Losing Europe to Islam

Posted on September 19, 2008
Diana West has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: “Is Europe lost?” The answer to the second question is, “No, not yet.” And losing Europe, I would add, is by no means inevitable. But that doesn’t mean the continent isn’t currently hell-bent to accommodate the dictates of Islamic law, bit by increasingly larger bit ...

YouTube Yanks Another Pro-Life Video, Clip Exposes Barack Obama on Abortion

Posted on September 19, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “YouTube, the popular video sharing web site, has yanked yet another pro-life video — this one exposing the pro-abortion policies of presidential candidate Barack Obama. The Kansas [...]

Politics and the Pulpit: Group Declares ?Freedom Sunday?

Posted on September 19, 2008
The National Catholic Register carries this report discussing ADF’s Pulpit Initiative. It begins: If the Alliance Defense Fund gets its way, Catholic priests may soon be free to endorse political candidates in their Sunday homilies. And they would do so without fear of jeopardizing the tax-free status of their parish churches ...

2008 Survey On First Amendment Attitudes Released

Posted on September 19, 2008
. . . 46% strongly agree and 17% mildly agree that the nation's founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation . . . 36% strongly agree . . . the Constitution establishes a Christian nation . . .

Federal Courts: Irregular Panels

Posted on September 19, 2008
Jordan, Samuel P., Irregular Panels (September 15, 2008). Alabama Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2008 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1268315 This article explores a common but essentially unexplored feature of appellate decision-making: decisions by irregular panels...

Texas Supreme Court Justice: In the Founders? own words

Posted on September 19, 2008
Justice Don R. Willett has this commentary in the Austin American-Statesman. He writes: The Court’s landmark Heller decision last June agreed 5-4 with Texas that “the District of Columbia’s categorical gun ban is markedly out of step with the judgment of the legislatures of the fifty States, all of which protect the right of private citizens [...

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