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North Carolina School District May Add Creationism To Curriculum

Posted on September 18, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “Articles in the Wilmington, North Carolina Star News on Tuesday and Wednesday report that the Brunswick County (NC) School Board is looking for a way to teach creationism in the schools.” Visit Site » Share This

Why the Senate Needs to Approve More Judges Before It Adjourns

Posted on September 18, 2008
Carl Tobias has this post on Findlaw that concludes: “Typically, federal judicial selection slows during a presidential elections year, especially at the end of a two-term administration. Nonetheless, the 110th Senate can still approve numerous nominees before it adjourns, if Democrats and Republicans cooperate and expeditiously review consensus picks...

Facing Big-Firm Rejection

Posted on September 18, 2008
The Fulton Daily Report has this article that begins: I have no idea what percentage of law school candidates ultimately land a Big Firm gig, but in my experience most law students will be rejected by at least one of the Big Firms. And in this economy, some will be rejected by all...

House Panel Moves Toward Impeaching Federal Judge

Posted on September 18, 2008
The AP reports: The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to open the first impeachment probe of a sitting judge in almost two decades. With little discussion, the Democratic-led panel voted unanimously to launch an investigation against U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, a Louisiana jurist, who is charged with presiding over a trial in which the lawyers [...

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Cass Sunstein: The fate of Roe v. Wade and choice

Posted on September 18, 2008
Cass Sunstein has this commentary in the Boston Globe. He writes: “The new president will probably be in a position to appoint at least one and perhaps as many as three new justices. With an excellent chance to reconfigure the Supreme Court, McCain, if elected, might well be able to get what the antiabortion [...

Democratic Strategists Urge Donations to Planned Parenthood to Attack McCain

Posted on September 18, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “Providing further evidence the party is linked to the abortion industry, leading Democratic strategists are telling large donors to give money to Planned Parenthood to bash John McCain.” Visit Site » Share This

John McCain: Let?s Build a Culture of Life on Abortion, Help Pregnant Women

Posted on September 18, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “In a Wednesday interview with Good Morning America, the ABC News lifestyle program, Sen. John McCain again clarified his pro-life views on abortion. He said he wants to build a culture of life and work to help pregnant women who are confronted with unexpected pregnancies...

Poll Shows Americans Don?t Know Law on Whether Doctors Must Do Abortions

Posted on September 18, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A new poll reveals most Americans don’t know what federal law says about whether doctors are required to do abortions or refer women who want them to someone who will. The poll comes as a national battle is ensuing over the Bush administration’s desire to enforce the law to protect physicians’ rights...

House Approves Biggest Adoption Incentives Bill Since 1997, Heads to Senate

Posted on September 18, 2008
Life News.com reports: Under the legislation, the amount of money states would receive for promoting and completing certain adoptions would double. Any state that increases the number of adoptions of special-needs children to a record high level would receive $4,000 per adoption, up from $2,000 currently...

The Effect of Parental Involvement Laws on the Incidence of Abortion Among Minors

Posted on September 18, 2008
The Family Research Council has issued this report: This comprehensive analysis of minor abortion data from nearly all 50 states between 1985 and 1999 demonstrates that state-level parental involvement laws are effective in reducing the incidence of abortion among minors...

Scientism as the New Fundamentalism

Posted on September 17, 2008
Bill Muehlenberg has this post on his Culture Watch Blog. He writes: The term ?fundamentalism? is today taken as a term of derision. It is used in a pejorative sense. It is now used to refer to those who are bigoted, closed-minded, not open to reason and evidence, and pushing a narrow agenda...

Conscience Rights for Medical Professionals Issue Reaches the White House

Posted on September 17, 2008
Concerned Women for America reports: “The President’s Council on Bioethics will soon be meeting to discuss conscience rights for medical professionals. After many complaints, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) drafted regulations that would strongly enforce those rights for doctors, nurses and others; rights that already exist under current law...

Colo. ?personhood? amendment would answer question Roe posed

Posted on September 17, 2008
Baptist Press reports: When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun authored the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, he acknowledged that if the definition of “personhood is established” to include the unborn, then the case for abortion rights “collapses” because the unborn’s “right to life would then be guaranteed” by the Constitution...

New Jersey: Twp. condemns sex entertainment expo

Posted on September 17, 2008
The Sentinel reports: The largest adult entertainment expo in the New York/New Jersey area found its home in Edison this past weekend, much to the chagrin of the township government, from the administration to the council. While the municipality lacked legal options to prevent the gathering from taking place this year, plans are already in the works [...

Pro-Life Groups Launch Campaign to De-Fund Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz

Posted on September 17, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: A collection of pro-life groups has launched a national campaign to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business responsible for more than 25 percent of all abortions in the U.S. On Thursday, leaders from 20 pro-life groups with come together to draft a joint resolution...

?Advocates worry McCain support for embryonic research may waver?

Posted on September 17, 2008
USA Today reports: “Despite Sen. John McCain’s recent votes in favor of embryonic stem cell research, some advocates are worried he wouldn’t be as supportive in the Oval Office as he was in the Senate chamber.” Visit Site » Share This

Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes

Posted on September 17, 2008
The NY Times reports: A struggle within the church over how Catholic voters should think about abortion is once again flaring up just as political partisans prepare an all-out battle for the votes of Mass-going Catholics in swing-state towns like Scranton...

New Jersey Lawyer: ?Law and More: When gay and religious rights collide at work?

Posted on September 17, 2008
Rene M. Johnson has this article in the New Jersey Lawyer. She writes: So, what is an employer to do when its corporate policy to promote tolerance of gay and lesbian employees conflicts with the religious views of other employees? Employers faced with this situation may feel they’re caught in a proverbial Catch-22...

Fears Mount for India?s Christians as Violence Spreads

Posted on September 17, 2008
Catholic Culture reports: Hindu-Christian tension mounted in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka, where 14 churches were attacked on Sunday. UCA News?s T. S. Thomas reports, ?Police drove around 500 protesting Catholics inside a church and locked them in from outside ? In another incident, police entered a church and beat Catholics praying for atonement for [...

See You At the Pole Sept. 24

Posted on September 17, 2008
See You at the Pole (SYATP), a student-initiated and student-led movement that started in the Fort Worth suburb of Burleson, Texas, in 1990, this year is scheduled for Wed., Sept. 24 at schools throughout the United States and in many other countries ...

Pro-Life groups to buy ads on Google after legal threat

Posted on September 17, 2008
"Christian and other religious groups opposed to abortion were allowed to advertise on Google for the first time from today, after the search engine capitulated in the face of a legal challenge."

?Firefighters sue San Diego, alleging harassment in gay pride parade?

Posted on September 17, 2008
The LA Times, Monday edition reported: Four San Diego firefighters are suing the city government for damages because they were allegedly sexually harassed while participating involuntarily in the 2007 gay pride parade. The four say they were ordered to drive their firetruck in the three-hour parade even though firefighters at previous parades had been subjected to catcalls [...

Ensign: Senate Republicans could stay at 49 seats

Posted on September 17, 2008
The Hill reports: Senate Republicans? campaign chief said Wednesday that he?s more optimistic now than he has been at any point in the cycle, and that it’s possible they could play Democrats to a draw in November. Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), pointed to the momentum created by Republican [...

McCain discusses role of religion in personal and national life

Posted on September 17, 2008
CNA reports: Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain spoke about the place of religion and politics in a Friday appearance on the ABC daytime talk show The View. While professing respect for people regardless of their religious beliefs, he said he prayed for God?s guidance and claimed the United States was founded upon ?Judeo-Christian values...

10th Circuit Upholds Roy, Utah?s ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses

Posted on September 17, 2008
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has issued a ruling in Doctor John’s v. Wahlen, No. 07-4131 (10th Cir. Sept. 17, 2008). The opinion begins: The Plaintiff-Appellant Doctor John?s, Inc. appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of the Defendant-Appellee City of Roy (?City?) on its claim that the City?s ordinance regulating sexually oriented [...

Scalia says University of Chicago has gone liberal

Posted on September 17, 2008
On the eve of today's 221st anniversary of the U.S. Constitution's adoption, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told conservative lawyers in Chicago that the University of Chicago Law School ? where he used to teach ? has lost its edge and gone liberal.

MN: Willmar schools won?t change policy on prayer time

Posted on September 17, 2008
Willmar public school officials are sticking with their original policy on when to allow Somali students to pray.

CNN: Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, 4 years later

Posted on September 17, 2008
In the six months after May 17, 2004, when Massachusetts began issuing marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples, an estimated 6,100 same-sex couples married. They now average less than 1,000 a year, according to MassEquality.org, a grassroots organization working to help gay and lesbian couples achieve equality.

ND: ?Critics want book on gay sex removed from library?

Posted on September 17, 2008
The Lewis and Clark Public Library held a public hearing Tuesday night on whether the book "The Joy of Gay Sex" should stay or go.

?D.C. may take up gay marriage bill in ?09?

Posted on September 17, 2008
If Democrats expand their majority in Congress and California voters uphold same-sex marriage, a gay marriage bill is likely to be approved by the D.C. City Council as early as April 2009, according to activists and City Hall insiders.

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