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?Gay group wants people to know SC is ?so gay??

Posted on September 17, 2008
Members of a South Carolina gay rights organization said Tuesday they hope a recent controversy about ads proclaiming the state "so gay" will stir up interest in this year's gay pride celebration.

Newborn Baby Found Alive in Trash Can at Phoenix Middle School

Posted on September 17, 2008
Police said a school administrator discovered the baby boy screaming inside the garbage can Tuesday afternoon with his umbilical cord still attached.

Conscience Rights for Medical Professionals Issue Reaches the White House

Posted on September 17, 2008
The President's Council on Bioethics will soon be meeting to discuss conscience rights for medical professionals.

Judge in Argentina rules rape victim does not have to undergo abortion

Posted on September 17, 2008
After weeks of investigation, a family court judge in the Argentinean province of Mendoza blocked a request by a woman that her 12 year-old daughter, who became pregnant through rape, be forced to undergo an abortion. The girl had expressed her desire to keep the baby and doctors testified an abortion would have carried serious medical and psychological risks.

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NYT: Abortion Issue Again Dividing Catholic Votes

Posted on September 17, 2008
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.

Pro-Abortion Forces Deliberately Mislead South Dakota Voters About Initiative Measure 11

Posted on September 17, 2008
The ads that the abortion proponents ("Healthy Families") placed on their website today, in an effort to defeat Initiated Measure 11, is deliberately misleading in an effort to confuse the voting public. At the same time, the abortion proponents exploited and misrepresented a personal tragedy.

Marriage Proponents Physically Assaulted in Santa Rosa, California

Posted on September 17, 2008
Volunteers with the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP) were assaulted on September 5th while distributing literature in support of traditional marriage at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Balkinization: ?The Woman-Protective Strategy as a Campaign of Misinformation?

Posted on September 17, 2008
The production of a body of published literature purporting to demonstrate that abortion causes psychiatric damage has been largely orchestrated by David Reardon, PhD.

Nebraska: Sexually oriented business ordinance advances

Posted on September 17, 2008
An ordinance that would regulate sexually oriented businesses in North Platte passed on its second reading before the City Council Tuesday night.

NY: ?Adult business closed by city?

Posted on September 17, 2008
The city closed Cloud 9, an adult entertainment business, Monday for one year for violating the city's nuisance laws, city officials said.

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

Posted on September 17, 2008
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.

Google abortion ad case settled

Posted on September 17, 2008
The Christian Institute is delighted to confirm that our legal proceedings against Google for blocking our abortion ad have been settled on amicable terms.

4 more kids dropped from FLDS case

Posted on September 17, 2008
On Tuesday, Texas Child Protective Services filed to "nonsuit" four more children taken into state custody in the raid on the YFZ Ranch. That brings the total number dropped to 291, agency spokesman Patrick Crimmins told the Deseret News.

?Mormons now issue in gay vows: Ariz. supporters of amendment charge ?bigotry??

Posted on September 17, 2008
The Arizona Daily Star:� �The campaign over whether marriage should be defined ? and limited ? in the state constitution could soon start to look like a fight between two politically polarizing groups: gays and Mormons . . .� � Meanwhile, opponents are crafting a strategy to label the amendment an attempt by the Mormon church to clean [...

ADF Pulpit Initiative: Pastors should determine the content of sermons not government

Posted on September 17, 2008
ADF attorney Erik Stanley appeared on the Georgene Rice Show�(KDPQ 93.9 FM, 800 AM, Portland Oregon) to discuss ADF’s Pulpit Initiative. � This mp3 runs�just under 20 minutes (4.6 meg download). �The last few minutes of the recording was cut short due to a technical glitch...

WorldNetDaily Questions President?s team about ADF Pulpit Initiative

Posted on September 17, 2008
Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House: "The Alliance Defense Fund is challenging the 1954 amendment to the Internal Revenue Code . . . Does the president agree or disagree with this pastoral prohibition on U.S. citizens?"

Massachusetts: ?Strip club hearing draws crowd in Mendon?

Posted on September 16, 2008
The Milford Daily News reports: Residents last night presented specific reasons for the Board of Selectmen to deny a strip club application, while the applicant’s attorney argued in front of the large crowd that his client meets the law and deserves an approval...

Mass. AG?s office approves ?adult entertainment zone?

Posted on September 16, 2008
The Herald News reports: It?s official: a 1-mile stretch of Route 6 between the Holiday Lanes bowling alley and Westport Flooring is now an adult entertainment overlay district. The state Attorney General?s Office approved the zone as consistent with the Massachusetts constitution and existing laws, the final step needed before the zone is official...

?Iowa Considers Gambling in Adult Clubs?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Online Casino Advisory reports: When Online Casino Advisory talks, people listen, even if they don’t always acknowledge the source of new ideas. OCA has lately been pushing the idea of combining strip clubs and casinos, allowing entertainment pleasures to co-exist...

Lawyers Ask Va. Bar to Investigate Monica Goodling

Posted on September 16, 2008
The ABA Journal reports: About a dozen lawyers are asking the Virginia State Bar to conduct an ethics investigation of former Justice Department lawyer Monica Goodling, accused in a report this summer of illegally considering politics in hiring decisions...

?Appeals court rejects adoption by lesbian couple: Ky. ruling chides judge in ?stepparent-like? case?

Posted on September 16, 2008
"In a 62-page ruling issued Friday about the case, the court said that with a 'wink-wink' and a 'nod-nod,' Family Court Judge Eleanore Garber and lawyers for a lesbian couple ignored those laws."

Matt Bowman to Sherry F. Colb: Babies are blessings not ?risks?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Common sense tells us that a mother and child are in a loving rather than adversarial relationship, that the child did not attack or invade anyone, and that, as mentioned, pregnancy is not a ?risk? of sex but its natural goal.

Couple fight California?s gender-neutral language in wedding license

Posted on September 16, 2008
To the state of California, however, she is either "Party A" or "Party B." Those are the terms that have replaced "bride" and "groom" on the state's new gender-neutral marriage licenses. And to Bird and Codding, that is unacceptable . . .

Wisconsin: Debate over City Hall nativity in federal court

Posted on September 16, 2008
The AP reports: “The debate over a nativity display at Green Bay City Hall has moved to federal court.” According to the report, the city’s attorney and Liberty Counsel are seeking dismissal of the suit originally filed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and others on grounds that the nativity was taken down before [...

Kentucky: ACLU files complaint over Louisville McDonald?s staff calling customers derogatory sexually oriented names

Posted on September 16, 2008
Warning: the reports contains vulgar language describing the name calling. PageOneQ.com reports: “. . . the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a complaint with the city’s Human Relations Commission. City law bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation ...

2 boys left at Neb. hospitals under ?haven? law

Posted on September 16, 2008
The AP reports: “Two boys ages 15 and 11 were left at Nebraska hospitals over the weekend, the first youngsters surrendered under the state’s new safe-haven law that allows caregivers to abandon children and teens as well as infants, officials said...

Ninth Circuit rejects argument that a federal district court may require that notices of appeal be filed electronically in order to be timely

Posted on September 16, 2008
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Charles Darwin to receive apology from the Church of England for rejecting evolution

Posted on September 16, 2008
The Telegraph reports: “The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin’s ideas. It will call ‘anti-evolutionary fervour’ an ‘indictment’ on the Church...

LA Times urges passage of ENDA

Posted on September 16, 2008
The LA Times has posted this editorial titled: Act on gay rights bill. It begins: In light of the illness of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Democratic leaders in the Senate have indicated that they will not bring up a civil rights bill he has championed this year...

Florida: Marriage amendment backers seek more pastoral support

Posted on September 16, 2008
Meanwhile, a new poll by Quinnipiac University released Sept. 8 found the measure coming up short of the 60 percent support required to pass constitutional amendments in Florida

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