Religion & Law

Pro-Life Catholics Arrested at Cathedral in Baltimore Handing Out Literature Questioning the Ethics of Voting for Obama

Posted on September 15, 2008
Operation Rescue has issued this press release on the Christian Newswire site. It reports:   Joseph Landry (27) and Brian Sherwood (35) were arrested at the Basilica of the Assumption in Baltimore, MD (409 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD 21201) for passing out pro-life literature after Mass...

Feinstein opposes Proposition 8

Posted on September 15, 2008
The San Diego Union Tribune reports: “Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, has come out against Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.”   Sen. Feinstein web site Visit Site » Share This

U.S. Supreme Court: ACLJ files reply in Summum Case

Posted on September 15, 2008
The ACLJ has issued this update that begins:  The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) today filed in the Supreme Court of the United States the ACLJ?s reply brief, containing written legal arguments on behalf of a Utah city in a case that could affect local governments across the country...

Illinois: Appeal vs. Planned Parenthood (mostly) dismissed a second time

Posted on September 15, 2008
The Naperville Sun reports: - For the second time in as many weeks, a city board has dismissed appeals filed against Planned Parenthood’s New York Street clinic. Earlier this week, the Building Code Board of Appeals rejected the lion’s share of a complaint filed in July by anti-abortion activists, including Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood...

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UK Mother Murders Daughter Because ?Embarrassed? by Disability

Posted on September 15, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “This week, a UK court heard the case of a mother who allegedly deliberately drowned her disabled child in a bath because she was ashamed and embarrassed by her daughter’s cerebral palsy.” Visit Site » Share This

Royal Mail honours family planning pioneer Marie Stopes - but sparks outrage over her eugenics links

Posted on September 15, 2008
The Daily Mail reports: “Royal Mail has prompted criticism by including family planning pioneer Marie Stopes in a set of stamps marking women’s achievements. The feminist is best remembered for opening the first birth control clinic in Britain in 1921...

Catholic University to Honor Justice Breyer Who Wrote Majority Opinion Supporting Partial-Birth Abortion

Posted on September 15, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports:  ”In a brash move defying the U.S Bishops’ speakers policy, Fordham University’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics announced that pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is the 2008 recipient of the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize...

Shock: Prominent Feminist Admits ?Abortion is Murder? but ?I Am a Firm Supporter?

Posted on September 15, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports:  In an article focusing on newly appointed vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, prominent feminist Camille Paglia admits that, much like Gov. Palin, she also believes abortion involves the murder of an innocent life - but unlike Palin, Paglia says she is a “firm supporter” of abortion...

Oprah Winfrey goes after Internet predators, pleads with America to support Child Protection Act.

Posted on September 15, 2008
The Chicago Sun Times reports:  In an attempt to shock viewers into action, Winfrey read aloud an instruction manual circulating around the Internet telling predators just how to molest and rape girls as little as newborn babies. It told how to use pacifiers to penetrate children...

Cologne, Germany: Massive Mosque approved, demonstrations threatened

Posted on September 15, 2008
The AP carries this headline: Far-right European groups to protest German mosque.  The report indicates that “far right” groups are planning to protest the mosque which features two 177-foot-tall minarets.  ”Last week, the Iranian Foreign Ministry urged France as the current European Union president to block the planned gathering and complained it reflects a ‘growth of [...

What has the Supreme Court said about when govenrment libraries may remove books?

Posted on September 15, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy that begins:  ”The answer, it turns out, is that the Supreme Court has never given an answer. The issue was indeed before the court in Board of Ed. v. Pico, but ? despite some people’s reading of the case ? the Court did not resolve it...

Jeremiah G. Dys: All children deserve the right to live

Posted on September 15, 2008
. . . because West Virginia law permits this passive infanticide.

Key Discovery Rule Gets Nod

Posted on September 15, 2008
Marcia Coyle reports on the National Law Journal:  ”Designed to provide predictability and cost savings for all parties in litigation, a new Federal Rule of Evidence 502, which applies to the inadvertent disclosure in discovery of information protected by the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, is about to become reality...

ADF: Censoring Bible verses in private advertisements is unconstitutional

Posted on September 15, 2008
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4677 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND MEDIA ADVISORY September 15, 2008 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS:  (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom   ADF attorney available to media following hearing in lawsuit over Bible verses ADF:  Censoring Bible verses in private advertisements is unconstitutional WHO:  ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot WHAT:  Available for media interviews following oral arguments in Grosjean v...

PJI President Files Complaint Against PG&E Over Funding of Prop 8

Posted on September 15, 2008
"It is outrageous that a mammoth utility used my money to undermine the values of families in my community," said Dacus, who is the president of the Pacific Justice Institute . . .

Symbolic Expression and the Original Meaning of the First Amendment

Posted on September 15, 2008
he First Amendment protects only ?speech? and ?press,? not ?expression?: So some argue, condemning the Court?s symbolic expression cases . . . In this essay, I?ll argue that the Court has had it right all along, and that the Court?s critics are mistaken on originalist grounds.

Brother of Jailed China Forced Abortion Opponent Threatened Over Interviews

Posted on September 15, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “The brother of a blind attorney who is one of the leading figures against forced abortions in China has been threatened for giving interviews to Western media outlets. Meanwhile, the family of Chen Guangcheng was prohibited from visiting him in jail recently...

Pennsylvania: A Mennonite farmer is hauled away for the crime of selling raw milk

Posted on September 15, 2008
Fourwinds10.com reports:  In April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers...

Values Voter Summit: Alan Sears

Posted on September 15, 2008
The Dakota Voice has this report that begins: “Alan Sears, President of the Alliance Defense Fund, was the last speaker of the morning session of the second day of the Family Research Council’s Washington Briefing in D.C. today.”  Visit Site » Share This

Ken Connor: Keeping Religion in the Closet

Posted on September 15, 2008
Ken Connor has this commentary on Townhall.  He writes:  The truth is, the controversy over Palin’s religion boils down to one simple fact: modern pop culture and the media have tried to push religion into the closet, and they cannot stand to watch a politician speaking publicly about her faith...

James R. Stoner: Our Robed Rulers

Posted on September 15, 2008
He holds elected politicians themselves responsible for not defending more vigorously the chief alternative to judicial supremacy, namely "departmentalism," according to which each branch of the government has final say over constitutional questions that arise within its purview.

David Frum on making genetic enhancement a winner for Republicans

Posted on September 15, 2008
How should conservatives respond to such new technologies? ...these therapies [should] be available to all. Ensuring equality of care may become inseparable from ensuring equality of opportunity.

The Democrats? Education Divide

Posted on September 15, 2008
While party unity was a key theme of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, an important divide has emerged on education between teachers? unions on one side, and a new cadre of urban education leaders on the other.

American Air Attendants Urge Filters to Bar Web Porn (Update3)

Posted on September 15, 2008
Bloomberg reports: American Airlines flight attendants are urging the world’s largest carrier to filter its in-flight Internet service to block access to pornography and other Web sites the workers said were inappropriate. Attendants and passengers raised “a lot of complaints,” and leaders of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants broached the issue with management, without making a [...

Robert Knight: ?Wall Street Journal Fails Identify GOP-Bashing Author as Gay Activist?

Posted on September 15, 2008
Robert Knight has this commentary on Townhall that begins:  The Wall Street Journal allowed a homosexual activist to criticize GOP ?gay-bashing? on the top of its op-ed page ? but didn?t let readers know the author has a dog in the fight. In his lengthy article, ?The GOP Should Kiss Gay-Bashing Goodbye,? James Kirchick is identified simply [...

Fla. Christian barred from sharing faith files suit

Posted on September 15, 2008
An officer told Martin Mikhail the Bible was a ?work of fiction? and threatened him with arrest. He was also informed that he would need to obtain a permit before he could share his faith with passers-by.

Strip clubs in casinos not far off

Posted on September 12, 2008
Jeff Simpson has this article on the In Business Las Vegas site. It begins: :  I feel like I’m too young to be a curmudgeon, but some casino trends bring out the Andy Rooney in me. One such trend is the increasing number of links between the gaming industry and the strip club business...

Minnesota: Prayer Breaks for Muslims

Posted on September 12, 2008
The AP reports: “Gold?n Plump Poultry Inc. of St. Cloud has agreed to allow Somali workers to take short prayer breaks and to refuse handling pork at the company?s poultry processing facilities, under a federally mediated settlement.” Visit Site » Share This

Michigan: City planners say no to Islamic prayer center

Posted on September 12, 2008
MLive.com has this report on Grand Rapids: “Heritage Hill residents convinced city planners to reject an Islamic community’s request to convert a former school building into a worship center.” Visit Site » Share This

The War Against the Normal - Palin, God, and Iraq

Posted on September 12, 2008
James Taranto has this commentary in the Wall Street Journal discussing Palin’s comments on God’s will in connection with the war in Iraq. He writes:  As we noted yesterday, some of the less well-grounded members of the political media have been harshly attacking Palin for having a baby...

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