Religion & Law

Flagstaff, AZ city meeting: Pastors opposing special rights based on sexual preference called bigots

Posted on September 12, 2008
"More than 100 residents, including White, crammed into a meeting room at the Radisson Woodlands Hotel for the forum, which was being held by the city's Diversity Awareness Commission."

10th Circuit: Las Cruces Cross Logo is not unconstitutional

Posted on September 12, 2008
". . . the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of two cases challenging the display of three Latin crosses as a symbol of Las Cruces, New Mexico . . . "

Law Students: A New, Tighter Deadline for Considering Next Summer?s Jobs

Posted on September 12, 2008
Lynne Traverse reports in the American Lawyer:  It’s a whole new world for 2L students lining up now for 2010 summer associate positions. In previous years, NALP set deadlines for accepting offers for these jobs that extended until Dec. 1. This year — responding to voices throughout its membership and a task force appointed to examine the issue [...

Biden, Palin May Loom Large in Judge Picks

Posted on September 12, 2008
Joe Palazzolo and Tony Mauro report in the Legal  Times:  Biden’s credentials as a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee seem to give him more clout in this area, while Palin — seen as the conservative weight on the Republican ticket — is thought to be an assurance that Sen...

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?The Bachelor Life Includes a Family?

Posted on September 12, 2008
The NY Times reports:  Like the women two decades ago who decided to become mothers on their own ? sparking a redefinition of family, not to mention a culture war ? single men, gay and straight, hear the ticking biological clock. And they are moving beyond looking for Ms...

Patrick J. Buchanan: Last Chance ? For Life

Posted on September 12, 2008
. . . No. The reason this election is the last chance for life is the Supreme Court . . .

Feminist Army Aims Its Cannons at Palin

Posted on September 12, 2008
Jonah Goldberg has this post on Townhall that begins: “Whether or not Sarah Palin helps John McCain win the election, her greatest work may already be behind her. She’s exposed the feminist con job.” Visit Site » Share This

22-Year-Old Auctions Off Virginity, Plans to Earn Master?s in Marriage and Family Therapy

Posted on September 12, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “In a case of bizarre and sad irony, a 22-year-old college graduate is auctioning off her virginity to the highest bidder to help pay off college loans and allow her to pursue a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy...

Texas: Travis judge tells woman to stop having kids

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Austin American-Statesman reports: “A judge in Travis County has ordered a woman to stop having children as a condition of her probation in her case of injury to a child by omission, an extraordinary measure that legal experts say could be unconstitutional...

Book Review: Empires of the Sea, An epic clash for the dominion of Europe

Posted on September 12, 2008
Matthew Price has this interesting historical review on the Boston Globe of a new book by Roger Crowley titled: Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World. Price writes:  When Ottomans sacked Constantinople in 1453, Christian Europe shuddered...

Charity Vouchers are good, but only universal tuition vouchers will reform the system

Posted on September 12, 2008
Education News reports:  A recent study from The Heartland Institute in Chicago,  “Can Vouchers Reform Public Schools? Lessons from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program,” by George Clowes takes a different approach.  While he agrees progress has been made in Milwaukee, he looks beyond the current program which serves low-income, predominantly minority, urban students, utilizing what Milton [...

Federal Judge Stops Pro-Life Group?s Ad Criticizing Barack Obama on Abortion

Posted on September 12, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the global abortion provider co-founded by US-based Planned Parenthood Federation of America, recently issued a primer to help affiliated ?Member Associations? and abortion-rights activists navigate abortion laws around the world ...

Ark. attorney general: Schools can admit illegal immigrants

Posted on September 12, 2008
USA Today reports:  . . . Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said in an advisory opinion Wednesday that schools don’t have a duty to verify the citizenship status of potential students they admit. The state’s higher education director earlier this year ordered schools to check the immigration status of potential students ...

ACLJ Victory: Federal Jury Awards Teen Challenge Nearly $1M in Damages in Religious Discrimination Case

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Tennessean carries this report: Jury hits Metro with $968,000 judgment. “Metro had already admitted to violating the Fair Housing Act by eliminating rehabilitation services as a permitted use in agricultural districts in 2007 - after Teen Challenge had already bought 13 acres at 2165 Baker Road...

Supreme Court Justice Scalia to speak at UM Sept. 24

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Montana Kaimin reports:  The University of Montana will welcome Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia as its fifth U.S. Supreme Court speaker on Sept. 24 in the University Theater. Scalia will address ?Constitutional Interpretation? as the 10th speaker in the Judge William B...

Pope In France Calls for New Reflection On Secularism

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports on the visit and offers this quote from the Pope:  In fact, it is fundamental, on the one hand, to insist on the distinction between the political realm and that of religion in order to preserve both the religious freedom of citizens and the responsibility of the State towards them; and, [...

John Paul Stevens - The most powerful octogenarian in America

Posted on September 12, 2008
Slate: Top "80 Over 80" honors this year go to John Paul Stevens, the oldest member of the U.S. Supreme Court and author of the majority opinions in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and Rasul v. Bush.

Joanne Jacobs: Where Sarah Palin Really Stands on Sex Education

Posted on September 12, 2008
?Explicit means explicit,? she said. ?No, I?m pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues. So I am not anti-contraception. But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids.

Detailed Study on Spread of H.I.V. in U.S.

Posted on September 12, 2008
The NY Times reports: “An unusually detailed study of people newly infected with H.I.V. in the United States has confirmed that the majority of new cases occur among gay and bisexual men and that blacks are most at risk. But the data show that whites and blacks tend to be infected at different times in their lives [...

This Weekend: Watch the Values Voter Summit Free Online

Posted on September 12, 2008
Citizen Link reports: Those who are unable to attend this weekend’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., can watch the event live online. The free webcast will feature the nation’s largest pro-family, social conservative event of the year...

The Nampa, Idaho Public Library did not need to bow to the ACLU?s demands

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Borderfire Report has this article discussing the Nampa library’s recent cave-in to ACLU threats over the removal of sexually explicit books.  It indicates:  “While it is certainly noble and definitely important for public officials to keep citizens and specifically taxpayers in mind when spending money to defend cases like these, the fact of the matter [...

Dad chases nude boy from daughter?s room with pipe

Posted on September 12, 2008
The AP reports on OneNewsNow.com: “An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room . . . The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000...

Richard John Neuhaus: A New Order of Religious Freedom

Posted on September 12, 2008
In a democracy that is free and robust, an opinion is no more disqualified for being religious than for being atheistic, or psychoanalytic, or Marxist, or just plain dumb . . .

Virginia Supreme Court strikes anti-spam law

Posted on September 12, 2008
"The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state's anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world's most prolific spammers."

UK: ?DVD tackles homophobia in school?

Posted on September 12, 2008
Over 2,000 young people in schools across Manchester have seen a play commissioned by Exceeding Expectations, a project that brings together over 14 partnership organisations and aims to combat homophobia within schools.

Last stand on same-sex marriage?

Posted on September 12, 2008
The stakes of the ballot drive to forbid same-sex marriage reach far beyond California's geographic and political borders in what has emerged as another chapter in America's culture wars.

Phoenix school teacher accused of showing porn in class

Posted on September 12, 2008
Police have opened an investigation into reports that a photography teacher played pornographic videos during class earlier this week.

What?s said and unsaid in French pre-visit pope coverage

Posted on September 12, 2008
There is much less snide criticism in the media now than there used to be. Just before the 1997 World Youth Day (WYD) in Paris, the media poured cold water on the idea and made fun of the Catholic Church and the ailing Pope John Paul.

Calif. man to get his ?HIV? vanity plate

Posted on September 12, 2008
California's Department of Motor Vehicles says it will go ahead and allow a motorist to order a vanity plate touting his HIV status.

Volokh: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Posted on September 12, 2008
It's true that the U.S. Code almost exclusively (with one minor exception) labels the Chief Justice as "the Chief Justice of the United States."

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