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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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NYT: The Key to Wedded Bliss? Money Matters

Posted on September 12, 2008
Marrying for love is a relatively recent phenomenon. For centuries, marriages were arranged affairs, aligning families for economic or political purposes or simply pooling the resources of those scraping by.

Back and Forth on Stem-Cell Research Energizes Race

Posted on September 11, 2008
The NY Times reports: First abortion, now embryonic stem-cell research. An issue that energizes social conservatives has once again been thrust into the presidential campaign, after Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic nominee for vice president, attacked Republicans on Tuesday for rejecting President Bush?s limited support for using human embryonic cell lines to develop medical [...

UK: Leading scientist urges teaching of creationism in schools

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Times Online reports: Creationism should be taught in science classes as a legitimate point of view, according to the Royal Society, putting the august science body on a collision course with the Government. The Rev Michael Reiss, a biologist and its director of education, said it was self-defeating to dismiss as wrong or misguided the [...

ABA Approves Bar Exam Courses for Credit Toward Graduation

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Law Librarian Blog reports that the ABA has approved a new rule allowing Bar Exam preparation courses to be include for credit toward law school graduation. Visit Site » Share This

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Does Focus on the Family Really Hate Gay People?

Posted on September 11, 2008
Jennifer Mesko has this report on Citizen Link. She writes: The mainstream media and homosexual activists regularly paint Focus on the Family as a “gay-hating fundamentalist group.” The rhetoric has resurfaced ? and grown ? this week, as Focus takes its Love Won Out (LWO) conference to Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday...

Florida: Dancers Arrested In Strip Club Raid

Posted on September 11, 2008
Local6.com reports: “The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation raided Baby Dolls Wednesday night after a sign outside publicized nude dancing inside. Full nudity is banned at strip clubs in Orange County.” Visit Site » Share This

?High school for gay students proposed in Chicago?

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Atlanta Journa. Constitution reports: But the plan isn?t likely to become reality before 2012, and that?s only if it passes through the bevy of criticism it faces from both sides of the political spectrum. Conservatives say the Social Justice High School-Pride Campus would be a misuse of public funds and require administrators to take a moral [...

ADF-allied attorneys secure victory for religious speech at NY college

Posted on September 11, 2008
"In 2007, Davis attempted to express his faith by speaking and distributing religious tracts in a common area of SCCC. The college?s assistant dean . . . told Davis to stop preaching and leave the campus, or face arrest."

?Poll: On torture, evangelicals not looking to Bible, doctrine?

Posted on September 11, 2008
The APB reports: “A new survey suggests the very Americans who claim to follow the Bible most assiduously don?t consult it when forming their views about torture and government policy.” Visit Site » Share This

Behind closed doors: Massage Spas, Sex Shops and Human Trafficking

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Colorado Independent reports: Last fall, KOAA-Channels 5/30 reported that it used a hidden camera to record offers of sex at four area massage shops. Lt. Al Harmon of the region’s multi-agency Metro Vice, Narcotics and Intelligence unit estimates there are about 20 such businesses operating in El Paso County...

California: Legalized prostitution not the ?help? sex workers need

Posted on September 11, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: “Opposition is growing to a proposal on San Francisco’s November ballot that would, in effect, decriminalize prostitution. The proposal, Proposition K, would halt use of funds to enforce laws against prostitution, including the state ban...

California Marriage License Rejected Over the Words ?Bride? and ?Groom?

Posted on September 11, 2008
Concerned Women for America has posted an audio report discussing this topic: In Placer County, state bureaucrats rejected a marriage license submitted by Pastor Doug Bird on behalf of a couple that wrote the words “Bride” and “Groom” next to the official terms “Party A” and “Party B” printed on the license...

Texas Judge Takes Tots from ?Too Old? Grandparents, Age 59 and 52

Posted on September 11, 2008
The ABA Journal reports: Yolanda and Arnold Del Bosque have taken care of their 1- and 2-year-old grandchildren since they were infants. But a Texas judge said t a hearing last month that the state should take the tots away from them, reports the Houston Chronicle...

Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission joins call for Bush to reverse abortion rules that assist Planned Parenthood

Posted on September 11, 2008
Baptist Press reports: The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and other pro-life organizations have asked President Bush, in his final months in office, to change regulations that have enabled such organizations as Planned Parenthood to use federal funds to promote abortion as a form of family planning...

Minnesota: School District Sued For Discrimination Against Christian Club

Posted on September 11, 2008
Liberty Counsel has issued this press release that begins: “Today, Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit on behalf of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Minnesota (CEF) against Elk River Area School District #28, asking a federal court to halt the district?s discriminatory treatment of CEF...

More Fed?l Judges Seek Law Clerks With Practice Experience

Posted on September 11, 2008
The ABA Journal reports that federal judges are increasingly looking to experienced associates as clerks instead of new law school graduates.� Visit Site » Share This

Kentucky: $400,000 in costs sought by ACLU in Decalogue case

Posted on September 11, 2008
The McCreary Record reports: “Last week saw renewed activity in the county?s legal fight over posting the Ten Commandments . . . According to a report in The Lexington Herald-Leader, ACLU is seeking $390,588 for the 1,283 hours in which lead attorney David Friedman has worked on the case since 1999 plus $8,133 in expenses [...

Misguided Montgomery Advertiser Editorial claims that the Pulpit Initiative distorts reality

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Advertiser needs to do a fact check. The tax-exempt status of churches is not the same as "any other organization with the same status."

Number of Companies with Top Rating for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Workers Jumps by One-Third

Posted on September 11, 2008
HRC reports: “The Human Rights Campaign Foundation today released the seventh annual Corporate Equality Index, which rates 583 businesses on a scale from 0 to 100 percent on their treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors...

Swift fires 130 Muslim workers after Ramadan dispute

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News reports: “At least 130 Muslim workers at the north Greeley JBS Swift & Co. plant were fired Wednesday afternoon, apparently over a dispute involving breaks during Ramadan.” Visit Site » Share This

Books a weighty issue for law schools

Posted on September 11, 2008
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports: A typical law student lugs around 28 pounds of books worth about $1,000 per semester. In creating cutting-edge future lawyers, some legal professors say, paper is a problem . . . Are electronic books the future? Could companies like Amazon...

Canadian Doctors Group Worried Palin Example Will Lower Down?s Abortion Rate

Posted on September 11, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), told the Globe and Mail yesterday, “Palin’s decision to keep her baby, knowing he would be born with the condition, may inadvertently influence other women who may lack the necessary emotional and financial support to do the same...

Pentagon Invests $250 Million in Adult Stem Cell Research

Posted on September 11, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “As scientists continue to gather evidence that adult stem-cells hold great potential for healing and rebuilding human tissue, The Pentagon has announced it is investing a quarter-billion dollars into the research, reports CitizenLink...

Maryland: How dead voters lead to mandatory co-ed restrooms

Posted on September 11, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: Maryland’s highest court has endorsed Montgomery County’s plans for coed restrooms and showers, concluding that a challenge to the new law had to fail because there were not enough signatures on the referendum petitions to represent dead voters ...

Victoria Parliament in Australia Reject Bill to Legalize Assisted Suicide

Posted on September 11, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “The parliament of the Australian state of Victoria has rejected a measure that would have legalized assisted suicide there. The vote comes at the same time as the body is considering a bill to officially legalize abortions, even though they have been allowed across the island nation for years...

Good Judges Are More Important Than Ever

Posted on September 11, 2008
David B. Rivkin Jr.�and�Lee A Casey have this commentary in the�Wall Street Journal. It begins: Democrats have often caricatured conservatives’ concern with judges as part of what they consider an “obsession” with abortion. In fact, over the last 40 years judicial activism has brought the courts to the center of national policy making in virtually [...

Catholic Bishops To Take Up Abortion And Politics At November Assembly

Posted on September 11, 2008
The USCCB has issued this press release that begins: “The Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said the full body of U.S. bishops will discuss the practical and pastoral implications of political support for abortion during their annual assembly, November 10-13, in Baltimore...

Australia: Law ?opens way to abortion rush?

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Australian reports: “THE Brumby Government’s move to create the most liberal abortion laws of any state would lead to a rush of women from interstate seeking terminations, a minister has warned.” Visit Site » Share This

What?s the Matter With Sarah? Foreigners don?t understand middle America

Posted on September 11, 2008
Janet Albrechtsten has this commentary in the Wall Street Journal. She writes:� For left-leaning elites outside the United States, the nomination of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate is a case of “only in America” — a sneering phrase foreigners use to explain a weird or distasteful American phenomenon...

Ohio tabloid sues pro-family groups

Posted on September 11, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: “A coalition of pro-family groups in Ohio is being sued by an alternative newspaper for allegedly conspiring to violate their First Amendment rights.” �The pro-family groups asked the paper to stop running ads for sexually oriented businesses...

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