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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Ontario Human Rights Commission and College of Physicians Collude to Remove Doctors? Conscience Protections

Posted on September 04, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Canada’s Catholic Civil Rights League (CCRL) has expressed “serious concerns” that a proposal by a government “human rights” agency will force physicians to “check their personal views at the door in providing medical care...

Indonesia?s tradition of religious tolerance threatened by Islamic hard-liners

Posted on September 04, 2008
FoxNews.com reports: Hundreds of Christian theology students have been living in tents since a mob of angry Muslim neighbors stormed their campus last month wielding bamboo spears and hurling Molotov cocktails. The incident comes amid growing concern that Indonesia’s tradition of religious tolerance is under threat from Islamic hard-liners...

UK: Preachers of separatism at work inside Britain?s mosques

Posted on September 04, 2008
What should be done to a Muslim who converts to another faith? "We kill him," she says. . . This is not to tell you to start killing people," she continues. "There must be a Muslim leader, when the Muslim army becomes stronger, when Islam has grown enough...

On the growth of the Amish (think children)

Posted on September 04, 2008
The Get Religion Blog has this post on the rising number of church-state conflicts involving the Amish and their increasing population. Visit Site » Share This

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More on Discrimination Against the Irreligious (and Less Religious) in Child Custody Cases

Posted on September 04, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy discussing the consideration of religion in child custody cases. Visit Site » Share This

Gov. Palin?s Proclamation on Jury Rights Day

Posted on September 04, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy that includes the text of a proclamation of Sarah Palin declaring “Jury Rights Day.” Visit Site » Share This

St. Louis: Anti-porn group challenges library

Posted on September 04, 2008
The St. Louis Dispatch reports: In the quiet stacks of the St. Louis County libraries, two sides of a classic culture war are duking it out. A local group wants the libraries to make it more difficult for teens to have access to some books they think are unsuitable for reading without parental consent...

NJ Federal Court upholds school district?s prohibitions on religious holiday music

Posted on September 04, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Stratechuk v. Board of Education, South Orange Maplewood School District, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66383 (D NJ, Aug. 29, 2008), a New Jersey federal district court upheld a school board’s holiday music policy that barred inclusion of religious holiday music in school holiday concerts...

Challenge To Court Use for Bible Study Survives Motion To Dismiss

Posted on September 04, 2008
Religion Clause reports: “In Barlow v. Superior Court of California, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66668 (SD CA, Aug. 28, 2008), several court employees in San Diego sued to challenge the denial of their request to use an open jury room or court room for their weekly lunch-time Bible study meeting...

LA Times: ?Protecting the lawyer-client relationship: Congress should pass the Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act.?

Posted on September 04, 2008
The LA Times carries this editorial: Last week, Deputy Atty. Gen. Mark Filip rescinded rules that had allowed prosecutors in white-collar crime cases to promise corporate executives leniency in exchange for waiving the lawyer-client privilege or refusing to pay their lawyers...

Pastors? Web Electioneering Attracts U.S. Reviews of Tax Exemptions

Posted on September 04, 2008
The NY Times reports: But when Pastor Manning, who is black, posted an angry sermon in February on the Web site of his church, the Atlah World Ministries, denouncing Senator Barack Obama as a ?pimp? and Mr. Obama?s mother as a ?trashy white woman,? his preaching spread like a virus on YouTube, earning lavish attention on [...

The California Supreme Court Rules That Fertility Doctors Must Make Their Services Available to Lesbians, Despite Religious Objections

Posted on September 04, 2008
Joanna Grossman has this commentary on Findlaw.� She concludes: The North Coast ruling does not alleviate the many inequalities related to infertility. But it is a very good start. It seems right, at a minimum, to interpret public accommodations laws to insist that medical providers offer the same range of services to all of their patients, [...

Americans U. for Sep. of Church State monitors sermons online for reporting to IRS

Posted on September 04, 2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has this post indicating: This means that sermons broadcast on the Web that churches hope will open the doors to new followers also opens the doors for watchdogs to easily discover tax code transgressions with a basic Google search...

Government copyright claims impairing Internet publication of laws is under attack

Posted on September 04, 2008
The Press Democrat reports: California’s building codes, plumbing standards and criminal laws can be found online.But if you want to download and save those laws to your computer, forget it. The state claims copyright to those laws. It dictates how you can access and distribute them — and therefore how much you’ll have to pay for [...

Florida Supreme Court takes property tax cut and vouchers off ballot

Posted on September 04, 2008
"The justices also knocked off the Nov. 4 ballot a pair of voucher amendments, in the latest twist in Florida's long-running legislative and legal battle over whether taxpayers' money can be used to send children to private religious schools . . ."

Video and Transcript: Sarah Palin RNC speech

Posted on September 04, 2008
Video and the Text of the speech are available on the McCain Campaign website here. Share This

ACLU sues to halt RI governor?s immigration order

Posted on September 04, 2008
The AP reports: A civil rights group filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block Gov. Don Carcieri from enforcing an executive order requiring private employers to electronically check the immigration status of new hires. The lawsuit, filed by the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, challenges an executive order that Carcieri signed in March [...

WSJ: Republicans may have found a future Thatcher

Posted on September 04, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has this editorial titled: She Shoots, She Scores. It begins: “Twenty years after Ronald Reagan left office, Republicans who have long missed him may have found a future Margaret Thatcher.” Visit Site » Share This

?What?s so special about Sarah?? She?s closer to the way women actually view themselves

Posted on September 04, 2008
Daniel Henninger has this commentary in The Wall Street Journal. He writes: One can’t subtract politics from a woman who is running for vice president, but Sarah Palin’s manifest appeal at the moment is about something larger than retail politics...

UK: Hillary v. Palin 2012

Posted on September 04, 2008
Some of the Brits must have been watching Sarah Palin’s performance at the Republican convention apparently along with 30 million Americans, “the greatest number ever to watch a candidate for the much-derided VP post. The Sun carries this glowing appraisal of Palin that concludes: But most fascinating of all, consider this: If Obama loses, [...

NJ: New charter school the pride of Camden

Posted on September 04, 2008
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: According to a National Alliance for Public Charter Schools study of districts with over 10,000 students, in the 2006-2007 school year Camden with 13 percent of its students in charter schools joined Philadelphia as one of the top 10 of districts nationally with the highest charter participation...

Swedish Study: ?Men?s Fidelity Controlled By Cheating Genetics?

Posted on September 04, 2008
WNBC reports: A new study has found similarities in the genetics of cheating rodents and those belonging to men who cheat on their mates . . . The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, studied the genetics of cheating. Researchers there said the cheating allele regulates the activity of a hormone in the brain that can [...

Abstinence education: A program that survives scrutiny

Posted on September 03, 2008
?Abstinence education is a failure.? Variations of that message are beginning to pop up in the media once again in light of recent events calling into question the effectiveness of these programs. There?s just one significant problem: It?s not true.

Kane County, IL Court Grants Planned Parenthood License to Lie

Posted on September 03, 2008
A Kane County, Ill., circuit court's decision yesterday to dismiss a libelous ad and letter in a lawsuit filed against Planned Parenthood of Illinois and Director Steve Trombley could have far-reaching consequences for free speech rights throughout the state.

Young pro-lifers jailed, shackled, strip searched for peacefully sharing message

Posted on September 03, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund and allied attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Harford County, the town of Bel Air, and seven police officials on behalf of three young, pro-life women.

Christians in Pakistan live in fear and constant threat

Posted on September 03, 2008
The secretary of the Catholic Biblical Commission of Pakistan and pastor in Lahore, Father Emmanuel Asi, explained this week that Christians in the country live ?in fear and constant threat,? as they are considered to be part of the lowest level of society, they are persecuted, exploited in the work place and discriminated against in a nation that is 95% Muslim...