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NYT: Confronting Choice

Posted on September 03, 2008
How?s it playing in the heartland? ?I hope it plays everywhere, every day,? writes Scott Fluhr, the conservative Hoosierpundit. ?The more Hoosiers hear from Barack Obama about abortion, the more they?re going to also be reminded about his radical opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and his support for infanticide...

Marriage off the table for most pregnant teens

Posted on September 03, 2008
Of all the options facing teenagers grappling with an unplanned pregnancy, marriage is rarely a choice, say adolescent health experts.

?Gay cleric?s bid to be bishop in Wales?

Posted on September 03, 2008
A controversial gay clergyman is in the running to become one of the highest ranking churchmen in Wales.

The Numbers on Teen Pregnancy

Posted on September 03, 2008
That said, it got me to thinking about a real political issue that Palin?s pregnancy represents: the effects of young motherhood. So I asked Janet Currie, a Columbia economist who has done good and vast research on parenthood and childhood, if she could roll up some of her thinking on the subject.

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Biographer of Cardinal Newman answers calumnies of homosexual lobby

Posted on September 03, 2008
Ian Ker, an expert biographer of English convert Cardinal John Henry Newman, answered the calumnies leveled against the Servant of God in recent weeks by the homosexual lobby, saying he was buried in the tomb of the Father Ambrose St. John because that was his desire and that the two enjoyed a close friendship.

New Pro-Life Movie Could Impact Presidential Elections

Posted on September 03, 2008
"This movie tells how Roe v. Wade can be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Moviegoers were excited or agitated on both sides because the movie shows in dramatic fashion just how flimsy the legal footing stands for Roe.

Nebraska: Council passes adult business ordinance ? again

Posted on September 03, 2008
An ordinance that would regulate sexually oriented businesses and was vetoed by Mayor G. Keith Richardson last July, passed on its first reading before the council on the second go around.

Florida: Palm Bay advances adult business law

Posted on September 03, 2008
The Palm Bay City Council on Tuesday night gave preliminary approval to an ordinance limiting the areas where adult-oriented businesses could open shop. The vote was 4-1.

Conservative Pi�era is Clear Frontrunner in Chile

Posted on September 03, 2008
Businessman Sebasti�n Pi�era is currently a strong contender in the next race for Chile?s presidency, according to a poll by La Tercera. 35 per cent of respondents would vote for the member of the conservative National Renewal (RN) in next year?s ballot.

?Gay Republicans: GOP on wrong side of history?

Posted on September 03, 2008
A group of gay and lesbian Republicans has traveled to the site of the GOP convention this week to help convince its party that it is time to stop being on the "wrong side" of the same-sex marriage issue.

V.P. selection brings Focus on Family on board

Posted on September 03, 2008
Kevin Clarkson, an Anchorage attorney who does work for the Alliance Defense Fund - loosely linked to Focus on the Family - knew of Palin's work dating back to 1998 when she supported Alaska's ballot measure outlawing gay marriage.

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

Posted on September 03, 2008
?The I.R.S. goes, and it?s scouring the Internet looking for trouble," said Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel for a conservative Christian group called the Alliance Defense Fund, which defends clergy members accused of partisan activities. ?It is our contention that in church it is the pastor who should determine what is said, not the I...

Greg Sisk: Bearing Witness to Life and Personal Biography

Posted on September 03, 2008
First, let us consider the message: When one of our major presidential candidates was asked point-blank about the human rights of the newest members of our human family, he responded with an equally direct and unequivocal answer: ?At the moment of conception...

Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy

Posted on September 03, 2008
This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example.

Dr. Dobson Prays for Palin Family

Posted on September 03, 2008
The fact is that Christianity means more than simply avoiding the wrong, because in this life none of us can accomplish that. It means repenting of the wrong and then making it right, thereby encouraging the wronged parties to forgive.

John Leland and James Madison: Religious Influence on the Ratification of the Constitution and on the Proposal of the Bill of Rights

Posted on September 03, 2008
Itinerant Baptist preacher John Leland (and Baptists generally) strongly influenced James Madison's elections to the Virginia ratifying convention and to the First Congress, with possibly substantial effects on American history.

Fr. Schall reviews ?Love and Economics? by Jennifer Roback Morse

Posted on September 03, 2008
At the same time, we read here an engaging, even graphic, account of the lived experiences of why a family is and must remain the center of any public order. Thus, in this sense, the book is one of the best explications we possess of what assumptions we have about the family.

Leaving Islam

Posted on September 03, 2008
Frontpage Interview?s guest today is Mohammad Asghar, an ex-Muslim who came out of Islam after discovering its true teachings.

Gainesville petition to overturn ?bizarre? bathroom law makes the ballot

Posted on September 03, 2008
A successful petition drive by a Gainesville, Florida civic group will place a Charter Amendment on the March 2009 ballot to revoke a Gainesville City Council decision legalizing the use of opposite-sex bathrooms by men who perceive themselves as women and vice versa.

Obama ad slams McCain on abortion rights

Posted on September 03, 2008
Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain?s opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign.

Florida: $30,000 settles lawsuit over cop?s pro-?gay? intimidation

Posted on September 03, 2008
A $30,000 settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by advocates for traditional family after a Florida cop working security for a conference badgered them and mocked marriage by kissing another male officer

From ?Evolutionary Theory and Law? to a ?Legal Evolutionary Theory?

Posted on September 03, 2008
The main objective of this article is to take the first step towards making evolutionary theory "our own discipline," by elevating evolutionary theory from the status of "cousin" to one of "sibling" (or at least "in-laws") of the legal family.

Choosing the most radical education reform there is - home school

Posted on September 03, 2008
The reason we?ve broken with tradition, or perhaps reverted to a deeper tradition, is not because we oppose sex education, or because we think their egos are too tender for public schools. It?s because we can do a superior job of educating our children...

Mark Steyn at Hillsdale College: ?Lights Out on Liberty?

Posted on September 03, 2008
Ultimately, our crisis is not about Islam. It?s not about fire-breathing Imams or polygamists whooping it up on welfare. It?s not about them. It?s about us.

The Role of Religion in the Defeat of the 1937 Court-Packing Plan

Posted on September 03, 2008
Religious issues and clergy played a prominent and now largely forgotten role in the defeat of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's controversial 1937 proposal to add six Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

What Californians Understand about Privacy Online

Posted on September 03, 2008
In order to gauge Californians' understanding of privacy policies and default rules in the online environment, we commissioned a representative survey of adults in the State (N=991). The telephonic survey of Spanish and English speakers was conducted by the Survey Research Center of University of California, Berkeley.

If Judges Were Angels: Religious Equality, Free Exercise, and the (Underappreciated) Merits of Smith

Posted on September 03, 2008
This Article posits two reasons for this result. First, pervasive social hostility to religions that maintain nontraditional belief systems leads judges to discount the relative importance of religiously motivated behavior that conflicts with a neutral law of general applicability

Maryland: Bouncer at Strip Club Slain

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Washington Post reports: “A former Marine was fatally shot late Thursday while working as a bouncer outside a Hyattsville strip club, Prince George’s County police said yesterday . . . Police initially said it appeared that Barron, who was not armed, was shot by a someone who refused to be frisked before entering the [...

California: ?Court Rejects Attempt to Keep Out Bible Club at High School?

Posted on September 02, 2008
Pacific Justice Institute has issued a press release that begins: “A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the Placentia-Yorba Linda School District for its denial of equal access to a Christian club on one of its high school campuses...

Judge rejects N.Y. strip club?s lawsuit

Posted on September 02, 2008
UPI reports: “A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by a New York strip club trying to prevent being stripped of its liquor license.” Visit Site » Share This

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