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Connecticut: Stripper dies, found unconscious in strip club

Posted on September 02, 2008
Newsday reports: “Waterbury police say a 21-year-old exotic dancer, who died a day after she was found unconscious in a strip club over the weekend, may have died from a drug overdose.” Visit Site » Share This

Suicide Bill Approved by California Legislature Awaits Action by Gov. Schwarzenegger

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Americans United for Life Blog carries this post that indicates: “California AB 2747, a bill promoting suicide, passed the California Assembly this past Thursday by a 42-32 vote. If Gov. Schwarzenegger does not sign or veto the bill within twelve days after the bill is presented to him by the Assembly, it will become [...

Lambda Legal: ?Gay Couple Settles Lawsuit against University of Hawai`i Following Denial of Family Housing?

Posted on September 02, 2008
Lambda Legal has issued this press release that begins: A gay couple not allowed to move back into family housing at the University of Hawai`i, Mânoa, has settled their lawsuit against the school. The University has revised its housing policy to provide accommodation for committed same-sex couples like Joe and Phi, and the lawsuit settled [...

Your Tax Dollars Fund Planned Parenthood?s Shocking New Web Site For Youth

Posted on September 02, 2008
Liberty Counsel has issued this press release that begins: Planned Parenthood, the billion dollar corporate abortion mill, has taken indecency to a whole new level and is using your taxpayer dollars to spread its harmful propaganda. A new Planned Parenthood promotional Web site (www...

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Matt Bowman: Playing god while lamenting religion in politics

Posted on September 02, 2008
Abortion advocates are actually inserting religion into the abortion debate . . . Instead of using science, like pro-lifers do, they judge for themselves and for the rest of us which human beings can be killed . . . They play God.

Log Cabin Republicans endorse McCain, 48% of Republican delegates back marriage redefinition or civil unions

Posted on September 02, 2008
Atlantic.com reports: “A CBS News / New York Times poll finds that 48% of Republican delegates support either gay marriage or civil unions for gay people.” The Nation carries this report: What Republican Delegates Believe. It indicates: ** 9 percent believe abortion should be generally available, while 38 percent advocated stricter limits and 43 percent said [...

YouTube Censors Investigative Videos Critical of Planned Parenthood

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Christian Newswire carries this report that begins: YouTube, the popular Internet-video website, blocked four videos from the pro-life student organization Live Action over the past two weeks, saying that the videos contained “inappropriate content”...

GOP Convention: 250 protesters arrested, including Amy Goodman

Posted on September 02, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: “Police used pepper spray and tear gas to quell breakaway demonstrators from an otherwise peaceful anti-war demonstration Monday outside the Republican National Convention, after the splinter groups smashed department store and police car windows...

Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

Posted on September 02, 2008
The TaxProf Blog has posted a listing of fellowships for aspiring law professors. Visit Site » Share This

TIME Magazine: ?Was a Would-Be Saint Gay??

Posted on September 02, 2008
TIME magazine offers this report: The long-running battle between gay rights activists and the Vatican has moved into the realm of the dead. With 19th century Anglican convert Cardinal John Henry Newman, arguably the greatest Catholic thinker from the English-speaking world, moving ever closer to sainthood, trouble is brewing over where his final resting place should [...

Law schools ranked for clinical programs

Posted on September 02, 2008
Legal Blog Watch reports: Yale University Law School far outranks other law schools in the number of clinical opportunities it offers students, according to a ranking published in the September issue of National Jurist. . . . National Jurist ranked ABA-approved law schools based on the total number of full-time clinical course positions offered per the number [...

More On Sarah Palin, Her Religion and Her Views On Church-State Issues

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog has this post that begins: “Yesterday I reported on information that was initially available about Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s religious beliefs and views on church-state issues. In the last 36-hours, many additional pieces of information have been found by bloggers and reporters...

8th Circuit Interprets Non-Curriculum Group For Purposes of Equal Access

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog describes and links to the ruling: “Straights and Gays for Equality (SAGE) v. Osseo Area Schools, (8th Cir., Aug. 29, 2008). “Applying a definition of non-curriculum related groups developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1990 case, the 8th Circuit decided that another school group that plans school dances and [...

NY: Same-sex marriage directive upheld in state court

Posted on September 02, 2008
"A state Supreme Court judge ruled today that Gov. David Paterson's directive in May to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries is legal in New York . . . "

Does the Constitutional Norm of Separation of Church and State Justify the Denial of Tax Exemption to Churches that Engage in Partisan Political Speech

Posted on September 02, 2008
Johnny Rex Buckles, Does the Constitutional Norm of Separation of Church and State Justify the Denial of Tax Exemption to Churches that Engage in Partisan Political Speech?, Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 84, (2009). The Internal Revenue Service is aggressively investigating churches for their alleged political endorsements of candidates in the 2008 presidential election...

New Blog: ?All the letters not fit to print? for those tired of the media?s effort to silence opposition to the ?gay lobby?

Posted on September 02, 2008
Jennifer Roback Morse has grown weary of media efforts to silence opposition to the homosexual agenda. She has started a new blog urging readers to copy their letters to her so that she can publish them when the so-called mainstream media won’t...

US, Europe Mount Opposition To Defamation of Religion Call At UN

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: Today’s Washington Times reports that the U.S., European governments and religious rights organizations are making a new push to prevent the United Nations General Assembly this fall from adopting a renewal of the “Combating Defamation of Religion” resolution that is sponsored each year by the Organization of the Islamic Conference ...

Joe Martins on Wallbuilders Live: Pro-lifers on campus

Posted on September 02, 2008
ADF attorney Joe Martins appeared on Wallbuilders Live to discuss the right of pro-life students to express their views on college campuses. The mp3 file runs just under 12 minutes and is here. Related: Wayne State University denies funds, access to pro-life student group Share This

Erik Stanley on Wallbuilders: Pastors need not fear the IRS

Posted on September 02, 2008
ADF attorney Erik Stanley appeared on Wallbuilders Live to discuss ADF’s Pulpit Initiative. The mp3 file runs just over 12 minutes and is here. Share This

School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Recent Evidence, Remaining Questions.

Posted on September 02, 2008
The National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education has issued a paper that is introduced with this abstract: 163. School Vouchers and Student Achievement: Recent Evidence, Remaining Questions. 2008. Author: Cecilia Elena Rouse and Lisa Barrow In this article, we review the empirical evidence on the impact of education vouchers on student achievement, and briefly discuss [...

Law named for slain Laci Peterson, unborn son yet to be tested

Posted on September 02, 2008
McClatchy News carries this report: Congress commemorated the slain California woman by passing the controversial Laci and Conner’s Law and creating a new federal crime of killing an unborn child . . . The rhetoric was emphatic on all sides. The bill was a lifesaver, supporters said...

Federal court considers issue of whether the U.S. is at war

Posted on September 02, 2008
How Appealing links to an opinion by the United States for the District of Massachusetts that considers the question of whether the United States is at war. The opinion: United States v. Prosperi, No. 06-10116-RGS (D. Mass. Aug. 28, 2008) Share This

Free Exercise, Free Speech, and ?Mere Religious Worship?

Posted on September 02, 2008
Religious groups for years, as seen in the opening stories, have exercised their religion in public spaces.

?Founders? prayer violated Constitution as they wrote it?

Posted on September 02, 2008
Bob Unruh has this report on WorldNetDaily that begins: Officials in Mesa County, Colo., who have been warned by atheists and “freethinkers” that they are being watched, have been told they will get help if they are sued over a policy that allows invocations to open public meetings in the Western Colorado region...

November Ballots Include Abortion Issues

Posted on September 02, 2008
The Washington Post reports: A ballot initiative on abortion in South Dakota this November could lead to a series of court challenges and ultimately to the Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, antiabortion activists say ...

8th Circuit: Students have right to wear armbands to protest dress code

Posted on September 02, 2008
The constitutionality of the uniform policy is not at issue?it has been deemed constitutional. We find defendants' attempts to meaningfully distinguish Tinker unconvincing. We hold that Tinker . . . is dispositive.

When sex becomes an addiction

Posted on September 02, 2008
Elizabeth Landau has this report on CNN. She writes: It turns out sex addiction, also called compulsive sexual behavior, operates somewhat like a gambling compulsion or alcoholism: It’s about devoting your free time to a behavior that you cannot stop, even if you damage relationships or prompt other negative consequences...

Abortion, Forced Eviction from our First Home: Compassionate people don?t support baby killing

Posted on September 02, 2008
Keith Fournier has this article on Catholic.org discussing efforts by “Catholic” Democrats to convince others that their stand on abortion is acceptable. He writes: People are sick and tired of the lie behind the claims of compassion and the expression of ?concern for the common good? coming from some who are attempting to persuade Catholics and [...

Palin?s daughter: 17 and pregnant

Posted on September 02, 2008
Santorum added: "You don't want to see [her] obviously, getting involved in sex outside of marriage. That's not a good thing. ... You take something that is not a good thing . . . and you turn it into the best thing possible . . .

Corvino: Why moral approval matters

Posted on September 02, 2008
365gay.com carries this article by John Corvino. He writes: Seriously: no matter how many times I hear this complaint - and it?s pretty often - it still surprises me. Of course I want people to think that homosexuality is morally equivalent to heterosexuality...

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