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Pa. town sued after rejecting pole-dancing studio

Posted on August 29, 2008
The AP reports: A woman has sued a town that refused to allow her to open a dance studio that featured pole-dancing exercise classes on the grounds it was a sexually oriented business. Adams Township officials violated Stephanie Babines’ right to free expression by denying her an occupancy permit, the American Civil Liberties Union claims in [...

?Birmingham gays sue mayor?

Posted on August 29, 2008
365Gay.com reports: Gay pride organizers in Birmingham have filed a civil rights lawsuit against Mayor Larry Langford over his refusal to allow Pride Week banners to be hung in the city. The lawsuit by Central Alabama Pride accuses the mayor of violating the organization?s constitutional rights when he barred city workers from hanging the banners on [...

Obama Hints at Positions on Abortion and ?Gay Marriage?

Posted on August 29, 2008
Citizen Link reports: “In the course of his lengthy acceptance speech this evening, Sen. Barack Obama devoted only five lines to the issues of marriage and abortion, but he made clear he continues to hold liberal positions on both.” Visit Site » Share This

Clinton Impeachment Prosecutor Appointed to Florida Supreme Court

Posted on August 29, 2008
The AP reports: “Appellate Judge Charles Canady, who as a congressman helped prosecute then-President Bill Clinton at his 1999 impeachment trial, was appointed Thursday to the Florida Supreme Court by Gov. Charlie Crist.” Visit Site » Share This

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Stay Remains in N.Y. Judges? Suit to Raise Their Own Pay

Posted on August 29, 2008
Noeleen G. Walder reports in the New York Law Journal: The stay of a June court order that gave the New York Legislature and governor 90 days to raise the pay of the state’s 1,300 judges will remain in effect, a state appeals court has ruled. However, the Appellate Division, 1st Department, has established an expedited [...

Mexican Supreme Court Upholds Legal Abortion

Posted on August 28, 2008
The AP reports: “Mexico’s Supreme Court voted 8-3 Thursday to uphold legal abortion in the capital, opening the possibility that similar measures could be adopted elsewhere in Mexico - and perhaps beyond.” Visit Site » Share This

SC: Man killed in fight at strip club

Posted on August 28, 2008
FoxCarolina.com reports: “Deputies said a man was beaten to death early Thursday morning during a fight at a Greenville County nightclub.” Visit Site » Share This

CWA: Sex Traffickers? Tactics and Targets Revealed

Posted on August 28, 2008
Concerned Women has posted this audio report on this topic: “The worldwide shame of sex trafficking is flourishing here in the United States as well. Dr. Janice Crouse, Senior Fellow and Director of CWA’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, says details are emerging about how American teens are being targeted and trafficked right here at home...

Democrats for Life speakers discuss abortion risks of domestic abuse, cancer, infertility

Posted on August 28, 2008
CNA reports: “The Democrats for Life town hall meeting on Wednesday in Denver, in addition to policy proposals and cultural analysis, examined the consequences of abortion, naming the abortion-related risks of domestic violence, infertility, and cancer as reasons to advocate abortion reduction programs...

Presidential Proclamation: National Days of Prayer and Remembrance, 2008

Posted on August 28, 2008
"We ask the Almighty to watch over America and pray for His providence and continued blessings on our country. May He always guide the United States of America."

Prayer and Politics Do Mix, Says National Priests? Leader

Posted on August 28, 2008
Fr. Frank Pavone: Wisdom means that we see things from God's perspective . . . and discern what's important . . . we realize that when the state fails to protect the right to life, it ceases to be a true democracy and instead becomes a tyrant . . . "

Richard Garnett to Douglas Kmiec: Roe is incompatible with democratic self-government

Posted on August 28, 2008
Notre Dame Law Prof. Richard Garnett has this response on National Review’s Bench Memos blog to recent arguments by Pepperdine Law Professor Douglas Kmiec, who is supporting Obama, on the issue of abortion: More relevant, perhaps, to the Bench Memos conversation, though, is this: The grave, distorting wrong that Roe and the abortion license work [...

New Yorkers Contracting HIV at 3 Times National Rate

Posted on August 28, 2008
The AP reports that New Yorkers are being afflicted with the HIV virus at 3x the national rate.� The report indicates: “Health officials attribute the city’s relatively high rate of new infections to its large populations of gay men, blacks and other groups on whom HIV has traditionally taken a heavy toll...

Albert Mohler: When Conscience and Medical Practice Collide

Posted on August 28, 2008
Albert Mohler has this post on his blog. He writes: A revealing look into the thinking of those who want conscience clauses eliminated or severely curtailed is found in a recent op-ed column contributed to The Los Angeles Times.� In “When Religion and Healthcare Collide,” Professor Richard P...

Maryland: Store sheds ?adult? label by packing in new material

Posted on August 28, 2008
ExploreHoward.com reports: The sign outside the Pack Shack might advertise adult videos in large letters, but in the eyes of the county, the controversial business no longer qualifies as an “adult” store. As a result, a decade-long effort by the county to shut down the Route 40 store may be over ...

Mich. Law School to Pay Students $5K for Public Interest Internships

Posted on August 28, 2008
The ABA Journal reports: “The University of Michigan law school has announced it will pay $5,000 to second-year law students who intern with qualified government or public interest groups.” Visit Site » Share This

Writer points out media bias in report on ADF involving Maryland transgender suit

Posted on August 28, 2008
Gazette.net carries this letter to the editor by Robert McDermott. It points out media bias in a report involving the battle over a transgender law in Maryland. Mr. McDermott begins: Poor reporting is demonstrated in the description of the transgender bill fracas (”Maryland’s highest court agrees to hear transgender appeal,” Aug...

New Orleans: Another storm threatens Southern Decadence

Posted on August 28, 2008
365gay.com reports that a hurricane is threatening the South’s largest homosexual party once again. “For the second time in three years a massive storm is threatening to scuttle Southern Decadence.” Visit Site » Share This

Talk a Woman out of Abortion in the UK? Two Years Jail

Posted on August 28, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Crisis pregnancy centres, as well as doctors, nurses and midwives, may be subject to prosecution and a two-year jail sentence if they convince a woman to forego an abortion. Under a proposed amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, those groups advertising services to pregnant women who provide “false information” or even [...

Conservatism and the hook-up culture on campus: Prof. Robert George on CNN?s Glenn Beck Show

Posted on August 28, 2008
Robert George recently appeared on the CNN’s Glenn Beck show to discuss conservativism and the hook up culture on college campuses. The First Things Blog links to an audio and transcript of the appearance. Visit Site » Share This

Chechen president to inaugurate ?largest mosque in Europe?

Posted on August 28, 2008
The Jerusalem Post reports: The Russian-backed Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will inaugurate the “largest mosque in Europe” on October 17 in Chechnya, the Russian official news agency Novosty reported. Over 10,000 worshipers will be able to pray inside the mosque, which will be named after the president’s father, Ahmad Kadyrov, who was killed in 2004 [...

Republican Party Platform Calls for Ban on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Posted on August 28, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “The Republican party platform committee has released a platform that contains some of the strongest pro-life language in the history of the party. Looking at bioethics issues, it also strengthens the language on stem cell research by calling for a ban on not just funding of it but of the unethical science in [...

ABA Gives Thumbs Up to Legal Outsourcing

Posted on August 28, 2008
Anthony Lin reports in the New York Law Journal: The American Bar Association has waded into the debate over legal outsourcing with an ethics opinion blessing the outsourcing trend as “a salutary one for our globalized economy.” A growing number of legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies have sprouted up in recent years to offer the services [...

ACLU sues over prayers at Florida High School

Posted on August 28, 2008
The ACLU has issued this press release that indicates: “The lawsuit reveals a repeated pattern by school officials ? including Santa Rosa County School Board members and Pace High School Principal H. Frank Lay ? of promoting and endorsing prayers at graduation ceremonies and other school events, of sponsoring religious ceremonies and [...

Fiji Human Rights Commission Says Methodist Conversion Plans Are Unconstitutional

Posted on August 28, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, the Human Rights Commission (press release) has warned that plans by the country’s Methodist Church Conference to focus evangelizing efforts on the country’s Indian population would violate Fiji’s constitution as well as principles of international law” ...

We Need a National Market for Health Insurance

Posted on August 28, 2008
Grace-Marie Turner has this commentary in the Wall Street Journal. She writes: . . . A new study by University of Minnesota researchers Stephen Parente and Roger Feldman shows that Congress could boost by more than 12 million the number of people who have health insurance without spending taxpayer dollars...

California: Nudists Want State to Look the Other Way

Posted on August 28, 2008
The NY Times reports: Another sunny afternoon here in a remote patch of San Onofre State Beach, where birthday suits far outnumber bathing ones . . . But the scores of nudists at this popular spot, 60 miles south of Los Angeles, are violating a ban on nudity at state parks...

What control do non-custodial parents have over educational decisions? 2nd Circuit certifies question to NY high court

Posted on August 28, 2008
Critical to this question is whether, under New York law, a biological and non-custodial parent of a child retains the right to make decisions regarding the child?s education where the divorce decree and custody order are silent . . .

?Poll: California voters oppose ban on gay marriage?

Posted on August 28, 2008
The AP reports: “A majority of California voters oppose a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage, though they are evenly split on the practice itself, according to a poll released Wednesday.” The full report by the Public Policy Institute of California is linked here...

Pelosi gets unwanted lesson in Catholic theology

Posted on August 28, 2008
Cardinal Egan: Anyone who dares to defend that they [the unborn] may be legitimately killed because another human being ?chooses? to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy . . .

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