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For Coach, God and Archery Are a Package Deal

Posted on August 21, 2008
The NY Times reports: During the Olympics, Lee and at least three of the five United States archers who qualified to compete in Beijing met every morning to sing hymns and read from the Bible, and to attend church together in the chapel at the Olympic Village...

Personnel Changes At Two Federal Religion Agencies

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom announced yesterday that James D. Standish has been appointed its new Executive Director . . . Meanwhile, The Roundtable reports that Jay Hein, director of the White House Office on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, has resigned effective August 29 in order to care [...

Generals Criticized For Endorsing Spiritual Book

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: Military.com reported yesterday on the controversy surrounding the endorsement by high army officials of a book written by a military chaplain offering spiritual guidance to soldiers. The book is Lt. Col. William McCoy’s, Under Orders: A Spiritual Handbook for Military Personnel...

Virginia: City code could close sex video business after obscenity conviction

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Staunton Leader reports: After Hours Video remains open after being found guilty of obscenity charges. But a city code could force owner Rick Krial to close doors . . . Under city code, that permit could be revoked if employees or associates of the adult business are convicted of the ?dissemination of obscenity? at [...

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Study: Vouchers improve education

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Columbus Dispatch reports: Ohio’s private-school voucher program isn’t just great for the students who use it, a new study asserts, but it’s actually made public schools better. It was the first sizable study of the statewide voucher program, now in its third year...

ACLU appeals federal decision in Ga. prayer case

Posted on August 21, 2008
Al.com reports: Civil liberties attorneys Wednesday urged a federal appeals panel to block a suburban Atlanta county from allowing clergy to open meetings with Christian prayers, although the judges seemed reluctant to overturn a lower court’s ruling upholding the practice...

La. gov won?t renew anti-discrimination order

Posted on August 21, 2008
The AP reports: “An anti-discrimination order put in place by former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco four years ago won’t be renewed by Gov. Bobby Jindal when it expires Friday . . . Jindal said Wednesday that discrimination is prohibited under state and federal laws and he doesn’t want to create more special categories by executive [...

Denver: ?Gays arrive to push anti-bias agenda?

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Denver Post reports: “When nearly 360 openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender delegates descend on Denver today, four days before the Democratic National Convention, they will discuss equal rights and anti-discrimination laws.” Visit Site » Share This

Bush plan would blunt state birth control law

Posted on August 21, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: A proposed Bush administration regulation on contraception and abortion would stop California from enforcing a state law that requires Catholic hospitals and charities to provide birth control coverage for thousands of female employees, state Attorney General Jerry Brown and family-planning advocates said Wednesday...

ACLU: End Beating of Children in Public Schools

Posted on August 21, 2008
The ACLU has issued this press release: More than 200,000 US public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006-2007 school year, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report released today . . . In the 125-page report, “A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in U...

ACLU: ?Federal Court Rules U.S. Government May Not Deliberately Subvert California?s Medical Marijuana Laws?

Posted on August 21, 2008
The ACLU has issued this news release that reports: In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a federal court today held that the U.S. Constitution bars deliberate subversion by the federal government of state medical marijuana laws . . . While previous high-profile cases affirmed the federal government?s power to enforce federal drug laws against individual medical marijuana [...

Australian Woman Dies from Taking Birth Control Pill

Posted on August 21, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: A 24 year old Australian woman’s death has been blamed on her use of oral contraceptive pills, which she was taking them as part of her acne treatment . . . The hospital’s director of emergency medicine, Associate Professor Graeme Thomson, said Tanya’s death had been “caused by blood clotting caused by factors [...

Lithuanian Government Bans EU Pro-Homosexual Tour Truck

Posted on August 21, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: A touring truck hired by the European Union to spread a message of acceptance of homosexuality has been banned from public property in Lithuania for the second consecutive year, reports the homosexual news service Pinknews.com ...

Federalist Society Online Debate: Same Sex ?Marriage?

Posted on August 21, 2008
Via Federalist Society: “University of Minnesota Law’s Dale Carpenter, Colorado Law’s Robert Nagel, Northwestern University Law’s Andy Koppelman, and the University of Pennsylvania Law’s Amy Wax debate whether or not the right to marry should be extended to same sex couples...

Pro-Life Group Urges Response to Biased Report on Abortion, Mental Health

Posted on August 21, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “One of the nation’s top pro-life organizations is asking pro-life advocates to contact the American Psychological Association and urge calls and emails concerning its recent abortion report. The APA dismissed insurmountable evidence that abortion causes mental health problems for women...

55 men netted in 8-month Calif. child porn probe

Posted on August 21, 2008
The AP reports: Authorities say a California sheriff’s deputy and an attorney were among 55 men charged with possessing child pornography after an eight-month investigation. Visit Site » Share This

6th Cir. Judges support Tenn. school?s Confederate flag ban

Posted on August 21, 2008
The AP reports: A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday in favor of a Tennessee school system that banned the Confederate battle flag because of concerns the symbol could inflame racial tensions at a high school . . . The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pointed to those incidents in ruling that school officials had [...

Fla. town backs ex-principal in ?gay student? case as ?sensitivity? training begins

Posted on August 21, 2008
When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children . . .

?Gay Activist Tim Gill Rewards N.Y. Lawmakers Who Voted to Gut Marriage?

Posted on August 21, 2008
Citizen Link reports: The (New York) Sun reported that the four lawmakers, who rarely raise money from outside their districts, have benefited from a fund-raising network stretching to at least nine states. Not surprisingly, the Gill Action Fund is behind many of those donations...

Democrats Move Left on Abortion

Posted on August 21, 2008
Naomi Schaefer Riley has this report in the Wall Street Journal that concludes: Next week, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr. will be giving a speech at the convention in Denver. Mr. Casey, whose father, a former governor of Pennsylvania, was not allowed to address the 1992 Democratic convention because of his pro-life views, is now carrying [...

Ex Post Facto Clause Error in Trafficking Case Prompts New Trial

Posted on August 21, 2008
Mark Hamblett reports in the National Law Journal: A man accused of human trafficking under the guise of a consensual sadomasochistic relationship will get a new trial because of the ex post facto clause to the U.S. Constitution. Glenn Marcus was convicted in the Eastern District of New York of sex trafficking and forced labor under the [...

NH: Town alters policy after flier lawsuit, attempts to restrict forum rather than allow free speech

Posted on August 21, 2008
The Nashua Telegraph reports: Things aren’t looking good for the Hudson School District’s chances in federal court. Superintendent Randy Bell said lawyers have told him case law is “stacked against” the district in a federal lawsuit over the distribution of fliers advertising a summer Bible school ...

In Idaho, It?s a Race Between Two Law Schools, One Private, One Public

Posted on August 21, 2008
Peter Page reports in the National Law Journal: The University of Idaho is proposing to open a law school campus in Boise, the state capital, before a private law school does. Donald L. Burnett Jr., dean of the public University of Idaho College of Law, argues in a proposal to be heard next week by the [...

?Little guy? wins porn conviction - why can?t the feds?

Posted on August 21, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: Pat Trueman, special counsel to the�Alliance Defense Fund and former chief obscenity prosecutor for the Justice Department, explains why he feels the conviction “reverberates across the nation.” “You had a porn shop move into Staunton, Virginia — and the prosecutor said, ‘Wait a minute!� You’re not going to sell obscenity in my town...

The Real Story of the Democrats? Abortion Plank

Posted on August 21, 2008
Steve Walden has this post on the Wall Street Journal’s Political Perceptions Blog. He writes: ?We put a woman?s right to choose in a lock box and strengthened the language significantly,? he says. ?We needed it to assure that we were not backtracking...

The Perils of a Lower Drinking Age

Posted on August 21, 2008
Steve Chapman has this commentary on Townhall. He begins: Life is full of surprises, and some 100 college presidents think they have stumbled on one. They think there is too much problem drinking on campus — no surprise there — and suggest we might solve the problem by changing the drinking age...

Rebecca Hagelin: The Culture Battle

Posted on August 21, 2008
Rebecca Hagelin has this article on Townhall: How are you doing in your fight against a culture that’s gone stark raving mad? The real-life headlines for some parents have been more like nightmares . . . I’m working now on a parenting ?how to? book (due out just before Mother?s Day, 2009), and I?d like to [...

Lesbian?s ?Right? to Insemination Shouldn?t Trump Conscience, Doctors Say

Posted on August 21, 2008
CNSNews reports: Physician?s groups, religious rights attorneys, and pro-life groups say a California Supreme Court decision issued Monday takes away the right of doctors not to violate their own consciences ? and they vow to fight it. ?It really is as if California has banned its citizens from having moral consciences,? said Gary McCaleb, senior counsel [...

?Now on the Hallmark aisle: Gay marriage cards?

Posted on August 21, 2008
The AP reports: Most states don’t recognize gay marriage — but now Hallmark does. The nation’s largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards — featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside...

Online Swingers? Club Connects 3 Dead in Zimmerman Murder-Suicide

Posted on August 20, 2008
Three people connected through an online swingers' club are dead in an apparent double murder-suicide.

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