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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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WI: Attorney General taking on Internet predators

Posted on August 11, 2008
Wisconsin State Attorney General, J.B. Van Hollen, said his office has identified approximately 15,000 computers in the state that are being used by sexual predators to exchange child porn and sexually explicit chat rooms.

El Paso: County names components it wants in sexually-oriented business ordinance

Posted on August 11, 2008
Commissioners Court on Monday revised some of the items it would like in a sexually-oriented-business ordinance for unincorporated areas of the county.

Volokh: Strict Liability, Constitutional Rights, Guns, Speech, Abortion, and Underage Sex

Posted on August 11, 2008
Eugene Volokh has this post about the effect of strict liability laws on certain protected constitutional rights

NJ: ?Gay marriage?Not if, but when?

Posted on August 11, 2008
Backers of same-sex marriage in New Jersey believe they have the wind at their backs. They are confident the state will replace civil unions for gay couples with full civil-marriage rights.

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Dem Party Platform?s New Abortion Language

Posted on August 11, 2008
The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.

University of California?s rejection of Christian school courses upheld

Posted on August 11, 2008
a California federal district court upheld the University of California's refusal to recognized certain high school courses offered by Christian schools in making admissions decisions

Hidden epidemic: Children recruited to be sex slaves

Posted on August 11, 2008
History teachers tell students that slavery ended in the U.S. in 1865, but sources tell WTOP that a "hidden epidemic" of child sex-slavery persists in this area and nationwide.

HSLDA: ?Germany Declares War on Home-Schoolers?

Posted on August 11, 2008
And at the same time that the German government is persecuting home-schoolers in Germany, including Americans who want to homeschool there, Berlin is encouraging its diplomats abroad, including its diplomats in Washington, to home school their children with a state homeschooling curriculum.

?Santeria priest won?t let religious freedom be sacrificed?

Posted on August 11, 2008
Soon thereafter, word of the raid made its way to the great defender of Santeria in the United States. That would be Ernesto Pichardo -- high priest, physical extension of the fire spirit Shango and co-founder of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, the first incorporated Santeria church in the nation.

Uproar Over Loud Prayer Calls in Muslim Morocco

Posted on August 11, 2008
But the rising decibel level is deepening fault lines between a government drive to modernize and a wave of rigorous political Islam.

CMI: ?NBC Drops the Ball on Teen Sex?

Posted on August 11, 2008
NBC first dropped the ball in a discussion of abstinence. One of the biggest criticisms of the The Baby Borrowers was that it sent a mixed message. On one hand, it claimed to show teens how difficult parenting is, but on the other hand it essentially condoned premarital sex by allowing the unsupervised teen couples to share beds during the series.

Islam Without Apologetics

Posted on August 11, 2008
According to received wisdom, an Islamic faith that once tolerantly coexisted with Jews and Christians has been traumatized by the twentieth century and its destructive ideologies (such as fascism, communism, and nationalism), by the depredations of European colonialism and imperialism, and by the displacements wrought by globalization.

Islamic Algeria enforces worship restrictions

Posted on August 11, 2008
Most of the closures stem from enforcement of Ordinance 06-03, a law restricting non-Muslims from worshiping.

ADF asks Supreme Court to hear Mich. student religious speech case

Posted on August 11, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, asking the court to consider whether a fifth-grade student?s religious expression on a classroom project may be categorically identified as ?offensive? and therefore legitimately censored by Michigan school officials.

ADF today: Mike Johnson to debate Temple U. speech code on Fox News Channel

Posted on August 11, 2008
At 2:30 PM Arizona time, ADF Senior Legal Counsel Mike Johnson will debate Tempe University professor Dr. Mark Lamont Hill on the Fox News Channel about the recent win at the 3rd Circuit regarding Temple?s speech code.

Malaysia: Muslim protest halts forum on religion

Posted on August 11, 2008
Protesters forced lawyers in Malaysia to abandon a conference on religious conversion Saturday, decrying it as an effort to challenge the official status of Islam in this Muslim-majority country.

President Bush Says No One Should Fear Religious Freedom, Ends Asia Trip

Posted on August 11, 2008
"You know, it just goes to show that God is universal, and God is love, and no state, man or woman should fear the influence of loving religion."

When it comes to obscenity enforcement, the leading candidates are silent

Posted on August 11, 2008
Can it be that John McCain and Barack Obama are more concerned about offending avid consumers of hardcore pornography than they are about the harms that obscenity is causing to our nation and to its communities, families and children?

The LA Times confuses the same-sex ?marriage? issue

Posted on August 11, 2008
The editors of the paper write as if the May 15, 2008 decision of the California Supreme Court is unassailable, unchangeable, and irreversible.

The Conservative Legal Movement?s Legitimacy Crisis

Posted on August 11, 2008
In short, the crime of the Supreme Court since the 1930?s, so says this book, has been its refusal to lock in the laissez faire constitutional philosophy that reigned supreme in the decades leading up the New Deal. And that, of course, is the Constitution in Exile line pure and simple.

OH: Court dismisses ACLU Contempt Charge over 10 Commandments poster

Posted on August 11, 2008
The ACLU charged that Judge DeWeese's display of the poster ? which graphically compares and contrasts the Ten Commandments with Seven Humanist Principles ? violated a 2002 injunction barring him from displaying a poster consisting solely of the Ten Commandments under the caption ?Rule of Law...

Mike Leavitt: Physician Conscience

Posted on August 11, 2008
The Bush Administration has consistently supported the unborn. However, the issue I asked to be addressed in this regulation is not abortion or contraceptives, but the legal right medical practitioners have to practice according to their conscience

ADF attorneys file brief supporting ?moment of silence? in Texas

Posted on August 11, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Monday in defense of a Texas law requiring students to observe one minute of silence following the Pledge of Allegiance.

Federal Court Rules That Schools Must Stop Discriminating Against ?Good News Clubs?

Posted on August 11, 2008
Today, a federal court ruled in favor of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Virginia (CEF), granting an injunction against the Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools.

Temple University?s ?Speech Code? ruled unconstitutional

Posted on August 11, 2008
Attorney David Hacker is with the Alliance Defense Fund. He says DeJohn knew about Temple's 'Speech Code,' which, he says, "is a harassment policy that is so vaguely worded and so broad in its language that, really, university administrators were able to punish any sort of speech that they deemed offensive.