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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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India Court Rejects Late-Term Abortion on Supposedly Disabled Unborn Baby

Posted on August 04, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “After a panel of physicians weighed in on the case, the Bombay High Court on Monday denied a request from a couple who wanted a late-term abortion [...]

Democrats could have small fight over abortion language in platform

Posted on August 04, 2008
Baptist Press reports: On one side of the debate are Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo, two evangelicals who want language placed in the Democratic Party platform calling for a reduction in abortions. Campolo sits on the platform committee. On the other side of the debate are two staunch pro-choicers — Kate Michelman, former president of NARAL Pro-Choice [...

?Americans United Deplores Florida Court?s Decision Allowing Deceptive Amendments On November Ballot?

Posted on August 04, 2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has issued this press release that warns: If these amendments are voted into law, they will permit voucher subsidies for religious and other private schools in Florida and eliminate the state constitution?s language barring tax aid to religion...

9th Circuit hears dispute over church rights

Posted on August 04, 2008
The AP reports: Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church is appealing a 2006 decision by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy of Missoula, who ruled against the church and its lawsuit challenging a decision by the state commissioner of political practices. The commissioner, Gordon Higgins, found that Canyon Ferry violated state law by not reporting its in-kind support of [...

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?AIDS Prevention Focus Returns to Gay Men at Mexico Conference?

Posted on August 04, 2008
Bloomberg reports: “Discrimination against men who have sex with men must end, and countries must gear up prevention programs against AIDS in this high-risk group, the secretary general of the United Nations said yesterday.” Visit Site » Share This

Shearman & Sterling Sacks Associate After Strip Club Complaint

Posted on August 04, 2008
Jeremy Hodges reports on Legal Week: Shearman & Sterling has dismissed an associate in its London office after a vacation scheme student (the U.K. equivalent of a summer associate in the U.S.) made a formal complaint about his behavior during a night out...

3rd Circuit upholds ruling against Temple University ?speech code?

Posted on August 04, 2008
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit Monday upheld a federal judge?s ruling against Temple University?s former ?speech code.?

U.S. Supreme Court may have the opportunity to consider sex toys ban?

Posted on August 04, 2008
The 5th Circuit has denied rehearing en banc; thereby, upholding its earlier ruling which found a Texas ban on the promotion or sale of "sex toys" to be unconstitutional.

South Carolina Legislator Says Lord?s Prayer In New Display Law Is ?Poison Pill?

Posted on August 04, 2008
Religion Clause reports: [Sen. Shane Massey] . . .� says that the inclusion of the Lord’s Prayer, added through an amendment offered by Sen. Brad Hutto, a Democratic opponent of the entire bill, is a “poison pill” that now makes the law “constitutionally suspect”...

Vikram David Amar and Alan Brownstein: Religious Freedom vs. Same Sex ?Marriage?

Posted on August 04, 2008
Vikram David Amar and Alan Brownstein has published this commentary in Findlaw. They write: . . . The same law that causes no problem from a Protestant?s point of view may substantially burden the religious practices of a Jew, or a Catholic, or a Native American...

Thousands of D.C. families welcome school choice. Why doesn?t the city government?

Posted on August 04, 2008
The Washington Post reports: ANYONE LOOKING for a symbol of the contempt that D.C. officials show toward charter schools need go no further than 2501 11th St. NW. There sits the shuttered Meyer Elementary School. Three blocks away is a crowded charter school that desperately wants to lease the building...

Florida: Proposal ties school vouchers to more popular issue

Posted on August 04, 2008
The Orlando Sentinel reports: “A proposed state constitutional amendment offers what sounds like a simple and painless remedy for improving public education in Florida — require every school district to spend at least 65 percent of its money on classroom instruction...

Reviving the Culture Wars in the Academy

Posted on August 04, 2008
In a remarkably facile bit of reporting, Patricia Cohen, writing in The New York Times (July 3, 2008), claims that the young faculty slowly replacing Baby Boomers in the contemporary university are creatures of a decidedly more ?moderate? political stamp.

UK: What does the Catholic Church really think about embryo research?

Posted on August 04, 2008
What I have shown, I hope, is that it is reasonable (pdf), and not at all arbitrary, to take fertilisation as an ethical starting point, just as it is a scientific and legal starting point.

NYT: ?Weighing the Health Benefits of Birth Control?

Posted on August 04, 2008
Unveiled in 1960, the birth control pill revolutionized contraception. Yet despite an abundance of birth control options today, almost half the pregnancies in this country are unintended, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than in any other developed nation...

Russia mourns death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Posted on August 04, 2008
Reuters reports: Russians on Monday mourned Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the author and dissident whose criticism of the tyranny of Soviet rule made him one of the bravest figures of the 20th century. Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel literature laureate, died of heart failure late on Sunday in his Moscow home...

Cal. Prop. 4 abortion parental notification measure challenged in court

Posted on August 04, 2008
The LA Times reports: “The teen whose death led to calls for parental notification in abortion cases was married and had a child. Critics of California’s Prop. 4 file a suit asking to remove her story from the voter guide.” Visit Site » Share This

Texas: Medellin set to die Tuesday for Ertman-Pe�a killings

Posted on August 04, 2008
The Houston Chronicle has this report: “Texas. It’s like a whole other country.” Coined to promote tourism, that wry verbal wink at the state’s mythic image has assumed a literal meaning as Texas finds itself in defiance of the United Nations, the Organization of American States and national leaders in its planned Tuesday execution of Mexican citizen [...

The Emergence of First Amendment Academic Freedom

Posted on August 04, 2008
The idea of a constitutionally protected realm of academic freedom is controversial and judicially unsettled.

Globalization and International Law

Posted on August 04, 2008
The paper argues that globalization has had a significant impact on international law but that, in turn, international law could have a significant impact on globalization.

?N.J. justices add religion jokes to workplace ban?

Posted on August 04, 2008
How Appealing reports and links to the opinion: “Making jokes and comments about a person’s religion can create a ‘humiliating and painful environment’ and be a form of on-the-job discrimination, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday...

Massachusetts: ?Out-of-state gay couples apply for marriage licenses?

Posted on August 01, 2008
The Boston Globe reports: A day after Governor Deval Patrick signed a law allowing same-sex couples from out of state to get married here, a few couples are beginning to apply for marriage licenses. Six or seven marriage license applications have been filed in Provincetown, and more are expected this afternoon, said Assistant Town Clerk Suzi Fults [...

?Lawyering and the Craft of Judicial Opinion Writing: The Second Conversation with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the Law of the Constitution.?

Posted on August 01, 2008
How Appealing links to video of this Pepperdine Law School event featuring several well known legal figures. Visit Site » Share This

Zogby Poll: 3 Senate Seats Now Held By GOP At Big Risk Of Being Taken By Dems

Posted on August 01, 2008
Zogby reports: Democrats appear closer to taking complete control of the United States Senate, as three seats now held by Republicans are in jeopardy, a new analysis of polling data by Zogby International shows. The Zogby Interactive analysis of five key Senate races finds New Mexico, Virginia and Oregon trending to Democrats...

Bush rewards Democrats with Virginia judgeship

Posted on August 01, 2008
Quin Hillyer reports on the Examiner: “But, at a time when Senate Democrats are blocking numerous Bush judicial nominees with no signs of reasonable compromise, Virginia conservatives wonder why Bush would nominate somebody whose politics, and presumably judicial philosophy as well, seem to lean so leftward...

Georgia: Human trafficking in Macon? Depends on whom you ask

Posted on August 01, 2008
The Macon Telegraph reports: “Once she reached Atlanta, however, she found herself working in a massage parlor with false travel documents. She was forced to prostitute herself to a quota of 20 men to repay traffickers about $80,000 in exaggerated travel expenses, room and board, according to an Atlanta social service agency...

Indiana: Avon may require sex shop permits

Posted on August 01, 2008
The Avon Star reports: “Avon is considering a measure that would require adult businesses to obtain a permit from the town. The town has zoning restrictions on where adult businesses can locate, but Town Manager Tom Klein said requiring a permit would give the town greater legal authority should a business step out of bounds...

Pelosi Backs Obama on Repeal of Defense of Marriage Act

Posted on August 01, 2008
CNSNews.com reports: If Barack Obama is elected president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will support him in fulfilling his vow to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which currently protects states from having to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states as they ordinarily would be required to do by the Full Faith and [...

Muslim protesters force Christian students out of Indonesian Bible school

Posted on August 01, 2008
Christian Today reports: “A local mosque loudspeaker called on Muslims to drive ‘drive out the unwanted neighbour’, as hundreds of protesters wielding machetes, sharpened bamboo and acid, attacked the school.” Visit Site » Share This

Utah WordPerfect co-founder gives 7 figure donation to fight California marriage amendment

Posted on August 01, 2008
ABC4.com reports: “One of the wealthiest Utahns is aligning himself with California gays and against the LDS Church. Bruce Bastian, the co-founder of WordPerfect, now says he’s giving a seven figure donation to help protect gay marriage in California...

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