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Workers? Religious Freedom vs. Patients? Rights: Proposal Would Deny Federal Money if Employees Must Provide Care to Which They Object

Posted on July 31, 2008
Rob Stein reports on the Washington Post: “A Bush administration proposal aimed at protecting health-care workers who object to abortion, and to birth-control methods they consider tantamount to abortion, has escalated a bitter debate over the balance between religious freedom and patients’ rights...

Reports of adverse reactions to abortion: How should mental health professional groups respond?

Posted on July 30, 2008
Warren Throckmorton has this post on his blog. He writes: “Contrast the reaction of the APA to women who believe abortion has triggered harm with the APA reaction to clients who report harm as a result of participation in reparative therapy and/or ex-gay ministries...

Judge to Hear TMLC Challenge to New Jersey School District?s Total Ban on Religious Music

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Thomas More Law Center has issued this press release that begins: “Tomorrow, July 31st at 10:00AM EST, a New Jersey Federal Court will hear oral arguments in a legal challenge to a public school district?s policy totally banning Christmas music, including simple instrumentals without words, during year-end celebrations in its schools...

?ACLU Secures Religious Freedom For American Indians At Wyoming Prison?

Posted on July 30, 2008
The ACLU has issued this press release that begins: “Corrections officials at the Wyoming State Penitentiary (WSP) have agreed to allow American Indian prisoners access to eagle feathers for use in their traditional Indian religious practices...

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11th Circuit orders Univ. of Florida to recognize Christian fraternity

Posted on July 30, 2008
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ordered University of Florida officials Wednesday to stop discriminating against a Christian fraternity while a lawsuit filed by CLS and ADF on appeal.

Thai school offers transsexual toilet

Posted on July 30, 2008
The BBC reports: . . . Kampang is proud of its toilets. Spotless, and surrounded by flowering tropical plants, they have won national awards for cleanliness. But there is something else about them too. Between the girls’ toilet and the boys’, there is one signposted with a half-man, half-woman figure in blue and red...

UK: ?Introducing Guy-liner and Manscara - the new metrosexual make-up just for men?

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Daily Mail reports: In an increasingly metrosexual world, perhaps it was just a matter of time. But yesterday a high street store announced that it would start stocking makeup designed just for men. ‘Guy-liner’ and ‘Manscara’ to enhance the eyes of the male in your life, will appear in Superdrug this week ...

New Book: Abortion Under State Constitutions: A State by State Analysis

Posted on July 30, 2008
Carolina Academic Press will be publishing this forthcoming book by Paul Benjamin Linton titled: Abortion under State Constitutions: A State-by-State Analysis. Carolina introduces the book in part as follows: Abortion under State Constitutions is the first, full-length treatment of the subject to appear in print...

Missouri: Strip clubs are cited for liquor violations

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Columbia Tribune reports: Staff members at two Columbia strip clubs were issued summonses last week for alleged liquor law violations by allowing patrons to drink alcohol in the businesses. Plainclothes Columbia police and state liquor control officers issued the summonses Thursday night at Club Vogue, 912 Business Loop 70 E...

?The Media Fix Is In on Key Gay Issues?

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Culture and Media Institute addresses the barrage of biased media stories that preceded a Congressional hearing on the Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell policy and the appalling mistreatment by House members of a prominent witness . . .

Cardinal calls on Peruvian government to resist international pressure to approve abortion

Posted on July 30, 2008
CNA reports: During the Te Deum marking Peru?s Independence Day, the Archbishop of Lima, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, called on the government to resist international pressure to pass laws that would ?attack life and the family.? Visit Site » Share This

Poll Shows Distorted View of Cohabitation

Posted on July 30, 2008
Citizen Link reports: Glenn Stanton, director of family formation studies for Focus on the Family, said the numbers indicate pro-family organizations and scholars haven’t done a good job of educating Americans about the harmful effects of cohabitation on marriage...

India: state legislation would punish large families

Posted on July 30, 2008
CWNews.com reports: “A new population-control bill drafted by the Law Reforms Commission of India’s southern Kerala state has proposed several harsh measures to punish large families.” Visit Site » Share This

Islamic terrorists kill four Christians in Philippines

Posted on July 30, 2008
CWNews reports: “Four Filipino Christians were killed, and another is missing after an apparent attack by Islamic terrorists, the AsiaNews service reports.” Visit Site » Share This

IOC admits Internet censorship deal with China

Posted on July 30, 2008
Reuters reports: “Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted on Wednesday.” Visit Site » Share This

Massachusetts: ?Roll call vote on the repeal of gay marriage ban?

Posted on July 30, 2008
The AP reports the roll call vote in Massachusetts. The report begins: Here’s how members of the Massachusetts House voted Tuesday on repealing a 1913 law that blocked out-of-state gays from marrying in Massachusetts if their union would not be legally recognized in their home state...

Memories of Fallen Marines Bolster Federal Judge?s Ruling to Keep Mt. Soledad Cross Standing

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Thomas More Law Center has issued this press release that begins: “Federal District Court Judge Larry Alan Burns, ruled yesterday that the giant cross atop Mount Soledad, the center piece of a national veterans? memorial and subject of a 20 year legal battle, can stay as it is where it is...

Calif. amend. suit claims ?prejudicial? ballot

Posted on July 30, 2008
Michael Foust reports on Baptist Press: Supporters of a proposed constitutional marriage amendment in California filed suit against the state attorney general July 29, charging that a new ballot title and summary is inflammatory and could lead voters to oppose the measure ...

NYT Editorial Board: ?The Men Who Buy ? and Sell ? Sex?

Posted on July 30, 2008
Child prostitution has grown into a mammoth criminal operation involving tens of thousands of children, some of them as young as nine years old.

International and Religious Transnational Constitutionalism in the 21st Century

Posted on July 30, 2008
Taken together, substance and process elements of constitutional elaboration marked the boundaries between ?genuine constitutionalism? and the imposition of other forms of governance.

Pennsylvania: Looking to limit adult businesses

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Intelligencer reports: A controversial strip club in Milford has officials in nearby Quakertown considering limiting the location and scope of adult-entertainment within its borders. Although no strip clubs have been proposed for the borough, officials there are taking a preemptive strike after watching the flurry of debate and lawsuits that erupted over Coyotes Show Club [...

Poland: A pro-life nation

Posted on July 30, 2008
Antonio Gaspari's Zenit interview with the secretary of World Prayer for Life and vice president of the Polish Federation of Pro-Life Movements, Antoni Zieba

TN: Downtown Dolls Loses Courtroom Battle

Posted on July 30, 2008
A Downtown strip club owner has lost the opening round of a federal court fight with the city.

DC: State Board of Education Approves New Restrictive Homeschool Regulations

Posted on July 30, 2008
HSLDA reports: Among other things, the new regulations require annual notification of a parent?s intent to homeschool on a future form developed by OSSE (Office of the State Superintendent of Education), maintenance of a portfolio of schoolwork, and up to two annual portfolio reviews by the OSSE to determine whether a homeschool program, in OSSE?s [...

John Stossel: How Many Wives is Too Many?

Posted on July 30, 2008
John Stossel has this commentary on Townhall. Quoting a polygamist, he writes: “Someone like a Hugh Hefner will have a successful television show with three live-in girlfriends! And that’s all OK, and he’s making great money, and that’s all fine and great entertainment...

Uninformed Consent for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research No Surprise

Posted on July 30, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: There is a new brewing controversy about the NIH “approved” human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines (more a tempest in a teapot) . . . Now Josh Keller of the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that adequacy of the informed consent obtained for some of the approved lines is being challenged (subscription required) [...

Barack Obama?s Potential Running Mates All Pro-Abortion, Pro-Life Group Says

Posted on July 30, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “Several names have been bandied about in political circles as potential vice-presidential running mates for pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama. However, a leading [...]

More Internet providers agree to block child porn

Posted on July 30, 2008
The AP reports: “New York’s attorney general says several more Internet service providers have agreed to limit access to child pornography.” Visit Site » Share This

Will Maryland become legally androgynous?

Posted on July 30, 2008
OneNewsNow.com reports: Voters in Montgomery County, Maryland ? not members of the county board ? will have the final say in whether all references to gender should be removed from the county’s laws . . . Austin Nimocks, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, is not surprised that homosexual activists asked a judge to keep the public [...

UK: Council ban on atheist websites

Posted on July 30, 2008
The BBC reports: A city council has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism. Lawyers at the National Secular Society said the move by Birmingham City Council was “discriminatory” and they would consider legal action. Visit Site » Share This

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