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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Soledad Cross Stays ? Court Finds No Constitutional Violation

Posted on July 30, 2008
"The court found that Congress' primary purpose in acquiring the memorial was to preserve the site as a veterans' memorial, not to advance or favor a particular religion."

Court Rejects Free Exercise Exemption From Law Numbered ?666?

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports on a Tennessee ruling that rejected a Father’s free exercise challenge to paying child support through a designated state agency on grounds that the authorizing law was codied at 42 U.S.C. § 666. Apparently, the Father was willing to pay child support, but not vis-a-vis the procedures set forth in [...

Chabad Wins On Challenge To Florida City?s Zoning Rules

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Chabad of Nova, Inc. v. City of Cooper City, (SD FL, July 29, 2008), a Florida federal district court ruled in favor of an Orthodox Jewish Chabad group on most of its challenges to a Cooper City (FL)’s zoning restrictions imposed on houses of worship...

?Conflicting Gay Marriage Laws Cause Headaches for Companies?

Posted on July 30, 2008
Sherry Karabin has this report in Corporate Counsel. She writes: The start of same-sex marriages in California on June 16 made headlines across the country. But it wasn’t such a big deal for many U.S. companies. That’s because these businesses already give their gay and lesbian employees many of the same benefits that they provide to [...

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Muslim faith schools cause segregation, say teachers

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Daily Mail reports: ‘Hell will freeze over’ before Muslim schools give children a liberal education, teachers were told today. Faith schools threaten to cause religious segregation and must not be expanded, said Wesley Paxton from teachers’ union Voice...

?Sizing Up the 2007-08 Supreme Court Term?

Posted on July 30, 2008
How Appealing links to the transcript and audio of the Legal Times annual Supreme Court review. Visit Site » Share This

ADF: 4th Circuit correct to rehear Virginia partial birth abortion case

Posted on July 29, 2008
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4627 ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE July 29, 2008 ? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom ADF: 4th Circuit correct to rehear Va. abortion ban lawsuit ADF provided funding for friend-of-the-court briefs in the case RICHMOND, Va...

Filipino President Says She?s With the Church against Contraception and For Life

Posted on July 29, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “During yesterday’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo reaffirmed her support for natural family planning over artificial methods such as condoms and pills, and declared her endorsement of the Catholic Church’s position on reproductive health issues...

Czech Republic Parliament Will Debate Measure to Legalize Assisted Suicide

Posted on July 29, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: The parliament of the Czech Republic is set to debate a measure that could have the eastern European nation follow its western counterparts in legalizing assisted suicide. [...]

United Kingdom: ?Gay sex is a sin, say four in five Protestants?

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Times Online reports: “A survey by ComRes of 517 Protestant Christians in Britain found that only 3 per cent of nonCatholic Christians believe homosexuality is not a sin, while 81 per cent say it is and 15 per cent say ‘it is more complicated than this’...

Compel sex lessons at 11, says Government report

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Christian Institute reports: “Eleven-year-old school children should be forced to undergo sex education regardless of their parents? wishes, a Government-funded report says.” Visit Site » Share This

AUL Files Brief in Missouri Choose Life License Plate Case

Posted on July 29, 2008
Matthew Epinnette reports on the Americans United for Life Blog: Americans United for Life (AUL) has filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of nine Missouri not-for-profit pregnancy resource centers in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in the case Kevin M...

European Commission to Open Dialogue with Germany on Homeschooling Law

Posted on July 29, 2008
HSLDA reports: “On July 17, the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament (an advisory body to the European Commission comprised of 728 popularly elected members) heard the first complaint ever against Germany regarding its treatment of homeschoolers...

Mass. House votes to sanction nonresident same-sex ?marriages?

Posted on July 29, 2008
The 118-35 vote came after the state Senate voted for the repeal earlier this month, and Gov. Deval Patrick has said he will sign the bill . . .

Georgia: ?City puts moratorium on adult entertainment licenses?

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Calhoun Times reports: The Calhoun City Council voted to put a moratorium on business licenses for adult entertainment establishments in order to review and update the current ordinances. The ban is scheduled to last for 120 days while city officials and the city attorney review the 1993 ordinance...

Pole Dancing Fad: Stripping culture insinuated into every corner of popular culture

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Arizona Republic reports: With Cardio Striptease taught by former exotic dancers at yoga studios, and strippers name-checked in Top 40 hits, and Nike making a workout top that looks like a fancy bra, it seems stripping culture has insinuated itself into every corner of popular culture...

Judicial Malfunction

Posted on July 29, 2008
Chuck Colson has this article on the Christian Post. He writes: The nudity angered many viewers, and gave the world a cynical new term: ?wardrobe malfunction.? Jackson?s wardrobe is not the only thing that malfunctioned; so did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ...

IRD Questions California Marriage Ruling Impact on Clergy

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Institute on Religion and Democracy reports on the Christian Newswire: “Dangerously, this new state legalization places mainstream followers of all those religions in the legal position of being regarded as bigots who are in opposition to state policy on a matter of fundamental human rights...

High School Refuses to Recognize Bible Study Club: PJI Files Suit

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Pacific Justice Institute has issued this press release. It reports: “Pacific Justice Institute filed suit today in federal court in Southern California on behalf of students who have been thwarted in their attempts to start an after-school Bible Study Club at Esperanza High School in Anaheim...

California: PG & E gives $250,000 to defeat Proposition 8

Posted on July 29, 2008
This time, in addition to PG&E, other large corporations such as AT&T and Wells Fargo also have donated to defeat Proposition 8.

California: Out-of-state money floods to Prop. 8

Posted on July 29, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle has this report that mentions some of the big contributions flowing into California’s marriage battle. The report begins: “When Bruce Bastian of Utah stood up Saturday night at a San Francisco dinner and wrote a $1 million check for the campaign against Proposition 8, he made it clearer than ever that [...

As California Goes, So Goes the Nation

Posted on July 29, 2008
. . . Conservatives who argue that the legal requirements for marriage ought to be a matter for state determination are foolhardy . . . As Lincoln said . . . ?this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. It will become all one thing, or all the other...

Kansas: Cherokee County awakens to sex shops threat

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Joplin Globe reports: “The Cherokee County Commission has no options for the adult-video store that has opened at Crestline, but County Counselor Kevin Cure is working on an option to restrict future adult businesses in the county.” Visit Site » Share This

NYU Students Seek Coveted Law School Classes, Will Pay Cash

Posted on July 29, 2008
The ABA Journal reports: “At least one administrator at New York University School of Law recently has put his foot down about the practice, threatening sanctions. But students reportedly are shamelessly buying and selling seats in coveted law school courses via the Internet ...

Census reports more unmarried couples living together

Posted on July 29, 2008
Sharon Jayson reports on USA Today: “Cohabiting couples now make up almost 10% of all opposite-sex U.S. couples, married and unmarried . . . “ Visit Site » Share This

Kozinski, Facing Disciplinary Inquiry, to Keep Low Profile at Conference

Posted on July 29, 2008
Pamela A. MacLean reports on the National Law Journal: Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, facing a discipline inquiry over discovery he had sexually explicit photographs on a personal Web site, has scrubbed his public appearances for the circuit conference this week in Sun Valley, Idaho ...

Philippines: Is each newborn child an asset or liability?

Posted on July 29, 2008
We are worried over a galloping population growth . . . But it is also true that every child that is born has as well a pair of hands with the potential to create wealth. In that sense, a newborn child is a potential asset rather than a liability.

Terrorism: Al-Qaeda video urges Saudi monarch?s killing for dialogue with Pope

Posted on July 29, 2008
ADNKronos.com reports: Al-Qaeda Number 3, Abu Yahya al-Libi has issued a new video urging the killing of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah for his moves towards inter-faith dialogue with Pope Benedict XVI. “They want to spawn a new religion on the Arabian Peninsula and that is bringing religions closer together,” al-Libi warns in the video message posted to [...

Archbishop of Canterbury to create group to punish rule-breaking Anglican churches

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Telegraph reports: The Pastoral Forum to be headed by Dr Rowan Williams is a last-ditch attempt to bring rebel Anglican provinces into line and prevent a total split in the 80 million-strong Communion . . . But Bishop Handford denied this step of churches retreating on border-crossing would also mean that Bishop Robinson must step down [...

Reflections on Free Exercise: Revisiting ?Rourke v. Department of Correctional Services?

Posted on July 29, 2008
This contribution to a symposium on religious liberty looks closely at a New York case that illustrates both the inadequacy of federal free exercise law and the importance of state constitutional law.

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