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?New EU report says tougher laws needed to fight homophobia?

Posted on July 01, 2008
Tougher laws are needed to combat homophobia in the European Union, a new report says, urging leaders across the 27-nation bloc to grant same-sex partnerships the same rights and advantages as married couples.

Killing of baby girls triggers social upheaval in India

Posted on July 01, 2008
The Toronto Star reports: “Over 27 per cent of India’s 593 districts have an adult population ratio of under 900 females for every, 1,000 males, indicating a long-standing practice of female infanticide and feticide.” Visit Site » Share This

Report: California?s Death Penalty System Is ?Close to Collapse,? Costs $100 Million Annually

Posted on July 01, 2008
The AP reports: “The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, appointed by the state Legislature to propose criminal justice reforms, issued a 117-page report detailing a deeply flawed system with the biggest backlog of cases in the nation ...

The Slippery Slope is real

Posted on July 01, 2008
Justin Hart has this commentary on Townhall. He writes: Today, conservatives are ritually accused of inciting a similar panic on issues from abortion to pornography; from immigration to States? rights; and most recently with gay marriage. Skeptics casually cover us over with Mr...

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Now You Tell Us: cohabiting teenagers using the Pill have a failure rate of almost 50%

Posted on July 01, 2008
Jennifer Roback Morse has this commentary on Townhall. She writes: The advocates of contraception have finally admitted in public what some of us have known for a while: The Pill doesn’t work very well . . . It turns out that poor, cohabiting teenagers using the Pill have a failure rate of almost 50%: 48...

Dutch will not prosecute politician for Anti-Muslim statements

Posted on July 01, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “The Dutch Public Prosecution Service issued a statement yesterday (full text) saying that right-wing politician Geert Wilders will not be prosecuted for a letter he wrote to a national newspaper urging that the Quran be banned in the Netherlands ...

Obama to support Faith-Based Initiative with restrictions

Posted on July 01, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog links to several reports and the full text of Obama’s remarks. Obama is quoted as say he would adopt these restrictions: First, if you get a federal grant, you can?t use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help and you can?t discriminate against them ? or against the [...

?NY Gay Couple Files Discrimination Case Against Online Adoption Service?

Posted on July 01, 2008
365Gay.com reports: “A discrimination complaint was filed Tuesday with the New York Attorney General on behalf of a same-sex couple barred from posting their profile at an online adoptive service because the two men are gay. The complaint names Arizona-based Adoption Profiles, LLC and Adoption Media LLC ...

ADF attorneys file response to attack on Calif. marriage amendment

Posted on July 01, 2008
?Equality California and its allies are desperate to evade the democratic process. First, they used the courts to erase the votes of nearly 5 million Californians who voted to protect marriage. Now, they are trying to silence the people?s voice forever,? said ADF Senior Counsel Glen Lavy.

?New meaning for San Francisco gay pride parade?

Posted on July 01, 2008
The AP reports: “Given San Francisco’s sizable role in initiating the lawsuits that led California’s highest court to strike down the state’s bans on same-sex marriage, the city’s 38th annual gay pride festival and parade is likely to draw huge crowds this weekend, tourism officials say...

Abortion Providers in South Dakota Are Required to Admit Abortion is Ending a Life

Posted on July 01, 2008
Liberty Counsel has issued this press release that begins: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in a 7-4 decision, will allow South Dakota to begin enforcing a state law that requires abortion providers to tell women, in writing, that the abortion procedure “will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living [...

Some churches want out of ?legal marriage business? so they can can focus on ?spiritual blessings? not the ?political stuff?

Posted on July 01, 2008
"The idea of a secular marriage followed by a religious ceremony is something church leaders of various faiths have been discussing since the ruling on gay marriage . . . "

41% in GOP say marriage important to their vote, up from 39% in 2004

Posted on July 01, 2008
MSNBC reports: Conservative activist Gary Bauer claims the decision by CA to legalize gay marriage could help the GOP. “The Pew poll found that 41 percent of Republicans say same-sex marriage will be ?very important? to their vote this year, which is remarkable considering that 39 percent felt as strongly in 2004...

Virginia: No charges, because ?bride? and ?groom? not clearly defined

Posted on July 01, 2008
Authorities said that since "bride" and "groom" were not clearly defined on the marriage license application, they might not be able to prove intent to commit fraud.

Alan Sears: Sirens? lure of foreign law

Posted on July 01, 2008
ADF President Alan Sears has this commentary in the Washington Times.� He writes: . . . In the courtrooms of America these days, that song is the call to invoke international judicial precedents in deciding the legal course of our country. Increasingly, state and federal courts hand down crucial decisions that lean heavily on the fundamentally [...

Suit challenges Ohio obscenity law: Hustler manager says sex offender registration unconstitutional

Posted on July 01, 2008
The Cincinnati Inquirer reports: “A Northern Kentucky mother of two is suing Ohio’s attorney general, seeking to overturn part of a new Ohio requiring those convicted of selling obscene material to register as sex offenders.” Visit Site » Share This

NY Times: No Babies? Declining Population in Europe

Posted on June 30, 2008
The NY Times Magazine has published this lengthy article discussing the population decline in Europe. Here is an excerpt: . . . The figure of 2.1 is widely considered to be the ?replacement rate? ? the average number of births per woman that will maintain a country?s current population level...

Pro-Homosexual Researchers Conceal Findings Relevant to Same-Sex Marriage Debate: Openly Homosexual Parents Influence Sexuality of Children

Posted on June 30, 2008
The Christian Newswire has this report.� It indicates: “Children raised by openly homosexual parents are more likely to engage in homosexual behavior themselves. And some self-described pro-homosexual researchers who uncovered such results attempted to conceal them by declaring that no differences were found...

KS Supremes: Upholds state owned casinos law

Posted on June 30, 2008
The Kansas City Star reports: “Kansas’ new law authorizing state-owned casinos and slot parlors is constitutional, the state Supreme Court said this morning.” The opinion in State ex rel. Stephen Six v. Kansas Lottery and Ed Van Petten, Case No...

Barry Lynn: Rule keeps politicking out of pulpits

Posted on June 30, 2008
Barry Lynn has this commentary in the Lexington Herald-Leader.� He writes: As a member of the clergy, I am appalled that any organization would encourage religious groups to blatantly break the law for its own ends. But beyond that, the campaign shows a dangerous ignorance of tax law and why it says what it does...

India?s moderate Muslims fear growth of radical Islam

Posted on June 30, 2008
The Washington Post reports: . . . Sheikh’s concerns reflect the growing anxiety among Indian Muslims, a minority in this country of more than 1 billion people, following a series of bomb blasts carried out by radical Islamic groups over the past three years...

Media Silent on Far-Left Anti-Abstinence Alliance

Posted on June 30, 2008
Kristen Fyfe has this article on the Culture and Media Institute site.� She writes: “What the Associated Press fails to report is that Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are working together to persuade states across the country to reject federal grant monies for abstinence programs...

ADF offers to help U.S. Navy stand up against ACLU

Posted on June 30, 2008
ADF attorneys sent a letter to the U.S. Naval Academy Friday, offering free legal representation if the ACLU makes good on its threat to sue the academy for not abandoning its tradition of offering prayer before meals.

Jan LaRue: Celebrating the Second on the Fourth: Quotations from the Founders

Posted on June 30, 2008
Jan LaRue has this commentary on the Culture and Media Institute.� She writes: The Founders, who risked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to secure their liberty and ours, trusted peaceable people to be armed because they were one with us, not sovereign over us...

Oregon Supreme Court issues opinions on pro-family ballot titles

Posted on June 30, 2008
The Oregon Supreme Court has issued opinions on the ballot titles of Petition Initiatives 144 (repeals domestic partnerships) and 145 (removes sexual orientation from discrimination laws).

Sex OK at 9, says Saudi cleric

Posted on June 30, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: . . . Age, or lack thereof, is no hindrance to marriage under Islam, according to Ahmad Al-Mu’bi, an officiant for marriages from Saudi Arabia who says sex at 9 is fine. And he said the model for marriage continues to be Muhammad, who married one of his wives when she was but [...

Bobby Jindal Signs Law Allowing Intelligent Design in Louisiana Schools

Posted on June 30, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Louisiana public school teachers can now educate their students about the theory of intelligent design and scientific criticisms of Darwinian evolutionary theory thanks to a new law signed this week by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal...

Va. judge: church secession law is constitutional

Posted on June 30, 2008
The AP reports: “Eleven conservative Episcopal churches won a legal victory Friday when a circuit court judge upheld a Virginia law allowing congregations to vote to secede from their parent denominations . . .” Visit Site » Share This

?The Court?s Gay Rights Legacy?

Posted on June 30, 2008
Micheal E. Lindenberg has this report on TIME: Five years ago this week, the United State Supreme Court delivered its most sweeping gay rights decision ever, striking down laws in Texas and other states that had criminalized sex between gays. The court erected a shield of privacy around sexual behavior for all consenting adults, and [...

Key decisions of this term show a willingness of some justices to reject political leaders? judgments.

Posted on June 30, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor reports: . . . In cases dealing with the threats of international terrorism, urban gun violence, and child sexual predators, critics say the Supreme Court appears to be positioning itself more as a player than as an umpire...

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