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White House Hosts Conference On Faith-Based Initiative

Posted on June 27, 2008
The Religion Clause has this post that begins: “Yesterday and today the White House is hosting the ‘Innovations in Effective Compassion’ National Conference, a meeting of over 1000 people interested in the federal Faith Based and Community Initiatives...

9th Circuit Rules In Favor of Egyptian Coptics Seeking Asylum

Posted on June 27, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Morgan v. Mukasey, (9th Cir., June 25, 2008), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals that had denied asylum to an Egyptian Coptic Christian couple and their three children...

PA: AG announces new charges in internet child-predator case

Posted on June 26, 2008
Corbett said the new criminal charges filed today in Lawrence County allege that Maloni used Internet chat rooms to contact and sexually proposition an undercover agent from the New York State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

UK: Equality bill to ?instruct public bodies to promote gay equality?

Posted on June 26, 2008
The bill is intended to be an extension of the current duty on public authorities to actively promote equality into services like fostering, magistrates courts and health clinics, to make their services more accessible to lesbian, bisexual and gay people.

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Czech President Says Lisbon Treaty Is Dead

Posted on June 26, 2008
In an interview with Spanish daily El Pais, the eurosceptic Mr Klaus said: "The EU cannot ignore its own rules. The Lisbon Treaty has been roundly and democratically rejected by Ireland, and it therefore cannot come into force."

?A cramped view of religion?

Posted on June 26, 2008
Given ?the number of secular organizations offering social services to same-sex couples, allowing religious groups opposed to same-sex marriage to put that opposition into practice beyond the sanctuary is not likely to often seriously impede anyone.?

Church in Cuba questions government?s promotion of homosexuality on the island

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Archdiocese of Havana?s magazine, Palabra Nueva, has published an article questioning the Cuban government?s promotion of homosexuality through norms that allow the changing of one?s identity, sex-change operations and the eventual legalization of homosexual unions.

Study: Evangelicals Lesser Known than Homosexuals

Posted on June 26, 2008
More Americans are acquainted with a gay or lesbian person than an evangelical, according to a recent study.

House Holds Hearing On ?Transgender Discrimination?

Posted on June 26, 2008
For the first time a House subcommittee has heard firsthand of widespread discrimination against transgender men and women.

Jay Sekulow: Should Religious Leaders Be Able to Endorse Political Candidates?

Posted on June 26, 2008
Jay Sekulow offers these comments on the ACLJ site. He begins: “The IRS is stifling the free speech rights of religious leaders in a world where most Americans understand that the intersection of faith and politics is a well-recognized part of this nation?s culture and heritage...

Excerpts of the President?s Remarks to Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives? National Conference

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Whitehouse has posted excerpts on the Christian Newswire including these: . . . I am confident because this movement is bigger than politics or party.� Today, 35 governors ? 19 Democrats and 16 Republicans ? have established their own faith-based and community initiatives...

?Homosexuals march through Jerusalem streets?

Posted on June 26, 2008
The AP reports: “About 3,000�homosexuals have marched through Jerusalem in their annual Gay Pride parade. The march was followed by a rally, both proceeding without incident.” Visit Site » Share This

345 arrested, kids rescued in prostitution busts

Posted on June 26, 2008
The AP reports on OneNewsNow.com: “Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.” Visit Site » Share This

ACLU Applauds First-Ever Congressional Hearing on Gender Identity in the Workplace

Posted on June 26, 2008
The ACLU has issued this press release that begins: “The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Heath, Employment, Labor, and Pensions for holding the first-ever congressional hearing on transgender issues and gender identity discrimination in the workplace...

ACLU Says Louisiana Science Education Bill on Evolution and Other Issues Is Fine As Written

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Discovery Institute reports: “The director of the Louisiana ACLU has now conceded that the bill is actually fine as written . . . Of course, Ms. Esman goes on to fret that some people might misuse the bill, and in that case the ACLU might sue ...

ACLU sues Dept. of Energy on behalf of Muslim scientist

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Lebanon Daily News: “A Muslim nuclear physicist on Thursday accused the U.S. Department of Energy of revoking his security clearance in retaliation for his criticism of the government’s treatment of Muslims.” Visit Site » Share This

ECLJ Submits Legal Analysis to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on ?Defamation of Religions?

Posted on June 26, 2008
The ACLJ reports: “The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) submitted a legal analysis on the United Nations resolution ‘Combating Defamation of Religions’ in response to the invitation of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) ...

Black ministers demand political parties refuse racist Planned Parenthood donations

Posted on June 26, 2008
U.S. News and World Report reports: “Race and abortion politics will merge Thursday when a group of African-American pastors, led by the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., march on the Democratic and Republican Party headquarters to demand that candidates refuse donations from Planned Parenthood...

NY: Schoolgirl suspended for T-shirt

Posted on June 26, 2008
UPI reports: “A second-grader’s T-shirt bearing criticism of the ‘N-word’ has itself become the subject of criticism by suburban New York school officials.” Visit Site » Share This

NY High Court Finds No Fiduciary Breach In Rabbi?s Affair With Congregant

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Marmelstein v. Kehillat New Hempstead: The Rav Aron Jofen Community Synagogue, (NY Ct. App., June 25, 2008), New York’s high court rejected a breach of fiduciary duty claim asserted against a well known Orthodox rabbi by a woman with whom he had a 3 1/2 year sexual relationship ...

Ohio: Greenfield may change its prayer policy, prayer rally planned

Posted on June 26, 2008
CentralOhio.com reports: Changes in a prayer practice at Greenfield council meetings that has drawn the ire of the American Civil Liberties Union may be in the works . . . The case has garnered national attention. The national Alliance Defense Fund - a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations - indicated Wednesday, it sent [...

Leftist Group Challenges Religious Broadcast Interview With Army General

Posted on June 26, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports “the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is objecting to a portion of a program scheduled to be re-broadcast on July 4 and 5 on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.” The program features a Lt. General in the Army who appears in uniform, shares his faith, and is introduced as President of the [...

New Vancouver School Policy: Parents Refused Right to Pull Kids from Pro-Homosexual Lessons

Posted on June 26, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The Vancouver school board has announced that it intends to enforce the B.C. Ministry of Education’s policy that forbids parents from removing their children from the classroom during pro-homosexual discussions ...

Obama Flip-Flops on D.C. School Voucher Program - Now Intends to Squash it

Posted on June 26, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “A landmark education program that provides opportunity to hundreds of families in the nation’s capital to attend private schools is�being opposed by�Democrats in Congress. Barack Obama told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in February that he was open to voucher programs, but just last week announced his intentions to squash the DC pilot program ...

Canada: Student Group Demands Right to Opt-out of Paying Membership Fees to Anti-life Student Federation

Posted on June 26, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “The campus group at York University, Students for Bioethical Awareness (SBA), has launched a formal complaint under the York University Student Code of Conduct . . . The complaint also addresses the recent motion passed by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), which promises support for any member union that denies resources or [...

Is .Sex the New .Com? The Body That Oversees Internet Domains Approves New Extensions

Posted on June 26, 2008
ABC reports: “The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, an international nonprofit corporation overseen by the U.S. Department of Commerce, approved two measures at a meeting in Paris today that will allow virtually any word in any language to be used in a domain name...

Peter Singer?s legal rights for apes prevails in Socialist Spain - the assault on Judeo-Christian philosophy

Posted on June 26, 2008
"Spain is on the verge of fully passing the Great Ape Project. Conceived by Peter Singer . . . Singer's overarching goal is to obliterate Judeo/Christianity as the reigning philosophy of society. "

Senate Cmte Cuts Abstinence Education Funds 25 Percent, Bush May Veto

Posted on June 26, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A Senate appropriations subcommittee voted Tuesday to cut abstinence education funding by 25 percent, but President Bush may veto the bill that includes the change.’ Visit Site » Share [...

Professor Says Women Use Birth Control Pill Wrong, Resulting in Abortions

Posted on June 26, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A Princeton University says women are not using birth control pills correctly and the misuse is resulting in pregnancies and abortions that wouldn’t otherwise occur. Professor [...]

The Virginia Supreme Court Enforces Vermont?s Custody and Visitation Order Regarding a Same-Sex Couple?s Child: Why an Anti-Same-Sex-Marriage State Recognized a Same-Sex Union For This Purpose

Posted on June 26, 2008
Joanna Grossman has this commentary on Findlaw.� She writes: This case has been closely watched ? and rightfully so. Perhaps better than any other, it depicts the perils and pitfalls of a national legal landscape in which states have such stark disagreements over the regulation of same-sex families...

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