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Teacher?s union goes to court to stop voucher amendments

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Palm Beach Post reports: Florida’s top teachers union filed a lawsuit Friday to block from the November ballot two constitutional amendments aimed at restoring school voucher programs. The lawsuit, filed by the Florida Education Association and others in Leon County Circuit Court, claims the proposed changes are outside the scope of issues a state tax [...

French man began breathing as docs prepared to harvest his organs

Posted on June 13, 2008
Reuters reports: The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 1-1/2 hours only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead . . . Due to a series of complex circumstances, revival efforts continued for longer [...

West Virginia Abortions Rise as Local Centers Expand Business, Offer Drugs

Posted on June 13, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: The number of abortions in West Virginia is up again after falling previously with the implementation of a new Right to Know law. The increased comes as two abortion centers expand the number of abortions they do and now offer women the deadly abortion drug mifepristone...

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland Vetos Ban on Taxpayer Funding of Human Cloning

Posted on June 13, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: he Ohio legislature sent Gov. Ted Strickland a biotech bill that doesn’t contain a ban on human cloning the way pro-life advocates wanted. The measure has only a more modest ban on forcing taxpayers to fund human cloning but Strickland won’t allow that protection for state residents...

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?Poll: New Yorkers support Patterson?s directive to recognize same-sex marriages?

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Poughkeepsie Journal reports: . . . Voters support 53 percent to 40 percent Paterson?s order last month to state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside New York, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. But voters also said 55 percent to 30 percent that the issue should have been decided by the state Legislature, not [...

Ovulation moment caught on camera

Posted on June 13, 2008
The BBC provides photos and reports: “A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a routine operation.” Visit Site » Share This

The Decline of Common Law Constitutionalism in Canada

Posted on June 13, 2008
Rather, [Canadian courts] act as all-purpose social engineers, often declaring unconstitutional, for all times and purposes, legislation duly passed by Parliament or the provincial legislatures?and occasionally, in effect, re-writing that legislation.

UK: Even middle-class children are suffering from neglect

Posted on June 13, 2008
Rachel Johnson has this commentary in the Spectator that begins: And when did you last see your children? Before you both left at the crack for the office? When they were already in bed? Or do you only see them ? let?s be brutally realistic here, given our divorce rate ? at alternate weekends? So [...

Wall Street Journal: President Kennedy

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has posted this editorial that begins: “Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy isn’t known for his judicial modesty. But for sheer willfulness, yesterday’s 5-4 majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush may earn him a historic place among the likes of Harry Blackmun...

?Jewish General To Pilot Evangelical-Friendly Air Force?

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Forward, Jewish Daily reports: But Schwartz, one of only a few Jews in the top ranks of the military, will also have to face off with the difficult questions of religion at his alma mater. During the past decade, the Air Force Academy has developed a reputation for being a hotbed of evangelical Christian [...

Scott Nelson: Separate religion, science by taking atheistic evolution out

Posted on June 13, 2008
Scott Nelson has this article in the Ann Arbor News. He concludes: Perhaps America is losing its hold on science leadership because its definition of science is messed up. America can maintain and excel in its leadership in civil liberties and technological innovation by crystallizing its definitions of science, religion and the separation of [...

How the Irish Saved Civilization, Again: Referendum defeats Lisbon Treaty

Posted on June 13, 2008
David Kopel comments on The Volokh Conspiracy. She writes: Treaty proponents lamented that Ireland, with only 1% of the EU population, could derail a 27-nation treaty. But the very fact that only 1% of the EU’s population was allowed to vote on a treaty which would massively reduce national sovereignty and democratic accountability was itself an [...

Amish Sentenced To Jail Over Waste Disposal Violations

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports that two Amish farmers in Pennsylvania who have refused to comply with state waste disposal codes have been sentenced to 90 days in jail after refusing to pay fines for the violations. Visit Site » Share This

Cub Scout In Scotland Objects To Oath To Queen Because of Anti-Catholic Rules

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In Scotland, the mother of an 8-year old is threatening to go to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge the requirement by the Cub Scouts that her son recite a promise that includes doing his duty to the Queen...

Ontario Parliament Keeps Lord?s Prayer, But Adds Others As Well

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: Under the alternative arrangement “approved unanimously, the Lord’s Prayer will stay, but it will be followed by a second prayer. The additional prayer will rotate among religious traditions. It will include Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Sikh, Jewish and Baha’i prayers, as well as a moment of silence, a Native spiritual passage [...

Epidemic of Fatherlessness

Posted on June 13, 2008
For millions of children across the U.S., this Sunday will not be a cause for celebration. Because of dramatic increases in divorce and nonmarital childbearing, about 28% of our nation's children -- more than 20 million kids -- now live in a household without their father, up from 10 million kids (14%) in 1970, according to a recent Census Bureau report.

?Transgender rights laws spread, not always calmly?

Posted on June 13, 2008
"In the past 15 years, 13 states and more than 90 cities and counties - home to roughly 40 percent of the U.S. population - have passed measures banning various types of discrimination against transgender people . . . "

U.S. Senate committee OKs 3 Michigan judicial nominees

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Grand Rapids Press reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared three Michigan judicial nominees on Thursday, advancing a Clinton era appointment whose nomination stalled for years during the late 1990s. The committee approved the nomination of Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Helene White on an 11-8 vote, with one Republican joining the majority Democrats, for a seat [...

Pew Scholarship competition for law students: Deadline is June 15th

Posted on June 13, 2008
This is a reminder to all students who plan to participate in the William Pew Religious Freedom Scholarship competition. The deadline for submissions is June 15th. More information is available here. Share This

Tracking the Storm: The Far-Reaching Power of the Forces Propelling the Schiavo Cases

Posted on June 13, 2008
Kathy L. Cerminara, Tracking the Storm: The Far-Reaching Power of the Forces Propelling the Schiavo Cases (2005). Stetson Law Review, Vol. 35, 2005 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1144228 More than 15 years elapsed between the date Theresa Marie Schiavo suffered a cardiac arrest, leaving her in a persistent vegetative state because of brain damage, and the date [...

Michigan Legislature Must Correct Governor?s Failure Says National Priest Leader

Posted on June 12, 2008
The Christian Newswire reports: “With the announcement today that Gov. Jennifer Granholm will veto Michigan?s partial-birth abortion ban bill, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, has called upon the state legislature to override the Governor’s action ...

MA: Launching Yet Another Attack on Freedom of Conscience?

Posted on June 12, 2008
Denise Burke has this post on the Americans United for Life Blog. She writes: The Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association (AMA) is asking its membership to adopt a policy that supports eviscerating the freedom of conscience of pharmacists...

U.S. Supreme Court creates Habeas rights for Islamic terrorists and thousands of lawsuits in 5-4 ruling

Posted on June 12, 2008
SCOTUS Blog offers analysis and links to numerous media reports and commentaries.� The opinion is Boumediene v. Bush, No. 06-1195 (U.S. June 12, 2008).� Ironically, in addition to the legal mess it creates, the ruling is likely to lead to less humanitarian treatment for future terrorist captives...

Calif. Episcopal Bishop Drives ?Marriage? Redefinition Momentum to Church

Posted on June 12, 2008
Lillian Kwon reports on the Christian Post: The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus released a pastoral letter on Monday urging clergy to encourage all couples, including homosexual ones, to first be married in a secular service and then seek the blessing of The Episcopal Church as the California diocese works for the “full inclusion” of LGBT [...

Kansas Supreme Court Holds Hearing on Pro-Abortion Lawsuit Against Kline

Posted on June 12, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “The Kansas Supreme Court held oral arguments on Thursday in a lawsuit a Planned Parenthood abortion business filed against a local district attorney for holding it accountable [...]

Baldwin ?optimistic? that ENDA and hate crimes legislation will pass next session

Posted on June 12, 2008
GayPolitics.com has this post indicating that “openly lesbian U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin” is very optimistic that bills related to employment non-discrimination and hate crime bills would pass, “especially if Barack Obama wins the presidency in November...

English court to hear case on assisted suicide

Posted on June 12, 2008
CWNews reports: “London’s High Court has agreed to hear the plea of an English woman challenging the country’s laws against assisted suicide.” Google News contains numerous reports on the situation. Visit Site » Share This

Southern Baptist Convention tackles Calif. marriage ruling and government funding of Planned Parenthood

Posted on June 12, 2008
"Messengers to the 2008 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting passed resolutions in the June 11 evening session supporting a California initiative to repudiate same-sex 'marriage' and urging government defunding of Planned Parenthood, the country's leading abortion provider...

?Louisiana Will Face Lawsuit If New Law Brings Religion Into Public School Science Classes, Says Americans United?

Posted on June 12, 2008
Approved by a 94-3 vote, the so-called ?Science Education Act? (SB 733) allows public school teachers to use ?supplemental materials? when discussing evolution . . .

Yakima proposes new zoning for adult shops

Posted on June 12, 2008
The Seattle Times reports: “Owners of some adult sex shops in Yakima say a city zoning proposal would push them out of town. Planners are proposing that adult shops be at least 500 feet away from homes, schools, parks or churches . . .” Visit Site » Share This

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