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Mercury News: ?Gays who wed in California won?t have equal marriage rights?

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Mercury News reports: Thousands of gay couples will marry in California during the upcoming months, but when it comes to the law, not all marriages are created equal. Same-sex married couples can expect many of the same marital rights as heterosexual couples under state law...

Massachusetts: Maternity Leave Means Fathers Too

Posted on June 11, 2008
Concurring Opinions reports: A Commissioner at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (the Commission) has announced that effective immediately the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act (MMLA) will apply to new parents of either sex. This means that both mothers and fathers (or both parents in gay marriages) in Massachusetts will be entitled under state law to eight weeks [...

More view cohabitation as alternative to marriage

Posted on June 11, 2008
UPI reports on an International study indicating that more people in the United States and other countries view cohabitation as an alternative to marriage. In the U.S. the figure is reportedly at about 10% while the marriage rate fell by 20% between 1995 and 2005...

Norway: Parliament approves marriage redefinition

Posted on June 11, 2008
Norway's parliament on Wednesday adopted a new marriage law that allows homosexuals to marry and adopt children and permits lesbians to be artificially inseminated.

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Johnny Hunt selected to head Southern Baptists

Posted on June 11, 2008
Baptist Press reports: Johnny Hunt, a pastor from Woodstock, Ga, was elected June 10 as president of the 16.4 million member Southern Baptist Convention in the 151st session of its two-day annual meeting. Hunt, from the nearly 17,000-member First Baptist Church in Woodstock, was elected president when he received 52...

Take Three: Appellate Court Hears Challenge to Internet Censorship . . . Again

Posted on June 11, 2008
The ACLU Blog reports: “A sense of d�j� vu pervaded the courtroom in Philadelphia yesterday as the ACLU presented its challenge to the Child Online Protection Act . . . again. This is not the first or the second, but the third time the ACLU has been before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals [...

IRS Should Investigate Minnesota Church For Electioneering, Says Americans United

Posted on June 11, 2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has issued this press release. It begins: Americans United for Separation of Church and State today urged the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a Minnesota church whose pastor insisted that Christians cannot vote for presidential candidates Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton...

Did your Member of Congress co-sponsor the Freedom of Choice Act?

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Americans United for Life Blog reports on the Freedom of Choice Act and provides a listing of its Congressional sponsors. Visit Site » Share This

Louisiana: Judge to side with ACLU in school prayer case

Posted on June 11, 2008
The AP reports: A federal judge says he is prepared to side with the American Civil Liberties Union in its lawsuit over a teacher’s prayer during a public high school’s graduation ceremony. During a meeting Tuesday with lawyers in the case, U...

Poland in an Uproar after Coercive Abortion Pressure Put on 14-Year-Old by Planned Parenthood

Posted on June 11, 2008
John-Henry Westen reports on LifeSiteNews.com: . . . While permission was being secured by Planned Parenthood, the girl complained to a teacher that she did not want to abort her child.� Hospitals in her home town refused to kill her unborn child, saying that the girl seemed to be pressured into�the abortion�by her mother and abortion [...

Human Rights Harassment against Catholic Magazine Costs $20,000, So Far

Posted on June 11, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: “A monthly Canadian Catholic magazine of news, analysis and opinion has been burdened by $20,000 in legal costs so far to defend itself against a campaign of harassment - including a human rights complaint - launched by homosexual activists...

Georgia Woman Acting as Girl?s Mom in Secret Abortion Case Gets Prison

Posted on June 11, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A Georgia woman who lied to abortion center officials and signed parental notification papers claiming to be the mother of a teenager is heading to prison. Cindi [...]

The qualitative and quantitive framework of marriage

Posted on June 11, 2008
Prof. Michael Scaperlanda: "Marriage ? as a public institution ? is in deep trouble. . . Traditionally marriage has had one quantitative and three qualitative elements: two people; man and woman; monogamous; and permanent."

New Study on Abortion-Breast Cancer Link Criticized for Data, Method Flaws

Posted on June 11, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: A leading breast cancer researcher and a woman’s advocate are both criticizing a new study on the link between abortion and breast cancer. They say the study, published [...]

9th Circuit?s chief judge posted sexually explicit matter on his website

Posted on June 11, 2008
One of the highest-ranking federal judges in the United States, who is currently presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles, has maintained a publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.

Anti-Christian Group Files Suit over Free Use of School Facilities for Christian Party Club

Posted on June 11, 2008
Liberty Counsel has issued this press release that begins: The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) filed a lawsuit against Elizabeth Burmaster, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Mark McGuire, District Administrator of the Rio Community School District, for providing a Christian ministry equal access to meet in school facilities free of charge...

An outsider?s look at the Evangelical Youth Movement

Posted on June 11, 2008
Again, we see that she can only account for the appeal of Evangelicalism by means of social analysis. If only she had seen that the Disciple Generation wasn?t primarily a response to the social woes of contemporary society.

Colorado led the nation with a 73 percent increase in the number of children living in poverty over six years, according to a new report.

Posted on June 11, 2008
The AP reports: Colorado led the nation with a 73 percent increase in the number of children living in poverty over six years, according to a new report. Megan Ferland, president of the Colorado Children’s Campaign, said the number of children under 18 in poverty soared from 104,000 to 180,000 between 2000 and 2006...

Michigan Township Will Vote On Tax To Buy Property Surrounding Cross

Posted on June 11, 2008
Religion Clause Blog reports: . . . Voters in Cross Village Township will also be casting their ballots on an unusual tax measure. The Harbor Springs (MI) Harbor Light reported two weeks ago on the proposed .25 mill levy to permit the township to purchase the property after which the township is named ...

Time for Rights? Loving, Gay Marriage, and the Limits of Legal Justice

Posted on June 11, 2008
It is important to note here that the desire to remember Loving at this historical moment in the interest of furthering the gay marriage movement is ultimately circumscribed by that interest.

Scientific Speech: Existing First Amendment categories are inadequate

Posted on June 11, 2008
This constitutional mistreatment of scientific speech--a considerable fraction of all speech content--suggests that structural infirmities may exist within the First Amendment's purportedly stable core.

Islamic fanatics using the internet to recruit children in Britain, says Civitas

Posted on June 11, 2008
ThisisLondon reports: . . . Extremists are no longer delivering hate-filled sermons and distributing propaganda on street corners, but instead use pro-jihadist websites. Some of these carry calls for the flag of Islam to ‘fly over Downing Street’, and urge militants to attack Jews and Christians...

Putting Children Last - Democrats want to eliminate DC school vouchers

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports: Democrats in Congress have finally found a federal program they want to eliminate. And wouldn’t you know, it’s one that actually works and helps thousands of poor children. We’re speaking of the four-year-old Washington, D...

Because We Say So: The Unfortunate Denial of Rights to Transgender Minors Regarding Transition

Posted on June 11, 2008
In the United States, we routinely endanger the health and well-being of transgender youth by denying them a voice in determining the paths their transitions take. This Note explores the barriers that transgender youth face when trying to take steps to transition.

The Blurring of the Lines: Children and Bans on Interracial Unions and Same-Sex Marriages

Posted on June 11, 2008
The conservative critique of same-sex marriage is premised on the idea that men and women are different in essential and complementary ways and that these differences justify the denial of marriage to same-sex couples.

The Cross at College: Accommodation and Acknowledgment of Religion at Public Universities

Posted on June 11, 2008
The controversy over the Wren Chapel cross provides an especially useful prism for exploring three facets of contemporary Establishment Clause law, all of which figured prominently in the arguments about removal of the cross.

Three?s Company? How American Law Can Recognize a Third Social Parent in Same-Sex Headed Families

Posted on June 11, 2008
This Article proposes a theoretical framework for granting legal recognition to three parents in the context of families headed by same-sex couples.

Quoting Scripture banned in library community room

Posted on June 11, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: Quoting from the Bible has been banned in a community room at the public library in Clermont County, Ohio, and now a couple who sought to use the facility for a financial planning seminar has brought a court case. “What’s next? Will the library board attempt to keep patrons from checking out Bibles and reading [...

Toward a RFRA That Works

Posted on June 11, 2008
Hence, religious interest groups would be wise to steer RFRA's interpretation in both the federal arena and in the states' mini-RFRAs, toward the refined, reasonable, and nuanced approach of Sherbert and its progeny.

Confronting Misinformation on Abortion: Informed Consent, Deference, and Fetal Pain Laws

Posted on June 11, 2008
Confronting Misinformation on Abortion: Informed Consent, Deference, and Fetal Pain Laws Harper Jean Tobin, 17 Colum. J. Gender & L. 111 (2008) This Article argues that, to the extent these laws go beyond flagging topics that should be discussed by health care providers and prescribe specific factual claims that must be conveyed to patients, they should be [...

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