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CDC: US teens having less sex, drugs

Posted on June 04, 2008
The AFP reports: US teens are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and smoking fewer cigarettes than those who grew up in the 1990s, a study released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found . . . About 48 percent of high school students were no longer virgins in 2007, down [...

Judicial Nominations Day Of Reckoning Comes To The Senate

Posted on June 04, 2008
Duane R. Patterson has this post on the Hugh Hewitt Blog. He writes: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell used the element of surprise today to follow through on a promise he’s made to fellow conservatives for quite some time. Either the Democrats were going to give President Bush’s judicial nominees, especially ones for [...

McCain & Obama: Where they stand on key social issues

Posted on June 04, 2008
Michael Foust has this Baptist Press report. It provides and discusses “a list of five issues important to social conservatives and where Obama and McCain stand.” The issues are: judges, abortion, marriage, the homosexual agenda, embryonic stem cells, and global warming...

Poll: U.S. split on if homosexuality is a sin

Posted on June 04, 2008
Baptist Press reports: . . . A telephone survey of 1,201 American adults conducted in April revealed that 48 percent of all Americans believe homosexual behavior is sinful, while 45 percent believe it is not sinful, almost a statistical tie when considering the margin of error ...

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Impeachment demanded for polygamy case judge

Posted on June 04, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: An Internet campaign has been launched calling for the impeachment of the Texas judge who ordered hundreds of children at the compound owned by the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints church taken into state custody. The online campaign, found at GoPetition...

Pittsburgh: Councilors hope ?Mutual Commitment? bill is the first step toward equal rights for same-sex couples

Posted on June 04, 2008
The Pittsburgh City Paper reports: . . . The legislation, which was to be introduced as this issue goes to press, notes that Pittsburgh “is made up of a diversity of households” that include “committed, unmarried couples in either same or opposite sex relationships...

Leonard Link: ?Alliance Defense Fund Files Misguided Lawsuit Against Paterson Marriage Move?

Posted on June 04, 2008
The Leonard Link has this post discussing ADF’s suit to prevent New York’s governor from unilaterally redefining marriage. ADF press release: ADF attorneys file suit in defense of marriage against N.Y. Gov. Paterson. Visit Site » Share This

NC: House Jettisons ?Tax? on Marriage

Posted on June 04, 2008
The North Carolina Family Policy Council reports: “During Tuesday?s budget debate, the N.C House Finance Committee eliminated a proposal in the chamber?s state spending plan that would have increased the marriage license fee in order to provide additional funding for domestic violence services...

Public decries plan for New Buffalo club

Posted on June 04, 2008
WSBT.com reports: Backers of a proposed gentleman?s club in New Buffalo Township got a not-so-nice dressing down Tuesday by dozens of residents. Many packed the auditorium at New Buffalo Middle/High School to tell the New Buffalo Township planning commission they don?t want a strip club in their community ...

?Georgetown hires gay center director away from Univ. of Md.?

Posted on June 04, 2008
The Washington Blade reports: Georgetown University has hired a University of Maryland employee to lead its new gay campus center. Shiva Subbaraman, associate director of the LGBT Equity office at the University of Maryland campus in College Park, will be the first director for Georgetown?s LGBTQ Resource Center ...

ExxonMobil Resists Homosexual Agenda

Posted on June 04, 2008
Citizen Link reports: Gay and ‘transgender’ activists are targeting corporate America to bring about widespread cultural change. For the ninth time, shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corp. have made the commonsense decision to give all employees the same rights ...

Democrats Continue to Stall on Judicial Nominees

Posted on June 04, 2008
Citizen Link reports: . . . ?The left-wing groups ? People For the American Way, Alliance for Justice, the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) ? desperately want these spots on the 4th Circuit and D.C. Circuits kept open for what they hope will be liberal activists,? he said ...

Church of England tables evangelization of Muslims debate

Posted on June 04, 2008
Christian Today reports: A controversial debate by the Church of England?s General Synod over whether it should seek to convert Muslims has been postponed to 2009. The motion, tabled by lay member Paul Eddy, received 124 signatures of support from Synod members, including the Bishop of Rochester, and was scheduled for a major debate and vote [...

NY: Ordinance Requiring Relocation of Topless Bar Survives First Amendment Challenge

Posted on June 04, 2008
Vesselin Mitev reports on the NY Law Journal: Requiring a Long Island, N.Y., topless bar to relocate does not strip First Amendment protections from the club, a federal judge has ruled in refusing to issue an injunction declaring a town’s adult-use ordinance unconstitutional...

Outcry after French court rules on virginity

Posted on June 04, 2008
The AP reports: The bride said she was a virgin. When her new husband discovered that was a lie, he went to court to annul the marriage?and a French judge agreed. The ruling ending the Muslim couple’s union has stunned France and raised concerns the country’s much-cherished secular values are losing ground to religious traditions from [...

Nation of Islam activists on Obama camp payroll

Posted on June 04, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: Sen. Barack Obama employed and continues to employ senior staffers who belong to the Nation of Islam, and the presidential candidate has some “worrying” ties to the controversial group headed by Louis Farrakhan, a former key Obama insider told WND...

ADF: 4-to-3 decision in Calif. a vote for nationwide legal chaos

Posted on June 04, 2008
. . . The court has not only ignored the will of the people of California, it has imposed years of legal chaos quite possibly on the entire nation. Without exaggeration, this decision is the most egregious case of judicial activism in modern American history ...

Maryland: ?Citizens hurt when judges take away their votes?

Posted on June 04, 2008
Arguments have been submitted to Maryland's courts urging judges to allow the estimated 900,000 voters in Montgomery County to decide whether they want to install in their laws special new protections for individuals claiming "gender identity" issues.

Latvian MPs Challenge ?Gross Interference? of EU Gay and Lesbian Group into Nation?s ?Internal Affairs?

Posted on June 04, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports:� “Following efforts from a European Parliament group to silence public disapproval of homosexual behavior, six conservative MPs from the Latvia First Party boldly challenged the “gross interference of a homosexual group of European Parliament members into Latvia’s internal affairs” in a recently released statement...

Liberal MP Motion Calls for Public Examination of Human Rights Commission

Posted on June 04, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Last week, Dr. Keith Martin introduced a motion in the House of Commons calling for a public examination of the Canada Human Rights Act and the Commission and Tribunal that stems from it. The motion calls on the Federal Government to hold public hearings across Canada on this matter...

Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order, and the Birth of Human Rights

Posted on June 04, 2008
This paper traces some changes in Catholic political theory eventually taken up and extended during World War II by Jacques Maritain, who became the foremost philosophical exponent of the idea of "human rights" on the postwar scene.

Polygamy: The Capabilities Approach, Religious Practices, and the Importance of Recognition

Posted on June 04, 2008
Certain religious practices create a clash between capabilities where the capability to religious belief and expression is in conflict with the capability of equal status and nondiscrimination.

Children and Religious Expression in School: A Comparative Treatment of the Veil and Other Religious Symbols in Western Democracies

Posted on June 04, 2008
This chapter examines the problem of the veil from a cross-cultural perspective, comparing the United States to several other western democracies. The comparison involves both legal and cultural premises.

The Theocratic Challenge to Constitution Drafting in Post-Conflict States

Posted on June 04, 2008
The emergence of a new legal order - constitutional theocracy, which is now shared in one form or another by dozens of countries in the developing world - provides important insights into the sociopolitical role of constitutionalism in predominantly religious settings.

The Myth of Separation: America?s Historical Experience with Church And State

Posted on June 04, 2008
A state preference of one denomination over others was what was primarily thought to be an establishment of religion, as the Framers did not want to duplicate the English experience with the established Anglican church.

Rick Garnett: Do Churches Matter? Towards an Institutional Understanding of the Religion Clauses

Posted on June 04, 2008
The freedom of religion is not only lived and experienced through institutions, it is also protected and nourished by them.

The Effectiveness of Media Rating Systems in Preventing Children?s Exposure to Violent and Sexually Explicit Media Content

Posted on June 04, 2008
The majority of parents strongly support the efforts of Congress to protect children from harmful and offensive entertainment speech. However, most efforts by Congress to regulate violent and indecent media programming are struck down by the courts as violating the First Amendment.

Judge Blasts Proposed Code Change as Promoting ?Homosexual Agenda?

Posted on June 04, 2008
Graves said the Oklahoma judicial code already bars judges from showing bias on the basis of sexual orientation and that such a provision ?is promoting the homosexual agenda, which is to have homosexuality treated as normal and natural . . .

?The Proposed Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment: The Constitution, The Law of Standing, and Liberal-Democratic Values?

Posted on June 04, 2008
This Article considers the proposed federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, both in terms of existing legal doctrine and in terms of liberal-democratic values.

Purging Religion From Prisons: The Constitutionality of the Standardized Chapel Library Project

Posted on June 04, 2008
Of the myriad challenges brought by prisoners against prison regulations each year, perhaps one of the most fundamentally important in the context of First Amendment protections is the prisoners' challenge to the Standardized Chapel Library Project (SCLP) in Milstein v...

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