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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Socialists in Spain reject law outlawing religious symbols as too hasty

Posted on May 28, 2008
CNA News reports: “The majority Socialist party in Spain?s Congress joined the opposition Popular Party in rejecting a law proposed by the United Left Party that would have prohibited the displaying of religious symbols during inaugural ceremonies for public officials...

Connecticut: Religious Liberty of Catholic Hospital Under Attack Again?

Posted on May 28, 2008
The Family Institute of Connecticut Blog reports on how the abortion issue potentially complicates a merger involving a Catholic Hospital. Visit Site » Share This

NPR: 50,000-100,000 Muslims in U.S. Engaged in Polygamy?

Posted on May 28, 2008
. . . according to academics researching the issue, estimates range from 50,000 to 100,000 people . . .

CLS Blog: Tax Exemptions and Nondiscrimination

Posted on May 28, 2008
Greg Baylor writes on the CLS Blog: According to a recent New York Times article, local tax assessors in Northampton, Massachusetts, tried to impose taxes on Smith College, arguing that the women’s college engaged in sex discrimination and was thus not charitable...

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Colorado Legislation ?Normalizes All Varieties of Sexual Orientation? and threatens religious freedom

Posted on May 28, 2008
Citizen Link reports: Senate Bill 200, which is sitting on Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter’s desk, is a dangerous piece of legislation that Dr. James Dobson will highlight on his Wednesday radio broadcast. Supporters claim the bill will prevent discrimination; in reality, the bill endangers religious freedom by opening the door for the state to punish any person [...

ADF: Pa. court reverses decision against midwife for helping Amish

Posted on May 28, 2008
ADF attorneys filed a friend-of-the-court brief . . . arguing that a state board wrongly interpreted statutes so as to outlaw the practice of lay midwifery, a practice relied upon by many religious communities in the commonwealth . . .

Amnesty charges Poland with discrimination against homosexuals

Posted on May 28, 2008
CWNews reports: “Amnesty International has accused Poland of discrimination against homosexuals.” Its not the first time. Amnesty has issued numerous statements on this topic including but not limited to these: Poland: LGBT rights under attack 11...

Spending in Cal. marriage battle expected to top $30 million

Posted on May 28, 2008
The Capitol Weekly reports: California likely will�play host this fall to an unprecedented political battle over gay marriage,�as a looming ballot-initiative contest appears likely to force more than� $30 million in total spending from the rival factions...

Homosexual advocates target Mormon church in Cal. marriage battle

Posted on May 28, 2008
"A support group for gay Mormons urged church leaders Wednesday to stay on the sidelines after the California Supreme Court said same-sex marriage there is legal."

?AU Urges IRS To Investigate Religious Group?s Fund-Raising For Washington State Gubernatorial Candidate?

Posted on May 28, 2008
Americans United for Separation of Church and State has issued this press release. It reports: The Internal Revenue Service should investigate a Washington state religious group that engaged in fund-raising for a gubernatorial candidate, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State...

Ohio ACLU threatens school over Gideons

Posted on May 28, 2008
The ACLU of Ohio has issued this press release. It begins: The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio sent a letter to Findlay City Schools Superintendent Dean Witter requesting him to immediately stop school employees from escorting students to visit missionaries during school hours...

Iran arrests 12 Christian converts

Posted on May 28, 2008
The Christian Post reports: Police in a southern city in Iran reportedly arrested 12 Christian converts from Islam in what appears to be part of a crackdown on the country?s growing house church movement. The first arrests took place on May 11 at the Shiraz International Airport when two Christian couples were taken into custody before boarding [...

Cal. officials say clerks will issue marriage licenses to same sex couples on June 17th

Posted on May 28, 2008
The AP reports: “California officials are telling county clerks that they can start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 17.” But, apparently some clerks plan on starting earlier according to this report. Visit Site » Share This

Former Library Employee Brings Free Exercise Suit Over Harry Potter Event

Posted on May 28, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: In Cape Girardeau, Missouri yesterday, the ACLU filed suit on behalf of library-assistant Deborah Smith who was suspended for ten days without pay after she refused to work at an event that she said violated her religious beliefs...

Czech President V�clav Klaus: Global environmentalism is kin to communism

Posted on May 28, 2008
euPortal carries the speech given by Vaclav Klaus as he released his new book: Blue Planet in Green Shackles. Klaus states: . . . My deep frustration has been exponentially growing in recent years by witnessing the fact that almost everything has already been said, that all rational arguments have been used and that global [...

Secret plans under way to tear down Christian symbols: Army says chapel crosses violate policy

Posted on May 28, 2008
U.S. soldiers stationed at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo may be stunned to find three wooden crosses stripped from the exterior grounds of their chapel in coming weeks ? and many never saw it coming.

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

Posted on May 28, 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

It leers towards totalitarianism: The effects of the legalization of homosexual ?marriage?

Posted on May 28, 2008
. . . marriage is a pre-political institution . . . By granting the state the right to change the definition of marriage, the Supreme Court has completed the state?s aggrandizement of power over the family . . .

Assault on religious freedom seen in Michigan contraception mandate

Posted on May 28, 2008
CNSNews reports: Proposed legislation in Michigan that would require employers who provide prescription drug coverage to pay for contraception is “a direct assault upon the religious freedom rights” of Catholic and other religious employers, according to an official of the Michigan Catholic Conference...

Plastinated Body Display ?Objectifies? People Edmonton Bishops Warn

Posted on May 28, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Catholics in Edmonton are being asked to think twice before taking seeing or taking children to see the upcoming display of “plastinated” bodies at the Telus World of Science, could when it opens June 13. The Catholic Archbishop of Edmonton, Richard Smith, in a joint statement with the head of the Ukrainian Catholic church, [...

Panel discussion on California marriage decision Thursday includes ADF attorney

Posted on May 28, 2008
lliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Glen Lavy, who recently argued before the California Supreme Court to defend marriage, will participate in a panel discussion Thursday on the national implications of the California Supreme Court?s May 15 marriage decision...

Archibishop responds to questions regarding rebuke of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius

Posted on May 28, 2008
The Topeka Capital-Journal carries the Archbishop's text which is formulated as a series of questions and answers to his recent rebuke of Sebelius over her strong support for abortion.

Maggie Gallagher: Rights Activists Ignore China?s One-Birth Policy

Posted on May 28, 2008
Maggie Gallagher has this article on Townhall: . . . But to me the most shocking reminder of how horrifying the Chinese government remains lies latent in this week’s headlines: “One-Child Policy Has Exceptions After China Quake,” as the Associated Press wrote...

Teresa Stanton Collett: Judicial Modesty and Abortion

Posted on May 28, 2008
Contrary to claims made in abortion activitists' hysterical denunciations of Carhart II, the Court's decision upholding the federal partial-birth abortion ban, I conclude that a judicially modest approach is unlikely to result in the overruling of Roe v...

?Polygamy and Same-Sex Marriage - Allies or Adversaries within the Same-Sex Marriage Movement??

Posted on May 28, 2008
The article ultimately concludes that while polygamy and same-sex marriage may share some common ground, advocates should continue to distance same-sex marriage from plural marriage to avoid relinquishing the movement's hard-earned cultural capital and societal support.

Sundays Excepted: The Christian nation thesis goes to the heart of how we understand the relationship between church and state.

Posted on May 28, 2008
In the recent debates over the permissibility of religious displays in public courthouses, proponents of these displays have revived historical arguments that America is a Christian nation and that the Constitution is a Christian text.

Partial Birth Biopolitics

Posted on May 28, 2008
The Court's decision in Carhart, however, is troubling because the Act regulates medical practices on the basis of legislative repugnance regarding procedural details of a specific and complicated abortion method.

Cloning Without Conscience: The New British Embryology Bill

Posted on May 28, 2008
The bill permits the creation of so-called ?savior siblings??children created through IVF who are tested to ensure that they are genetically compatible with older siblings who might need a tissue match for therapeutic purposes.

The argument against same-sex ?marriage? that hasn?t been tried in the courts

Posted on May 28, 2008
Decisions upholding state marriage laws, however, are not necessarily ?wins? for traditional marriage. They are stepping stones toward a showdown over the meaning of Romer and Lawrence, where a split between states in their interpretation of the cases is a prerequisite for review by the Supreme Court.

Florida Appeals Court Refuses to Expand Loss of Consortium Claim to Same-Sex Couple

Posted on May 27, 2008
Leonard Link reports: The Florida First District Court of Appeal has refused to develop the common law of Florida to recognize a loss of consortium claim brought by the same-sex partner of a woman injured in an auto accident.� Asserting that such claims depend upon a legally recognized relationship between the parties, the court distinguished all [...

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