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Cal Marriage ruling: Are judges from ?elite? law schools more prone to activism?

Posted on May 19, 2008
Above the Law has this interesting observation regarding the judges on the California Supreme Court. Visit Site » Share This

Missouri Gubernatorial Candidate Wants Special Session on Forced Abortions

Posted on May 19, 2008
Sarah Steelman, a Republican candidate for governor, is calling on the Missouri state legislature to hold a special session on a bill that would prohibit forced abortions in the state. The legislature ended its session and did not complete its work on the coercive abortion issue.

Erik Stanley with Heidi Harris on KDWN: IRS restrictions on pastors from the pulpit

Posted on May 19, 2008
ADF attorney Erik Stanley joins Heidi Harris on KDWN to discuss IRS restrictions on pastors speaking from the pulpit. The mp3 file is here. It runs just over 8 minutes. Visit: ADF Pulpit Project Share This

Pregnancy Center Group: Supreme Court Should Hear Abortion Deception Case

Posted on May 19, 2008
A leading organization that represents the thousands of pregnancy resource centers across the country wants the Supreme Court top hear a New Jersey case involving an abortion practitioner who misled a woman. In November, the New Jersey Supreme Court sided with Sheldon Turkish.

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Underage prostitutes marketed on Internet

Posted on May 19, 2008
If she tried hard, 14-year-old Jasmine could have sex with nine men a day. She'd start posting ads online at 2 or 3 p.m., in time to set up appointments with early commuters.

?Gay marriage: Where to now?? Glen Lavy of ADF v. Jon W. Davidson of Lambda Legal

Posted on May 19, 2008
The majority's redefinition of "marriage" was an unavoidable first step in striking down the will of the people. That's because none of the arguments for same-sex "marriage" make any sense whatsoever if "marriage" means the legal union of a man and woman.

ADF: Planned Parenthood should surrender records after not reporting rape

Posted on May 19, 2008
Brief filed with Ohio Supreme Court argues abortion clinic may not withhold records related to lawsuit asserting statutory rape cover-up.

Texas: State faces new headache over immunizing sect children

Posted on May 19, 2008
A state requirement that children in foster care be inoculated against disease has prompted another round of headaches for lawyers who represent 464 children taken from a polygamist ranch last month . . .

Redefining marriage in a culture where sexual behavior is purely private

Posted on May 19, 2008
. . The response to the court?s decision ? positive in many quarters ? drove home the hard fact that traditionalists are losing the battle of both language and ideas in the public square . . .

D?Souza: ?Gay Rights vs. Democracy?

Posted on May 19, 2008
It is the essence of democracy that people should be able to decide the moral rules that govern the nature of a community. If people don't have that power, then they are living under an autocracy . . .

UK: MPs back creation of human-animal embryos

Posted on May 19, 2008
An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that would have outlawed the creation of ?human admixed embryos? for medical research was defeated in a free vote by a majority of 160, preserving what Gordon Brown regards as a central element of the legislation ...

Democrats for School Choice

Posted on May 19, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reports: When Florida passed a law in 2001 creating the Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship Program for underprivileged students, all but one Democrat in the state legislature voted against it. Earlier this month, lawmakers extended the program ? this time with the help of a full third of Democrats in the Legislature, including [...

Family Research Council Calls On Department of Justice, Presidential Candidates to Enforce Obscenity Laws

Posted on May 19, 2008
"We call on the Bush Administration and on the next President of the United States to give us back our voice, and vigorously enforce this nation's obscenity laws."

Calif. measure will test public opinion on marriage

Posted on May 19, 2008
The most recent polls, conducted in 2006 and 2007, found that 51 percent and 49 percent of survey respondents opposed making gay marriage legal, while 43 percent and 45 percent endorsed the idea.

US Serviceman In Iraq relieved of duty for using Quran for target practice, Muslims demand severe punishment

Posted on May 19, 2008
The sergeant has been relieved of duty as a section leader "with prejudice," officially reprimanded by his commanding general, dismissed from his regiment and redeployed -- reassigned to the United States.

IRS rejects AU complaint, finds Calif. church didn?t violate tax code

Posted on May 19, 2008
. . . The Internal Revenue Service has concluded that political endorsements by Pastor Wiley Drake in e-mails and on his radio show were made without any connection to the church . . .

Fred Thompson: Conservatives shouldn?t call for Federal Marriage Amendment

Posted on May 19, 2008
Fred Thompson has this commentary on Townhall.� He rebukes the California court for judicial activism, but then proceeds to argue against a Federal Marriage Amendment. Visit Site » Share This

Liberty Counsel Files Brief in California Homeschool Case on Behalf of Members of United States Congress

Posted on May 19, 2008
Tomorrow, on behalf of 19 members of the United States Congress, Liberty Counsel will file a 57-page brief with the California Court of Appeal in the homeschooling case known as In re Rachel L, et al. v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles.

Legal scholar acknowledges that civil unions lead to marriage redefinition

Posted on May 19, 2008
Like the ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the 2003 case of Goodridge v. Dep't of Public Health, last week's California ruling rested in part on the fact that the state already provided same-sex couples the option of entering into state-sanctioned domestic partnerships (sometimes called "civil unions") with the same legal benefits and responsibilities as marriage

Want a sex change: Doctor specializes in stopping those hormone early

Posted on May 19, 2008
Boston?s Children?s Hospital bills itself as the hospital for children ? and now it?s also the hospital for children who want a sex change, a procedure some critics are calling ?barbaric.?

Glen Lavy: Voters need to speak again on marriage

Posted on May 19, 2008
If the first concern of the state's highest tribunal (and the majority of California elected officials) is not the welfare of children, or respect for profound legal precedent, or the expressed will of most of the state's electorate ? what is defining the court's priorities?

?Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault?

Posted on May 19, 2008
"Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday."

?Churches risk tax-exempt status when dabbling in politics?

Posted on May 19, 2008
Haney said churches are virtually the only charities that do not have to go to the IRS for a tax-exempt designation. He said that "Section 508" churches can function as such without an IRS determination letter, which gives the federal agency no designation to revoke ...

Wiley Drake on IRS probe: ?We win.?

Posted on May 19, 2008
Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake Sr. announced today that the Internal Revenue Service cleared him of any wrongdoing in his endorsement of presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.

Same-Sex Marriage and Racial Justice Find Common Ground

Posted on May 19, 2008
"That was when Shannon P. Minter, a lawyer with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, knew things were looking good for his side. The chief justice seemed to be accepting arguments for same-sex marriage that were consciously rooted in the struggle for equal rights for blacks...

U.S. Supreme Court upholds federal statute prohibiting child porn solicitation and offers to provide it

Posted on May 19, 2008
Today, the United States Supreme Court upheld a federal statute that prohibits solicitation of child pornography . . . Offers to engage in illegal transactions are categorically excluded from First Amendment protection.

Pa. Justices Hear Arguments Over ?Control? of Images in Child Porn Case

Posted on May 19, 2008
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court justices considered whether a person looking at a book in a library is analogous to a person downloading files from the Internet and whether, in either circumstance, the person is in "control" of the material.

?Celebration, then strategizing in Calif. Gays look to Mass. in battle to keep marriage rights?

Posted on May 19, 2008
. . . "In Massachusetts, the sky didn't fall in," and "the institution of marriage didn't end," for heterosexual couples, Newsom said yesterday in a telephone interview. "We have a good chance" of defeating the amendment, he said, but "it's going to be a tough campaign...

California chief justice says same-sex marriage ruling was one of his toughest

Posted on May 19, 2008
But as he read the legal arguments, the 68-year-old moderate Republican was drawn by memory to a long ago trip he made with his European immigrant parents through the American South. There, the signs warning "No Negro" or "No colored" left "quite an indelible impression on me," he recalled in a wide-ranging interview Friday.

John McCain and Barack Obama: Two visions of the Supreme Court

Posted on May 19, 2008
McCain wants to end 'judicial activism.' Obama favors justices with 'empathy' for ordinary people.

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