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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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?She?s right. Homosexuality isn?t like race?

Posted on May 09, 2008
WorldNetDaily reports: An author who wrote two books about homosexuality told managers at the University of Toledo in an open letter they should praise an administrator who said being “gay” is not the same as black, not suspend her. The comments were addressed to University of Toledo President Lloyd Jacobs by Robert A...

Iowa: Dubuque strip club files suit against city

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Chicago Tribune reports that the city’s only strip club has sued Dubuque challenging its new ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses. The ordinance bans alcohol, enacts licensing requirements and establishes buffer zones between customers and strippers...

Ontario: Proposal to remove Legislature?s Lord?s Prayer raises firestorm

Posted on May 09, 2008
"Now, feelings are running so high the province's website crashed this week with an influx of protesting emails from the public."

Hartford Courant Promotes ?Polyamory?

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Family Institute of Connecticut Blog has this post regarding a Hartford Courant article: “But with this article the campaign for polyamory has now taken its first step in Connecticut?and it was the push for same-sex marriage that made it possible...

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Canadian pro-lifers join in largest-ever march on Parliament

Posted on May 09, 2008
"A massive crowd of pro-life demonstrators, the majority of whom were youths, gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 8 to issue a call to legislators and Canadians as a whole to put an end to abortion in Canada . . . "

?It?s Obscene!?: Conference Against Pornography

Posted on May 09, 2008
Concerned Women for America has issued this press release announcing a conference against pornography at the National Press Club. Visit Site » Share This

Schools try to close an achievement gap with single-sex classes

Posted on May 09, 2008
Boys still will be boys - and launch their paper planes - but their antics have toned down, teachers said. Girls have stopped preening in class. And both groups appear to be more confident asking and answering questions.

?It Feels as if the Soul of Britain is Dying?

Posted on May 09, 2008
England is fast transforming itself into a secular state, even as it holds onto its established church, the Church of England. In a separate editorial, Gledhill expressed her lament, noting that "there is something unbearably sad about the plight of Christianity in this country...

Embryonic Stem Cells 2.0: Scientists? enthusiasm grows for induced pluripotent cells

Posted on May 09, 2008
"When Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University reported his transformation of cultured mouse skin cells into a state approximating that of embryonic stem cells, he was met with plenty of scepticism. Other scientists hadn't anticipated that such a feat was possible...

$500K grant funds high-level executive development for ?out? leaders

Posted on May 09, 2008
GayPolitics.com reports on a new $500K grant: The David Bohnett Foundation has teamed with the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute (GLLI) to help the organization sponsor lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender public officials in attending one of the nation?s most prestigious mid-career executive development programs ? the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at [...

Indiana ACLU challenges law regulating sex shops

Posted on May 09, 2008
"The Indiana Civil Liberties Union filed suit to stop a law aimed at adult bookstores from going into effect. This bill was passed, in part, to stop adult bookstores like the one at U.S. 231 and Interstate 64 from opening."

Supreme Court Reviewing Appeals Court Rulings on Forced Abortion Asylum

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Supreme Court is reviewing decisions made at the appeals court level about forced abortion asylum for victims of the one-child policy in China. The dispute is over whether partners of the women who are victimized can qualify for asylum and interpreting the U...

New British Study on Premature Births Used to Justify Late-Term Abortions

Posted on May 09, 2008
A new study in England claiming no progress has been made in improving survival rates for unborn children born premature is being used to justify late-term abortions there. MPs are using the new study to oppose an effort to move the limit on such abortions back from 24 weeks to 20 weeks.

Findlaw Commentator: McCain proves judicial activism is a non-issue

Posted on May 09, 2008
"There is an obvious reason why McCain could muster only scant evidence for his rant against liberal judicial activism: Liberal judicial activism, as McCain invokes the term, has been dying for a long time and is now pretty close to dead. The Supreme Court is decidedly conservative and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future...

Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families

Posted on May 09, 2008
Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.

Romney: Religion is indispensable to freedom for everyone, including atheists

Posted on May 09, 2008
In a coercive society "it may be the non-believer who is among the first to be condemned. A coercive monopoly of belief threatens everyone, whether we are talking about those who search the philosophies of men or follow the words of God . . . "

President nominates Glen E. Conrad to 4th Circuit

Posted on May 09, 2008
Conrad has been a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia since 2003. The How Appealing blog provides numerous links and details. Visit Site » Share This

Oregon threatens over statutes copyright?

Posted on May 09, 2008
David Post has this post on the Volokh Conspiracy indicating that the state of Oregon is threatening some web vendors who have post the state statutes on their website. Apparently, Oregon is trying to claim copyright. Post writes: What burns me up is that the State of Oregon would choose to assert its rather fanciful copyright [...

Examining the Science & Politics of HPV Vaccine

Posted on May 09, 2008
It has been nearly two years since the FDA fast tracked the licensure of Merck's GARDASIL vaccine and the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended it for universal use by all 11 year old girls.

ADF announces new initiative to reclaim pastors? First Amendment rights

Posted on May 09, 2008
The Alliance Defense Fund announced a new initiative Friday that will challenge the tactics of groups that use the Internal Revenue Service to intimidate churches and pastors into silence on important issues of the day.

Wall Street Journal: Pastors May Defy IRS Gag Rule

Posted on May 09, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund, a Scottsdale, Ariz., nonprofit, is hoping at least one sermon will prompt the Internal Revenue Service to investigate, sparking a court battle that could get the tax provision declared unconstitutional.

AU: ?Pulpit Plot: ADF Schemes To Test Tax-Law Limits On Church Partisanship?

Posted on May 09, 2008
I hope clergy across America boldly speak out against the ADF?s nefarious scheme in the loudest possible terms.

Bill to expand Alabama?s hate crimes law moves ahead

Posted on May 09, 2008
". . . The bill would expand the law to cover crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation . . . "

10th Circuit: Federal eagles protection law trumps tribe?s traditional religious ceremony

Posted on May 09, 2008
Winslow Friday, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming, shot a bald eagle for use in the tribe?s traditional religious ceremony, the Sun Dance. He was charged under federal law with shooting an eagle without a permit, which is forbidden by the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act...

Judge rules Planned Parenthood clinics dispensing RU-486 must follow law

Posted on May 09, 2008
A Missouri judge ruled Friday that a state law that enforces health and safety standards for surgical abortion clinics also regulates clinics that dispense the abortion-inducing drug RU-486.

?Pastors encouraged to violate IRS ban on partisan politics?

Posted on May 09, 2008
"Churches have for too long feared the loss of tax exempt status arising from speech in the pulpit addressing candidates for office," the ADF's white paper on the campaign confirmed. "Rather than risk confrontation, pastors have self-censored their speech, ignoring blatant immorality in government and foregoing the opportunities to praise moral government leaders ...

Two families, two approaches to gender preferences

Posted on May 08, 2008
Warren Throckmorton links to a National Public Radio broadcast that contrasts the approaches of two different families in dealing with their child’s gender identity issues. Visit Site » Share This

Interspecies Marriage

Posted on May 08, 2008
Rather, it is meant to suggest that the concept of marriage as a socially and spiritually sanctioned partnership need not be restricted to humans alone if the partners to the arrangement are bound by a clear sense of loving and lifelong commitment . .

UK: Free speech victory over ?homosexual hatred? law

Posted on May 08, 2008
The Government backed down last night and allowed a free speech protection to be written into its proposed 'homophobic hatred' law.

Rutherford Institute Intervenes After School Officials Allegedly Order Students to Cease Wearing ?Virginity Rocks? Abstinence T-Shirts

Posted on May 08, 2008
Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute have come to the defense of high school students who were allegedly warned by school officials to cease wearing t-shirts to school that proclaim an abstinence message.

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