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Canada: Deadly shooting at Vancouver strip club

Posted on May 08, 2008
"One man is dead after a double shooting outside a downtown Vancouver strip club late Wednesday night."

Bill targets sale of ?adult? video games

Posted on May 08, 2008
"Congressmen from both political parties have partnered to sponsor legislation designed to prevent children from purchasing or renting adult video games."

Prosecutor under assault for opposing homosexual agenda

Posted on May 08, 2008
FRC’s Washington Update reports: . . . Special Counsel Scott Bloch is under fire again and finding few friends within government. If you recall, Mr. Bloch began a five-year term at the Office of Special Counsel in early 2004. At that time he was approached by senior career attorneys regarding a “creative” statutory interpretation made by [...

President Issues 2008 Mother?s Day Proclamation

Posted on May 08, 2008
By providing a nurturing environment where their children can grow in confidence and character, mothers lay the foundation for the next generation of Americans to realize their full potential.

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Rights activist urges China to grant Olympic pardon

Posted on May 08, 2008
"With China's image battered by the turmoil over Tibet and the torch relay, a human rights activist is urging Chinese leaders to pardon long-jailed prisoners in a gesture that could help dispel the rancor surrounding the Beijing Olympics."

Cornell Law offers U.S. Code RSS updates

Posted on May 08, 2008
The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School is offering RSS subscriptions for updates to the United States Code. Hat tip: Law Librarian Blog Visit Site » Share This

Research revolution: Harvard Law to offer ?open access?

Posted on May 08, 2008
. . . Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted last week to make each faculty member?s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to a mandatory open access policy . . .

ADF attorney available to media after hearing on abortion clinic standards

Posted on May 08, 2008
Schowengerdt will be asking the court to determine if a Missouri law that enforces health and safety standards for abortion clinics also regulates clinics that dispense the abortion-inducing drug RU-486.

Harvard Professor: Children Can Send Marriage Into Downward Spiral

Posted on May 08, 2008
Fox News reports: Marriage has been shown, through research, to be an unending source of joy, a Harvard professor said at an Australian conference this week. But introduce children into the relationship and that joy may plummet, according to a report from the Australian Associated Press...

ObscenityCrimes.org: After 70K complaints not a single DOJ prosecution?

Posted on May 08, 2008
"The Department of Justice refused to comment for this story."

Law that would have legalized abortion in Brazil unanimously rejected

Posted on May 08, 2008
CNA reports: “On Wednesday Brazil?s Social Security and Family Commission unanimously voted to reject a new law that would have legalized abortion in the country. All 33 members of the commission voted against the law that would have made killing the unborn?for any reason?legal throughout pregnancy...

Reaffirmation, Reformation, and Repositioning at Heart of ?An Evangelical Manifesto?

Posted on May 08, 2008
"This is not a rebranding or a relabeling issue," said Dr. Os Guinness, author and member of the Manifesto's drafting committee. "'Evangelical' is not a bad brand; the trouble is, we have a bad reality." . . .

China intensifies campaign against house church Christians

Posted on May 08, 2008
China has been intensifying its campaign against the House Church Christians recently.

New idea in mortuary science: Dissolving bodies with lye

Posted on May 08, 2008
"We believe this process, which enables a portion of human remains to be flushed down a drain, to be undignified," said Patrick McGee, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester . . .

3 Michigan nominees face tough questions from U.S. senators despite deal with Bush administration.

Posted on May 08, 2008
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday closely questioned the qualifications, driving record and tax-payment history of a Michigan judge nominated to the federal court of appeals that hears cases for Michigan and other Midwestern states.

R.I. lawmakers debate bills allowing ?gay? couples to divorce

Posted on May 08, 2008
The House Judiciary Committee is now debating several bills . . . including two that would allow same-sex couples to get divorced in Rhode Island . . .

Not so Novus an Ordo: Constitutions without Social Contracts

Posted on May 08, 2008
I argue in this article, however, that something essential is lost in the casual slippage between social contract theory and the practice of constitutionalism. Enacted constitutions do not come into being against the background of a state of nature of isolated individuals

Schall: Reflections on the Natural Law

Posted on May 08, 2008
The fact remains that the terms ?rights? and ?values? are modern terms originating in and solidly grounded in modern political philosophy. They do not mean what the old Latin word justum or jus (words sometimes translated as ?right?) meant.

Head Of ?Polyamory? Group Discusses Multiple Partners

Posted on May 08, 2008
While polygamy involves having more than one spouse, Trask's group, which has 1,500 active members, including some in Connecticut, supports polyamory: having multiple loves of either sex with or without marriage.

Protecting Religious Liberty Through the Establishment Clause

Posted on May 08, 2008
The reformation of the trust raises challenging issues under the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The reformation may pass muster under the Free Exercise Clause, but the court did trespass the bounds of the Establishment Clause, which constrains the state from intruding into the functioning of a religious community.

Louisiana lawmaker seeks to regulate sexually oriented businesses

Posted on May 08, 2008
Sen. John Smith, D-Leesville, has proposed a law that will regulate video pornography shops and strip clubs throughout the state.

Sentencing in Mississippi child porn case announced

Posted on May 08, 2008
A former school teacher has been sentenced in a child porn case investigated and prosecuted by the Attorney General?s Office, announced Attorney General Jim Hood today.

Babies From Abortions, Records Found in Second Michigan Center Dumpster

Posted on May 08, 2008
"Local pro-life advocates in the Detroit area have found the bodies of babies killed in abortions and patient medical records in another Michigan abortion center's dumpster."

Religious Monuments Case Delays Army Memorial To Plane Crash Victims

Posted on May 08, 2008
The Army is delaying acceptance of the monument in anticipation of a Supreme Court ruling in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum. Summum which may decide whether acceptance of such monuments creates a public forum.

Evangelical Manifesto warns of two tier global square

Posted on May 08, 2008
[W]e are concerned that globalization and the emerging global public square have no matching vision of how to live with our deepest differences on the global stage.... [W]e warn of the danger of a two-tier global public square. This is a model of public life which reserves the top tier for cosmopolitan secular liberals, and the lower tier for local religious believers.

Study: College More Likely for Charter Students

Posted on May 08, 2008
Students who attend charter high schools are substantially more likely to graduate and go on to college than students who attend traditional public schools, a new study of Chicago schools found.

What McCain expects from federal judges

Posted on May 08, 2008
The How Appealing Blog links to several articles discussing McCain’s recent statements on judicial nominees. It includes a link to an article by Shannen W. Coffin on National Review titled: Trust But Verify: McCain on Judges. Visit Site » Share This

UK: MPs remove free speech clause from ?gay hate? law

Posted on May 07, 2008
The Christian Institute reports: The Government last night succeeded in deleting a free speech protection from its proposed homophobic hatred offence. But the House of Lords has another chance to reinsert one tonight. MPs in the House of Commons backed a Government motion to delete the free speech amendment...

Lawrence v. Texas & Defamation Law

Posted on May 07, 2008
Under the common law, wrongly calling somebody gay could get you sued for defamation and you would almost automatically incur damages, even if the plaintiff could not prove that they had suffered any tangible loss as a result. In cases of defamation "per se," courts would presume an injury that had to be compensated.

California Court of Appeals applies putative spouse doctrine to domestic partnerships

Posted on May 07, 2008
"The California Court of Appeal has ruled unanimously that a gay Orange County man who mistakenly thought his ex-partner had registered their domestic partnership is entitled to the same protections covering heterosexual spouses who discover that, for whatever reason, their marriage is not valid...

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