Religion & Law

United Nations Human Rights Cmte Continues Pressuring Poland on Abortion

Posted on April 28, 2008
A United Nations human rights committee continues to pressure Poland to promote abortion.

Barack Obama Defends Opposition to Partial-Birth Abortion Ban in Interview

Posted on April 28, 2008
"In a Sunday interview, pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama defended his opposition to a ban on partial-birth abortions. Though he wasn't in Congress at the time it voted on the ban, he said he would have supported it had it contained a health exception...

Bill Could Force Hawaii Catholic Hospital to Give Morning After Pills

Posted on April 28, 2008
"Lawmakers in Hawaii are preparing legislation that would force all religious hospitals to distribute "emergency contraceptive," despite any deeply held conviction against the potentially abortifacient pills."

Kansas Judge Prevents District Attorney From Getting Abortion Reports

Posted on April 28, 2008
Kansas judge has decided to prevent a local district attorney from getting state abortion reports that could make it clear a Planned Parenthood violated state law.

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Internet porn ?encourages teenagers to have sex early?

Posted on April 28, 2008
Exposure to Internet pornography leads teenagers to lose their virginity at a "much younger" age, researchers have found.

Boys ?might do better in single-sex classes?

Posted on April 28, 2008
Boys at primary school perform 'significantly' better in English tests if they are taught in classes with fewer girls, a new study claims.

Mike Johnson discusses the Day of Truth with Janet Parshall

Posted on April 28, 2008
ADF attorney Mike Johnson joins Janet Parshall on Talking it Over to discuss the Day of Truth. The mp3 audio runs just over 23 minutes. Related: www.dayoftruth.org Share This

Kentucky student?s ordeal over mandatory ?tolerance? program continues

Posted on April 28, 2008
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund have filed an appeal to the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit against the Boyd County Board of Education on behalf of Kentucky student Timothy Morrison. Morrison?s constitutional rights were violated when a former mandatory ?tolerance? program at his high school instructed him to suppress any speech that opposes homosexual behavior.

Transgender Teaching on Tap for Maine Boys

Posted on April 28, 2008
State of Maine-Sponsored 2008 Boys to Men Conference to hold 'Queer' Youth Workshop

India PM calls abortion of baby girls shameful

Posted on April 28, 2008
India's widespread practice of aborting female fetuses is a "national shame," the prime minister said Monday, insisting the country can no longer ignore the problem if it wants to be a modern nation.

U.S. Supreme Court upholds Indiana voter ID law

Posted on April 28, 2008
SCOTUS blog provides this commentary on today’s ruling which upholds Indiana’s voter ID law in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board. Visit Site » Share This

Dems may try to link hate crimes legislation with defense spending

Posted on April 28, 2008
A senior Senate Democrat said Tuesday that he wants to use a major defense policy bill to expand federal hate crimes laws to protect gays, bring troops home from Iraq and force Baghdad to pay more toward reconstruction costs . . .

Florida Court Rejects Religious Defense To Unlicensed Midwifery Charges

Posted on April 28, 2008
The Religion Clause Blog reports: “In McGlade v. State of Florida, (FL Ct. App., April 25, 2008), a Florida state appellate court rejected a claim by two defendants accused of practicing midwifery without a license that the jury should have been instructed on their free exercise of religion defense...

Florida Commission Approves Constitutional Proposal For School Vouchers

Posted on April 28, 2008
The Religion Clause blog reports: “After some apparently complicated bargaining, the Florida Taxation and Budget Commission on Friday reversed an earlier vote and agreed to place on Florida’s November ballot a proposed state constitutional amendment that is designed to overrule a state supreme court decision striking down school vouchers...

TX: Action against strip club sought

Posted on April 28, 2008
Canutillo residents angry about a new topless club that has opened in their neighborhood will ask for help from Commissioners Court during today's regular meeting.

Indian State Implements Anti-Conversion Law

Posted on April 28, 2008
This Religion Clause blog post links to reports and provides information on the implementation of the India’s anti-conversion law. Clergy seeking to convert another person must complete appropriate forms. Religion Clause blog mentions the reports of mass re-conversions from Christianity to Hinduism...

Bible reading results in arrests

Posted on April 28, 2008
"Voice of the Martyrs is asking the communist North Korean government to release ten college students who were arrested for reading the Bible and watching a DVD about God's Word."

Internet child porn more pervasive, accessible

Posted on April 28, 2008
An Internet safety expert says while child pornography has become a multi-billion dollar commercial business, there's insufficient funding for law enforcement officers who are attempting to track down child pornographers and pedophiles . . .

U.S. ?sex culture? driving child prostitution

Posted on April 28, 2008
Pat Trueman, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, is former chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. He believes that the growth of the child prostitution industry can be easily traced.

Texas town hinders church ministry from helping parolees

Posted on April 28, 2008
An ADF-allied attorney filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday after a new Bellmead ordinance forced a church to stop operating a ministry for parolees. The House Where Jesus Shines, Inc., sponsored by the Church of the Open Door, is suing the city of Bellmead for intentionally changing the zoning on the ministry?s newly purchased property to preclude it from opening its doors, even though it is in an industrial zone.

California Supreme Court: New trial ordered on San Bernadino strip club

Posted on April 28, 2008
The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a new trial be held to determine if the city of San Bernardino intentionally misled a judge during its battle to close down a notorious strip club that officials said was actually a brothel . . .

9th Cir.: Appeals court revives school Bible club lawsuit

Posted on April 28, 2008
A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by Christian students who claimed their Washington state school district unfairly refused to recognize their Bible study club as a school-sponsored group.

South Dakota to Revisit Restrictions on Abortion

Posted on April 28, 2008
Voters in South Dakota this fall will once again be asked to consider a sweeping limit on abortion, the secretary of state announced on Friday . . .

60 Minutes interview with Justice Scalia

Posted on April 28, 2008
Lesley Stahl interviewed Justice Scalia in connection with his recently released book: Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. But, the story grew into a full-fledged profile - his first major television interview . . .

Securing the Rule of Law Through Interpretive Pluralism: An Argument from Comparative Law

Posted on April 28, 2008
This Article will argue that total consolidation of legal interpretation in a single high court is a mistake in an age where judges themselves, throughout the world, believe less and less that law is science rather than politics. Omnipotent politicians are potentially lawless despots.

Pro-Family Groups Call Review On Abstinence ?Biased?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Christians and proponents of federal abstinence programs cried foul over what they claimed was a biased attempt to write off federal abstinence until marriage programs as ineffective and damaging to the health of youth.

Sacramento Libraries Still Operating Like Porn Parlors

Posted on April 25, 2008
The 27-branch Sacramento Public Library board has deadlocked 7-7 on a proposal to abandon the policy of allowing all kinds of pornography at computer internet terminals.

Michael Stokes Paulsen: Affirmative Action Abortions

Posted on April 25, 2008
All of this, of course, is law blinking reality. Of course an aborted black human fetus has a racial identity. Of course an aborted human baby was either male or female -- a boy or a girl.

?TV has never seen more transgender characters?

Posted on April 25, 2008
This was a bold step for a network at a time when most LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) ground is broken on cable. With two cable networks -- Here! and Logo -- providing dedicated gay content, and numerous other cable networks featuring LGBT characters in original miniseries, documentaries and dramas, the LGBT experience is being portrayed with more complexity than ever.

Plan-B supporters detonate homemade explosives at Chilean university

Posted on April 25, 2008
A group called the Insurrectionalist Federation has claimed responsibility for an attack on the University of Los Andes in Santiago, Chile in which a homemade explosive device was detonated in one of the bathrooms.

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