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Canada: Group must pay homosexual worker who had to quit job

Posted on April 25, 2008
Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal says a provincially funded Christian group violated the rights of a worker who had to quit her job after revealing she was gay.

LaBarbera Calls for ?Breaking the Silence? on the Health Risks of Homosexual Behavior

Posted on April 25, 2008
Americans For Truth (AFTAH) President Peter LaBarbera today called on schools, the media and opinion-makers to "break the silence" regarding the serious health risks of homosexual behavior, and said Americans deserve an official government investigation into the matter.

Chicago cannot stop church lawsuit for lien over bake sales

Posted on April 25, 2008
A court Thursday blocked the city of Chicago?s attempt to stop a lawsuit filed by an ADF-allied attorney representing Beth-El All Nations Church.

Obama aide says he didn?t mean to blaspheme Jesus

Posted on April 25, 2008
An Obama adviser [Larry Lessig] denies he had blasphemous intent by including in his lectures a video of a 'gay' Jesus Christ sashaying nearly naked down a city street to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive," only to get run over by a bus.

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Footballers launch anti-homophobia campaign in honour of Justin Fashanu

Posted on April 25, 2008
A campaign is being launched to help stamp out homophobia in British football. Justin is a campaign against homophobia in football that aims to, "vindicate the memory of Justin Fashanu, the world?s first openly gay professional footballer."

KY: Top church court reviews ?gay marriage? case

Posted on April 25, 2008
LOUISVILLE, Ky.?The highest court of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is reviewing the case of a longtime minister found guilty of violating church law for officiating at the weddings of two lesbian couples.

Poland Pressured on Abortion and Sexual Orientation by UN Human Rights Committee

Posted on April 25, 2008
The government of Poland was pressed on the issue of abortion and sexual orientation by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week. The grilling came during something called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a process mandated by the UN General Assembly.

Bill to Ban Human-Animal Hybrid Creation Introduced in Congress

Posted on April 25, 2008
Yesterday, Rep. Chris Smith introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act, H.R. 5910, to ban the creation of part-human, part-animal hybrid beings.

SD: Voters Will Consider Second Abortion Ban Effort in November

Posted on April 25, 2008
From LifeNews: South Dakota voters will have a second chance to consider an abortion ban as State Election Supervisor Kea Warne says the Yote Yes for Life group sponsoring the measure got enough signatures to qualify it for the ballot. The pro-life group needed 16,776 petition signatures and turned in about 50,000...

OH: Pro-Life Students Threatened With Missing Prom Over Abortion Shirts

Posted on April 25, 2008
High school students in a Toledo suburb were threatened with having to skip prom and other senior graduation events if they didn't remove their pro-life T-shirts. A group of students had planned to draw attention to the destruction of human life in abortion until school officials got upset.

?Exploding the myth of trafficking?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Laura Mar�a Agust�n?s provocative new book . . . really does what it says on the back cover: ?[It] explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims, and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest...

Does a Minority Religion Have a Right to Join Majority Religions in Placing Its Own Monument in a Public Park?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Via How Appealing, a FindLaw essay by Vikram Amar and Alan Brownstein on the question, "Does a Minority Religion Have a Right to Join Majority Religions in Placing Its Own Monument in a Public Park?"

CA: Effort intensifies for same-sex marriage ban

Posted on April 25, 2008
"The California marriage amendment will allow the people of California, not politicians or courts, to decide the meaning of marriage and place that meaning inside the Constitution," Joseph Infranco, an attorney for Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona group helping the initiative campaign, said as he delivered about 44,000 petitions to Sacramento County's registrar of voters office.

Levin to introduce hate crimes measure

Posted on April 25, 2008
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chair of the influential Senate Armed Services Committee, said he plans to introduce the hate crimes bill as an amendment to the fiscal year 2009 Defense Authorization Act, either in committee next week or on the Senate floor in late May.

Kazakhstan: Growing threats to religious property

Posted on April 25, 2008
Although the building, which was a disused kindergarten when the church acquired it ten years ago, has been extensively renovated by the church, the authorities are not offering either compensation or another building.

I?m Conservative, But Not Biased, Scalia Says

Posted on April 25, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is admittedly a conservative and a law-and-order guy. But he's not biased -

Chilean Catholics Protest Court Ruling against Free Contraception Program

Posted on April 25, 2008
From the Feminist Daily News Wire: Hundreds of Chileans announced that they will leave the Catholic Church on April 29, in protest of the Vatican involvement with a court’s anti-contraception ruling. Chile’s Constitutional Court outlawed President Michelle Bachelet’s free emergency contraception distribution program on April 18...

Embryo Donation-Adoption Conference

Posted on April 25, 2008
Emerging Issues in Embryo Donation and adoption will be the centerpiece of a first of its kind conference next month in Washington D.C.

What abortion is to American Catholics, the death penalty is for Italians

Posted on April 25, 2008
For many Italian Catholics, and perhaps Catholics in other European countries as well, the death penalty is what abortion is for many Catholics in the United States ? the defining moral issue of the time.

Study shows homosexual teens want to be parents some day

Posted on April 25, 2008
Research indicates that lesbian and gay kids want to be married with children by the time they?re in their 30?s. In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, social scientists have found that many lesbian and gay youth have expectations of spending their adult life in a long-term relationship raising children.

?Straight Talk About Casual Sex?

Posted on April 25, 2008
There is a mountain of media out there promoting a phony philosophy about the joys of casual, risky sexual experimentation; one need look no further than the junk advice featured in magazines like Cosmopolitan to see just how pernicious it is.

Abstinence Education: Bias on the Hill and in the Press

Posted on April 25, 2008
Both the LA Times and Reuters reported that abstinence-only education has received ?$1.3 billion? in federal funds since the late 1990s, but they failed to put the number in context.

Profs Protest Commencement Address by Justice Clarence Thomas

Posted on April 25, 2008
Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal is following the controversy surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas' commencement address at the University of Georgia

Chinese-Christians Are Paying a High Price for the Olympics

Posted on April 25, 2008
Little, however, is said about China's religious persecution, especially of Christians. Yet it is on par with, if not worse than, the harsh and oppressive treatment of demonstrators in Tibet that has received widespread news coverage and caused public outrage.

Why Muslims Convert to Christianity

Posted on April 25, 2008
An Egyptian convert contrasted the love shown by Christians ?with the unloving treatment of Muslim students and faculty he encountered at a university in Medina.?

CLA radio: Marriage and the Constitution

Posted on April 25, 2008
David Gibbs of the Christian Law Association talks marriage and the Constitution on the CLA's radio program.

Al Mohler: The Politics of Religion ? A Secularist Attempt

Posted on April 25, 2008
In the current issue of The New Statesman, a prominent intellectual journal in Great Britain, she argues again that political policies must be free from religious influence. The background is a new controversy there over the potential creation of human-animal hybrid embryos.

TN: Strip Clubs Prepare For New Reality

Posted on April 25, 2008
This week's federal court ruling denying a request by strip club owners to block enforcement of a new county ordinance governing them is set to take effect Wednesday.

?Some Young Religious Voters Steering Away From Anti-Gay Measures?

Posted on April 25, 2008
Underwood and a growing number of other young, left-leaning believers are entering the political arena as campaign aides, lobbyists, grass-root activists and engaged voters. They are trying to expand the focus of faith-based politics beyond the religious right's hot-button issues of abortion and gay marriage.

Day of Silence spurs protest

Posted on April 25, 2008
"If you're not going to be educated that day, why let them go to school?" said Bill Brooks, executive director of the N.C. Family Policy Council, one of the groups encouraging parents to consider taking their children out of school today.

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