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Planned Parenthood of New Jersey Rallies Forces against Crisis Pregnancy Centers

Posted on April 23, 2008
LifeSiteNews.com reports: Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey continued their attack on Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC) last week when it exhorted its supporters to back the Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women’s Services Act (SDAWS). That act that calls for the Federal Trade Commission to enforce truth-in-advertising standards so as to make it illegal for CPCs to [...

Settling Church Property Disputes in the Context of the Episcopal Church

Posted on April 23, 2008
This Article first explores the two approaches the Supreme Court has authorized for resolution of church property dispute cases.

Treating Like Subdecisions Alike: The Scope of Stare Decisis as Applied to Judicial Methodology

Posted on April 23, 2008
This Note focuses on stare decisis with respect to subdecisions about statutory interpretation to shed light on the broader issue of the scope of stare decisis.

License to Discriminate: ?Choose Life? License Plates and the Government Speech

Posted on April 23, 2008
In ACLU of Tennessee v. Bredesen, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a Tennessee statute that authorized the sale of a license plate bearing the words ?Choose Life,? despite the fact that the State refused to authorize a similar license plate bearing a ?Pro-Choice? message.

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Springtime for Judges: Judges try to run out the clock on nominees

Posted on April 23, 2008
The issue now is whether Mr. McConnell will let Democrats get away with confirming their favored nominees instead of those whose nominations have been pending for years.

A Reexamination of the Tinker Standard: Freedom of Speech in Public Schools

Posted on April 23, 2008
In some countries, such as the Netherlands and Canada, gay marriage has been a legal right granted to gay and lesbian citizens. Yet the debate continues. Pursuant to the very purpose of the First Amendment, to protect and promote debate, every adult in this country is entitled to his or her own viewpoint on this issue.

Government-Sponsored Chaplains and Crisis: Walking the Fine Line in Disaster Response and Daily Life

Posted on April 23, 2008
Two significant public issues have been the limits of partnership between government and religion and government's role in helping citizens cope with disasters. One intriguing intersection of these issues is local governments' use of chaplaincy programs to address the human face of trauma, both large-scale and personal.

Inside the FBI Inspections of Adult Movie Company Age-Verification Records

Posted on April 23, 2008
In 2006, for the first time in history and nearly two decades after the law went on the books, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began random inspections of the companies' age-verification records that are required pursuant to 18 U.S.C. � 2257 and the related federal regulations, to prove that all performers engaging in sexually explicit conduct are at least eighteen years of age.

Free Exercise Claims in Custody Battles: Is Heightened Scrutiny Required Post-Smith?

Posted on April 23, 2008
This Note discusses how free exercise claims made in custody disputes should be handled post-Employment Division v. Smith. Before Smith, the Supreme Court had held that free exercise claims should be evaluated using strict scrutiny.

Reweighting the Balance: Religious Groups, Mortal Threats, and ?Hybrid Situations?

Posted on April 23, 2008
In my Note, I propose that Muslim plaintiffs can plead ?hybrid? claims in order to encourage judicial solicitude for how profiling that burdens their religiously motivated exercise of secular constitutional rights can also threaten to subordinate their religious community as a whole.

UK: To fight prostitution, some say target clients

Posted on April 22, 2008
"Would the hundreds of men who paid to have sex with "Alicia" have cared if they knew she was being held captive by a trafficker who raped her and pimped her, and that she was infected with HIV?"

Iowa House Removes Funding to Planned Parenthood Abortion Centers

Posted on April 22, 2008
The Iowa House handed pro-life advocates a victory on Monday night when it voted to remove taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business from the state budget.

AZ House revives marriage amendment

Posted on April 22, 2008
Supporters of a proposed state constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriages have revived the proposal.

Human Rights Campaign Foundation introduces employer?s guide for transgender workers

Posted on April 22, 2008
"Today the Human Rights Campaign Foundation released a new guide to provide human resource and other employment professionals with best practices for advancing transgender workplace inclusion."

American Psychiatric Association has agreed to host a discussion on religion and therapy for homosexuality

Posted on April 22, 2008
". . . The APA is getting, I believe, a lot of pressure from within their own ranks of people who feel that they are shutting out the religious dimension. I think they are beginning to heed that.?

NY Schools spend more than a decade trying to exclude churches

Posted on April 22, 2008
. . . some governments are still reluctant to allow religious speakers to use public property. One such government is the New York City Board of Education, which has been defending its exclusion of the Bronx Household of Faith from meeting space for years ...

Student-led ?Day of Truth? to be held April 28

Posted on April 22, 2008
Alliance Defense Fund sponsors fourth annual "Day of Truth" to allow students to express Christian viewpoint on homosexual behavior, reports ADF Media Relations.

Chinese man rearrested for publishing Bibles, literature

Posted on April 22, 2008
"Shi Weihan, a Chinese bookstore owner in Beijing, has been rearrested for publishing Bibles and Christian literature during a time when a shortage of such materials has been reported in China."

Child Protection v. the Constitution: Did Removal of 437 Kids Violate Parents? Rights?

Posted on April 22, 2008
ut more troubling is the planned separation from their parents of all other children who had been living at the Yearning for Zion ranch, including infants still being nursed by their mothers, even though there doesn't appear to be clearcut evidence that at least many of them were neglected or physically abused, according to the Dallas Morning News and other media reports.

When Muslims Embrace Christianity in the U.K.

Posted on April 22, 2008
"Muslims converting to Christianity is a thorny issue almost anywhere in the world, but recently U.K. media attention has focused in on the persecution of former Muslims not in foreign land but in its own backyard."

KS Legislature Asked to Stop Lawlessness in Abortion Cases

Posted on April 22, 2008
"Operation Rescue is asking the Kansas Legislature to take action to compel the Executive and Judicial branches to stop engaging in lawless acts to cover-up for abortion wrongdoing."

?Seeking LGBTs to Serve the Next Administration?

Posted on April 22, 2008
"The group's Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute in March unveiled a nonpartisan project to attract LGBT individuals who want to work for the next president . . . "

Homosexual media boasts of ?coming of age and shaping American politics?

Posted on April 22, 2008
"And today, through newspapers, blogs, websites, radio talk and even television, we?re coming of age and shaping American politics every single day."

Dogs ?rescue? girl abandoned by Indian mother

Posted on April 22, 2008
Hundreds of villagers have flocked to a remote Indian village to see a baby girl who was saved by stray dogs after she was abandoned in a mound of mud by her mother, officials said on Tuesday . . .

Vatican cardinal weighs in on pro-abortion politicians and Communion

Posted on April 22, 2008
A newly released video of a 2007 appearance of Francis Cardinal Arinze shows the cardinal addressing the issue of Catholic politicians who support permissive abortion laws but also present themselves for Holy Communion.

Gonzales v. Carhart: One Year Later Letting the People Decide

Posted on April 22, 2008
With the Supreme Court's increasing deference to the people, it falls to the American public to weigh such unsupported rhetoric in light of increasing evidence of abortion's negative impact, and to decide issues of abortion policy wisely -- just as the Founders trusted them to do.