Religion & Law

Why Just Two? Disaggregating Traditional Parental Rights and Responsibilities to Recognize Multiple Parents

Posted on April 08, 2008
I suggest that disaggregating and redefining parentage may allow for recognition of all the relevant adults in a child's life, yet not grant equal parental rights to all individuals, unless specifically agreed upon.

New! Direct Links and other ADF Alliance Alert updates

Posted on April 07, 2008
http://www.alliancealert.org 1. DIRECT LINKS. Many ADF Alliance Alert posts have a single link that refers the reader to another web site. Some readers prefer a direct link to the source site in such circumstances. The Alert website now offers that option...

Florida: Woman kidnapped from strip club

Posted on April 07, 2008
 NBC6.net reports: “Miami-Dade police have charged a man they said abducted a woman outside of a strip club.A police spokesman said Jason Wagner, 25, was seen approaching the woman around 4:15 a.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Crazy Horse Saloon...

7th Circuit: ?T-Shirt Ruling May Impact Day Of Silence?

Posted on April 07, 2008
365Gay.com is reporting that the 7th Circuit case brought by the Alliance Defense Fund may impact the Day of Silence. ADF’s most recent press release on the 7th Circuit Case is here: ADF attorney available to media after hearing in ?Be Happy, Not Gay? case Day of Truth information can be accessed here...

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Pregnant woman thinks she?s a man and the call for sanity

Posted on April 07, 2008
Finally, a few other news organizations have picked up on the absurdity of the "mainstream" media response to this story.

Student sues California teacher for anti-Christian remarks

Posted on April 07, 2008
A federal lawsuit has been filed against a California teacher for alleged anti-Christian remarks made during classroom lectures.

Half of Kansas abortions on visitors, especially late term abortions

Posted on April 07, 2008
Of the 10,836 abortions done in Kansas in 2007, 5,162 (about 48 percent) were performed on women who lived outside of the state . . . more than 90 percent of the women getting late-term abortions were from outside Kansas.

Starting the day with the Pledge, school practices vary

Posted on April 07, 2008
The children in her new class did not say the Pledge of Allegiance every day, a contrast to the daily ritual at her former public school in Shelburne.

Hillary Clinton on Oregon?s Assisted Suicide Law: ?I Commend Oregon on this Count?

Posted on April 07, 2008
I commend Oregon on this count, as well, because whether I agree with it or not or think it's a good idea or not, the fact that Oregon is breaking new ground and providing valuable information as to what does and doesn't work when it comes to end-of-life questions, I think, is very beneficial...

Albert Mohler: The war on Fathers and Government expansion through divorce

Posted on April 07, 2008
What we call divorce has become essentially a euphemism for government officials, courts primarily, and social service agencies to invade families . . .

John Fund: Wisconsin?s Judicial Revolution

Posted on April 07, 2008
The election showed that, given a clear choice, voters usually prefer a judicial conservative to one with an activist bent.

School Choice ? Now More Than Ever

Posted on April 07, 2008
School choice is clearly making a difference for the better, which justifies expanding it, not abandoning it.

Single mothers in China forge a difficult path

Posted on April 07, 2008
In a society where until quite recently premarital sex was often punished, the issue of single motherhood has been slow to enter the public arena. But now, a new awareness of the issue is raising questions about the status of women in China.

Alaska House Approves Parental Consent Abortion Bill to Respond to State Court

Posted on April 07, 2008
The measure would revise the parental consent bill the legislature approved in 1997 that the Alaska Supreme Court eventually declared unconstitutional on a 3-2 vote.

Three Kids? You Showoffs.

Posted on April 07, 2008
What shocks people, when we tell them, isn't the thought of hauling three kids onto a place for a vacation, or even the idea of coming home every night to a houseful of runny noses and homework assignments. What gets them is the sheer financial audacity.

Advancing feminism by aborting girls

Posted on April 07, 2008
How exactly are American women empowered when abortion is deployed to prevent the existence of American girls?

Funeral Held in Baghdad for Murdered Assyrian Priest

Posted on April 07, 2008
"A service was held today at the church of st. Peter and St. Paul, in Baghdad's central Karrada neighbourhood, for Fr. Youssed Adel, who was gunned down yesterday in front of his home as he was leaving his car. An Assyrian, Fr. Adel was 40 years old and belonged to the Assyrian Orthodox Church...

Elementary lessons on ?gay? issues

Posted on April 07, 2008
The superintendent of a public school that sparked a federal lawsuit by teaching homosexuality to children as young as kindergarten has told another worried parent he can review course material, but he has no right to withdraw his child from class during lessons.

Choose Life License Plate Leader Says Success Continues Nationwide

Posted on April 07, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: The head of a national group that has helped get Choose Life license plates in states across the country says the plate campaign continues moving ahead. Russ Amerling [...]

Dinesh D?Souza: The Failure of ?Intelligent Design?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Most Christians don't care whether the eye evolved by natural selection or whether Darwin's theories can account for macroevolution or only microevolution. What they care about is that evolution is being used to deny God as the creator.

College of OBGYN backtracks on mandatory abortion stance

Posted on April 07, 2008
LifeNews.com reports: “A national OBGYN group appears to have relented somewhat in the face of pressure from pro-life doctors and the Bush administration. The board of the American College [...]

On Boy Scouts and Anti-Discrimination Law: The Associational Rights of Quasi-Religious Organizations

Posted on April 07, 2008
Using the Boy Scouts of America as a case study, this paper develops a third category of private associations, quasi-religious groups, and articulates why the category is necessary and how quasi-religious groups would fit within existing First Amendment jurisprudence.

The Second Adoption of the Free Exercise Clause: Religious Exemptions Under the Fourteenth Amendment

Posted on April 07, 2008
This Article explores the proposition that the Free Exercise Clause was adopted a second time through its incorporation into the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that the scope of the new Free Exercise Clause was intended to include protections un-anticipated at the Founding.

Sexual Democracy

Posted on April 07, 2008
Recent litigation and legislation regarding same-sex relationships in South Africa casts a spotlight on the interaction between sexuality and democracy, but the illumination is partial. It is necessary to explore sexuality in a broader context, including discomfiting sexual practices, as a matter of the democratic constitutional norms of equality and dignity.

Australia: Court takes up question of dad/daughter incest after baby dies

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Daily Telegraph reports: A father and daughter couple who are parents to a baby girl had another child who died from a congenital heart disease just days after she was born, according to explosive court documents . . . Judge Millsteed said the pair had said they accepted their relationship must end, but hoped they would [...

The Right Not to Be a Genetic Parent?

Posted on April 07, 2008
Should the law recognize an individual's right not to be a genetic parent when genetic parenthood does not carry with it legal or gestational parenthood? If so, should we allow individuals to waive that right in advance, either by contract or a less formal means?

The Justices Find Religion: Why the Supreme Court Ought to Expand Religious Accommodation Rights

Posted on April 07, 2008
This article urges greater judicial recognition of workplace religious expression rights as the only result both consistent with the Court's Establishment Clause jurisprudence and consistent with the legislative intent of statutory religious accommodation provisions.

Tenn. Attorney General Op. says proposed tax on sexually oriented business is probably unconstitutional

Posted on April 07, 2008
The Tennessee Attorney General has issued an opinion indicating that he believes a proposed tax on sexually oriented business would likely be held unconstitutional.  Op No. 08-78 indicates: QUESTION Is proposed legislation, House Bill 2676, which would impose a state privilege tax only on adult-oriented establishments for each entry by a customer, defensible in court? OPINION The proposed state [...

Tenn. Attorney General Opinion: public schools can offer Bible courses

Posted on April 07, 2008
Tennessee's attorney general says the state's public schools can offer classes on the Bible as long as the lessons don't endorse a particular religion.

Senator Vitter on Witness List in Sex Case

Posted on April 07, 2008
Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify in the upcoming trial of a woman accused of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring.

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