Religion & Law

Wyoming: ACLU sues to change meal schedule for Muslim inmates

Posted on April 04, 2008
The inmates claim that the prison's 20-minute rule for meals interferes with their practice of religion. They say they're forced to choose between eating and finishing their prayers.

Catholic Medical Students Association objects to flawed ethics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists? Committee on Ethics

Posted on April 04, 2008
The CMSA concurs with the CMA's judgment regarding the Opinion's flawed ethical analysis and unworkable and discriminatory recommendations that would impose sanctions on Catholic and other physicians who are-out of desire for the authentic good of the patient-morally opposed to abortion, contraception, and certain artificial reproductive technologies, and further calls for the rescinding of ACOG Committee Opinion No...

AZ governor vetoes partial birth abortion bill and parental consent bill

Posted on April 04, 2008
The bills vetoed Friday include one to prohibit partial birth abortions. The other vetoed bill spelled out criteria judges should consider when juveniles seek bypass of parental consent.

Assemblywoman Reintroduces Law to Ban Spanking in California

Posted on April 04, 2008
"Assemblywoman Sally Lieber has introduced a bill that will effectively ban spanking in California. Identical to last year's highly publicized AB 755, this new AB 2943 will make it a crime to spank a child."

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Malaysia seeks ?affection? ban on non-Muslims

Posted on April 04, 2008
Islamic lawyers meeting in Malaysia want an existing ban on unwed Muslim couples from cuddling or holding hands to be extended to non-Muslims caught flirting with the faithful, a local newspaper said on Thursday.

Court refuses to dismiss Mike Adams? religious discrimination suit against UNC-Wilmington

Posted on April 04, 2008
A federal court denied most of UNCW?s motion to dismiss on Monday, holding that Adams raised legitimate arguments regarding the possibility that the school refused to grant him full professorship status because of his religious beliefs and conservative political viewpoint.

ADF responds to latest ACLU attempt to silence public prayer

Posted on April 04, 2008
?Public officials throughout the country need to be encouraged and reminded that they can and should resist the increasingly radical demands of secularist groups, such as the ACLU.?

Darwinists Disgruntled over Ben Stein?s Expelled

Posted on April 04, 2008
This is not your father's documentary. Expelled rocks the house both literally and figuratively. It's gripping, music-packed, comically wry and always entertaining. But its entertainment value is yet surpassed by its educational merit . . .

Georgia: Federal court rules for church in Marietta zoning case

Posted on April 04, 2008
A church in Marietta has won part of a federal lawsuit it filed to overturn Marietta's zoning code so the church could build a sanctuary and boarding school. The church's legal team includes Alliance Defense Fund, a faith-based law firm founded in 1994.

Competing abortion bills before the U.S. Senate

Posted on April 04, 2008
On April 2, Senators David Vitter (R-LA), George Voinovich (R-OH), and Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduced the Pregnant Women Health and Safety Act.

Domestic partner bill passes Maryland legislature

Posted on April 04, 2008
If the Governor signs the bill, which he has said he would, young couples cohabitating and senior couples living together in order to beat social security and pension rules will now have sanction for that behavior by Maryland law. It should be wrong to pass a law in order to get around another, existing law.

ADF attorney available to media after hearing in ?Be Happy, Not Gay? case

Posted on April 03, 2008
ADF attorneys are appealing a federal judge?s decision to prohibit Christian high school students from expressing their views on homosexual behavior.

Gary McCaleb on Jerry Johnson Live: censorship of Christian expression in public schools

Posted on April 03, 2008
ADF Attorney Gary McCaleb discusses the case of a Wisconsin students whose religious art was suppressed by the school district on the Jerry Johnson Live show with Penna Dexter. The mp3 file runs just under 10 minutes. Related posts: ADF attorneys appear on TV to discuss censorship of Wisconsin student?s religious art Student Sues Wisconsin School After Getting a [...

Crackdown on biblical speech challenged

Posted on April 03, 2008
WorldNetDaily has this report on the Harper case filed by ADF that is pending at the 9th Circuit. It begins: A brief has been filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California again challenging a district’s policy that allows such slogans as “Stop the Hate,” “fags,” “queers,” “that’s so gay” and even [...

George Will: Breaking the bank in Las Vegas, the 3rd richest American

Posted on April 03, 2008
George Will has this commentary on Townhall discussing the gambling and casino related activities of America's third richest American.

The UN Human Rights Council and the Influence of Nondemocratic States on International Law

Posted on April 03, 2008
Evaluating the problem of the extensive influence repressive nondemocratic regimes have on international law and religious freedom.

Major Belgian law firm launches Islamic finance practice

Posted on April 03, 2008
Loyens & Loeff has launched an Islamic finance practice -- in a move thought to make Loyens the first Benelux firm to target the sector with a dedicated team.

Florida House passes bill to mandate ultrasounds before abortions

Posted on April 03, 2008
A woman seeking an abortion in Florida would first have to get an ultrasound and review or turn down seeing the picture of the fetus, under a bill that passed the state House Wednesday, largely along party lines.

Study: Single gene variant affects nicotine dependence

Posted on April 03, 2008
Today scientists from deCODE genetics and their colleagues from several universities report in the journal Nature a clear link between a single-letter variant in the sequence of the human genome (SNP) and susceptibility to nicotine dependence.

Conservative wins nasty Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Posted on April 03, 2008
A bare-knuckles race is regrettable because it sends the message that courts are political prizes rather deliberative institutions responsible for objective justice, but they have, in fact, become political prizes . . .

Ted Turner world has too many people

Posted on April 03, 2008
One way to combat global warming, Turner said, is to stabilize the population.

Wesley J. Smith: Drive toward eugenics returns with a vengeance

Posted on April 03, 2008
. . . With the development of prenatal genetic diagnosis, the drive toward eugenics has returned with a vengeance.

Blair urges bigger role for faith

Posted on April 03, 2008
n his first speech since converting to Catholicism, Mr Blair warned against extremism but said the world would be poorer without a "spiritual dimension".

Drunk Mass. judge urged to withdraw resignation since he is also a crossdresser

Posted on April 03, 2008
The letter-writing campaign illustrates how perspectives have changed about behavior such as cross-dressing. Twenty years ago, several lawyers acknowledged, it was highly unlikely that the legal community would have rallied around a judge who was arrested under circumstances like those in the Somma case ...

Secular state as savior and the Islamic state?s dead end

Posted on April 03, 2008
It is obvious to most Western observers and lovers of religious freedom that the Islamic state, in whatever form, poses a grave threat since a common denominator of such states is the required suppression of non-Muslims. Yet, history demonstrates that a "secular state" also comes in many forms and has often been a virulent oppressor of religious freedom.

Western contraception, eugenics, and abortion may be Islam?s only hope: 667 Muslims convert to Christianity every hour

Posted on April 03, 2008
In every hour, 667 Muslims convert to Christianity. Everyday, 16,000 Muslims convert to Christianity. Every year, 6 million Muslims convert to Christianity.

Evangelical Christians See Lower Divorce Rate

Posted on April 03, 2008
Evangelical Christians have a lower divorce rate than the general population, according to a recent study from The Barna Group.

?Clinton Says She Will Defend Gay Rights?

Posted on April 03, 2008
"Clinton said states such as New Jersey and Massachusetts are extending rights to gay couples 'and the federal government should recognize that and should extend the same access to federal benefits across the board. I will very much work to achieve that...

Dr Chapman: ?Modern heterosexual marriages have no historical precedent: only in the last 50 years have they become common?

Posted on April 03, 2008
The Opine Editorials blog reports on the ongoing marriage debate between Glen Stanton of Focus on the Family and Dr. Patrick M. Chapman. Share This

Extremist Muslims Have Infiltrated Higher Ed vis-a-vis Islamic funding

Posted on April 03, 2008
Islamic funding has: "has created a systemic change that created one or two generations of analysts and experts who impact decision-makers who did not see the threat coming because they were under the influence of the money."

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