Religion & Law

AZ Bill Blocking Domestic Partner Benefits Fails

Posted on March 19, 2008
The Senate voted 16-14 against the bill after the sponsor switched her vote to position herself to ask for a future re-vote.

UK: Sleepy Cornish village kept awake by Muslim 5am call to prayer

Posted on March 19, 2008
Residents living in a sleepy Cornish village say they face a rude awakening every day because hundreds of Muslims are using a loudspeaker system to broadcast the call to prayer.

First Things: Homeschoolers and the Law in the Golden State

Posted on March 19, 2008
Joseph M. Knippenberg has this analysis of the recent California homeschooling decision on First Things. Share This

SD becomes 12th state to require women be offered ultra-sound

Posted on March 19, 2008
"South Dakota is the twelfth state to require that woman seeking an abortion be offered the chance to view an ultra-sound image of her child inside."

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Which law schools produce the most new law professors?

Posted on March 19, 2008
Brian Leitners Law School Reports provides some data for those who aspire to become law professors. Share This

Study: Iran Indoctrinating Children in Islamic Supremacism

Posted on March 19, 2008
"A new Freedom House study of Iranian textbooks finds that the Islamic Republic is teaching its children to embrace Islamic supremacism, preparing them to enter a political system that discriminates against women and non-Muslims . . . "

MO: Attorney says adult store owner has grounds to sue county

Posted on March 19, 2008
"The attorney for a planned adult video store in Jasper County, Missouri calls on commissioners to grant his client a business license . . . "

Ohio strip club?s plan to rebuild faces opposition

Posted on March 19, 2008
The owner has submitted a request for a zoning variance to allow the club to reopen. Now neighborhood groups are rallying to keep that from happening . . .

WI law forces hospitals to offer ?emergency contraception?

Posted on March 19, 2008
Gov. Jim Doyle signed a long awaited bill Thursday that requires hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims.

ACLJ: Supreme Court Conference Set for Ten Commandments Cases

Posted on March 19, 2008
We just received word that the Supreme Court will be considering both of our Supreme Court cases involving Ten Commandments displays on March 28.

Tiller Admits Performing Abortions a Day before Due Date

Posted on March 19, 2008
Notorious partial-birth abortion specialist Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, KS, was caught on hidden video admitting to aborting babies a day before the mother's due date.

Roy Moore: When preaching becomes a crime

Posted on March 19, 2008
Unfortunately, since the tyranny of the Roman Caesars to today's oppression by the Chinese Communists, not much has changed as those in power seek to silence Christians for performing their duty to the Creator God.

The Ideal of the Rule of Law

Posted on March 19, 2008
I argue that the ideal of the rule of law is based on the thesis that it is good, morally speaking, to be governed by law. I present a structured argument in support of this thesis, which is not based on any controversial assumptions about the nature of law.

The trend to sever family rights from family status

Posted on March 19, 2008
This article explores the constitutional reasons for and the constitutional implications of the current trend to sever family rights from family status.

GA case shows local communities need to be prepared for sexually oriented businesses

Posted on March 19, 2008
?The message in this story is that it pays to be prepared,? said Pat Trueman, special counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. ?The city, not the strip club, is in the driver?s seat because it had the foresight to pass a sexually oriented business ordinance...

1st and 14th Amend. protection of corporate religious speech

Posted on March 19, 2008
Should corporate religious expression receive protection under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and under the First Amendment's Speech Clause?

Christians? role in government explored

Posted on March 19, 2008
Land, noting in his remarks that all of the First Amendment's restrictions are on the government, outlined three approaches to church-state relations: avoidance, acknowledgement and accommodation . . .

SD school district reverses course on pro-life facility use

Posted on March 19, 2008
A South Dakota school district has backed down in the face of a lawsuit by a pro-life group that contends it refused access to its buildings for events.

U.S. Supreme Court questions restrictions on speech against unions

Posted on March 19, 2008
Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether a state should be able to prohibit employers from using state money to influence employees' views on unions in their workplace.

MO: Jasper County measure targets more adult businesses

Posted on March 19, 2008
The Joplin Globe reports: The Jasper County Commission on Thursday will consider another ordinance ? this one aimed at adult video and bookstores ? to regulate sexually oriented businesses in the county. The new measure was being circulated Tuesday in advance of the Thursday session...

Thomas More Law Ctr. to represent Oklahoma legislator targeted by radical homosexuals

Posted on March 19, 2008
Representative Sally Kern has received over 27,000 vulgar, hate filled e-mails, her life has been threatened, her son falsely accused of being a homosexual, her financial supporters contacted and asked to no longer support her, and a leading homosexual activist entered her husband?s church last Sunday and took notes on her husband?s sermon ...

UK: Bangladesh sharia wedding ?illegal?

Posted on March 19, 2008
The 26-year-old British bridegroom had the mental capacity of a three-year-old and could not consent to the marriage, the court decided.

FL: Weston Senator Wants To End Homosexual Adoption Ban

Posted on March 19, 2008
Under Rich's bill, gay foster parents would be allowed to adopt children if a judge rules it's in the child's best interest. Also, a gay adult would be considered a potential adoptive parent if he or she were the legal guardian of the child whose parents had died.

Court rejects California?s challenge to healthcare conscience rights

Posted on March 19, 2008
California challenged the Weldon amendment shortly after Congress approved it but the federal judge said it was premature.

Kansas sperm donor appeals paternity denial to U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on March 19, 2008
The Kansas court ruled 4-2 last fall that a sperm donor who wants to have parental rights with any subsequent children must have a written agreement with the mother.

Born ?gay?? Is the American Psychological Association changing its view?

Posted on March 19, 2008
"Instead of its usual born gay viewpoint, the new guide acknowledges no scientific consensus about why someone is homosexual."

NC: School board opens door to homosexual indoctrination

Posted on March 19, 2008
To the contrary, anti-bullying policies are largely the brainchild of GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, whose mission is to assure that all students are "valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression...

Observers: Albany?s culture friendly to infidelity

Posted on March 19, 2008
Michael Amon reports at NewsDay: New York’s capital may look buttoned-down, but former legislative aides and lawmakers say Albany provides an accommodating culture for marital infidelities like those acknowledged by Gov. David A. Paterson on Monday...

Controversial San Francisco Catholic Charities leader retiring

Posted on March 19, 2008
Under Cahill?s leadership, Catholic Charities facilitated five adoptions by homosexual couples between 2000 and 2005. According to a March 9, 2006 e-mail message from Cardinal William Levada, former San Francisco archbishop and current prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cahill had informed Levada of three such adoptions, ?principally to find placements for three children or teenagers who were judged difficult to place...

Louisiana: Parents must wait for tuition break

Posted on March 19, 2008
A new tax break for parents of children in Louisiana private schools and a smaller benefit for parents of public school students won't have an impact on their pocketbooks for at least two years.

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