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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Freedom from Religion Foundation demands Mich. city remove God reference

Posted on February 18, 2008
Keith Essenburg reports in the Grand Rapids Press (2.18.2008): “A complaint from a Wisconsin organization that champions the separation of church and state has Mayor Don VanDoeselaar saying he will ask for legal advice on whether Hudsonville should remove a reference to city officials striving “to serve God” from its Web site...

Daily Law Review Watch - February 18th

Posted on February 18, 2008
Religious Freedom The Ever-expanding Health Care Conscience Clause: The Quest for Immunity in the Struggle between Professional Duties and Moral Beliefs Maxine M. Harrington, 34 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 779 (2007) This Article addresses the tension between the legal duties of health care providers to their patients and the right of those providers to refuse care on [...

Religion as a factor in child custody cases, battle heats up

Posted on February 18, 2008
Eugene Volokh comments on the Volokh Conspiracy blog on a recent child custody ruling by a Michigan Court of Appeals, Kik v. Kik, 2008 WL 376404 (Mich. App. Feb. 12). Volokh comments: Let’s set aside the broader First Amendment questions on when a court may treat a parent worse because that parent’s speech (religious or [...

Commentary on the 5th Circuit ruling striking Texas sex toy ban

Posted on February 18, 2008
Ilya Somin has this short commentary on the Volokh Conspiracy blog (2.17.2008): "I think that the court was right to conclude that the sex toy ban is unconstitutional under the Supreme Court’s decisions in Lawrence v. Texas (which invalidated laws banning both homosexual and heterosexual sodomy), and Griswold v...

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Justice Stephen Breyer, Interventionist

Posted on February 18, 2008
A review of Justice Breyer’s 2005 book, Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution, by Cory L. Andrews in the First Principles Journal. An excerpt: Active Liberty is a brazen call for judicial intervention, and the thoughtful reader will recognize after only a moment?s reflection that Breyer is a snake-oil salesman peddling his own ?enlightened? policy preferences...

Media calls on President to nominate "moderates"

Posted on February 18, 2008
The editorials come after ADF joined with many other groups to call on the Senate to move nominations forward.

Dems kill Indiana Marriage Amendment

Posted on February 18, 2008
"Speaker Pat Bauer and his leadership team killed this measure in 2004, they killed it in 2007, and now they're killing it in 2008."

Minnesota cloning bill forces taxpayers to fund killing

Posted on February 18, 2008
"A Minnesota House committee passed a bill Thursday that approves human cloning and the killing of human embryos at the University of Minnesota."

LA Times: Removal of Gene R. Nichol and the Culture War

Posted on February 18, 2008
The dispute underscores the deep divide over the role of religion in public institutions, and shows how an ideological firestorm can be sparked on a college campus

Massachusetts Buffer zone change debated

Posted on February 18, 2008
Bronislaus B. Kush reports on the Worcester Telegram (2.18.2008) that the legislature is considering changes to its new law in the wake of an ADF suit: A line drawn across the asphalt, however, warned them not to get within 35 feet of the reproductive health center’s entrance without risking arrest, effectively blunting any attempt to talk [...

Americans Embrace Alternatives to a Conventional Church Experience

Posted on February 18, 2008
The Barna Groups reports (2.18.2008): For decades, American Christians, who comprise more than four of our every five adults, assumed they had one legitimate way to practice their faith: through involvement in a conventional church. But new research shows that this mind set is no longer prevalent in the U...

Creation of Embryonic-Like Stem Cells Moves Forward

Posted on February 17, 2008
LifeNews reports (2.17.2008): The new direct reprogramming method of turning skin or other types of cells into those that have embryonic-like properties has overcome more hurdles. Professor Shinya Yamanaka announced this weekend that his team has found a way to grow the [...

?Report Finds Problems With NJ Gay Unions?

Posted on February 17, 2008
Geoff Mulvhill reports on the AP (2.16.2008): A commission established to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey has found in its first report that civil unions create a “second-class status” for gay couples, rather than giving them equality...

?Personifying? the unborn ? be careful with tactics

Posted on February 17, 2008
By Tony Sifert There is a basic problem with this pro-life commentary from Godspy: personification implies that something which is not a person is re-imagined as a person; in this case a fetus is said to have the human attribute, pain, which can then become a decisive factor in determining whether or not abortion is (a) [...

Campaign to display religious motto sees some success

Posted on February 16, 2008
Nonprofit group has placed "In God We Trust" in public buildings. Opponents say such displays are unconstitutional and discriminatory.

Philly?s War on the Boy Scouts and Media Cover-up

Posted on February 16, 2008
As Michael Nutter was sworn in as the city's 98th mayor last month, he called for a new wave of public service to clean up drug-infested neighborhoods. If he is serious about renewing volunteerism, he'll start by putting an end to the city's campaign against the Boy Scouts.

ADF agrees with Idaho A.G.: Moscow domestic partnerships violate state constitution

Posted on February 16, 2008
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund say that an opinion released by the Idaho attorney general correctly finds that the city of Moscow?s domestic partnership resolution violates the state?s constitutional amendment affirming marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

Disabled Teenager Javona Peters, New York?s Terri Schiavo, Passes Away

Posted on February 15, 2008
Life News reports: "Javona Peters was considered by some to be New York’s Terri Schiavo — a disabled, comatose girl whose family was divided over her medical fate. Peters, who fell into a coma in October while she had a routine medical procedure at Montefiore Medical Center, recently passed away ...

"In God We Trust" License Plates Proposed In 4 States

Posted on February 15, 2008
Religion Clause blog reports on action in 4 states: Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Share This

Missouri debates religious freedom constitutional amendment

Posted on February 15, 2008
The Religion Clause blog reports: "Yesterday, the Missouri House of Representatives debated HJR 55, a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would add 300 words spelling out free exercise and establishment clause rights more explicitly...

CT Churches Targeted By Pro Same-Sex ?Marriage? Millionaire

Posted on February 15, 2008
"Love Makes a Family, the state?s marriage equality organization, has a new job opening for a religious-organizing project coordinator. The position, funded by a grant from the Gill Foundation, a Colorado-based human rights organization . . ."

New Net Neutrality Bill

Posted on February 15, 2008
. . . it is the policy of the United States to, among other things, "maintain the freedom to use for lawful purposes broadband telecommunications networks . . .

Senate Considers Bill to Provide Support to Babies with Disabilities

Posted on February 15, 2008
Citizen Link reports on The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act (S. 1810). "The bill, sponsored by Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., also would supply families — prenatally and up to a year after birth — with a connection to support services and networks that can offer assistance...

Douglas W. Kmiec: "Reaganites for Obama: Barack Obama is a natural for the Catholic vote."

Posted on February 15, 2008
"John McCain will have many Catholics in the pews a little while longer, but more than a few of us are thinking of giving him up for Lent."

Pope, Bush to meet at White House to discuss religious freedom

Posted on February 15, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI will meet President George W. Bush for talks on promoting religious liberty and advancing Middle East peace. . .

Marry-land Tackles Same-Sex Question

Posted on February 15, 2008
Society gives benefits to marriage because of these benefits which marriage gives to society.

World Congress of Families Praises Romanian Senate?s Support for Traditional Marriage

Posted on February 15, 2008
World Congress of Families International Secretary Allan C. Carlson praised the Romanian Senate for recently passing an amendment to the nation?s Family Code defining marriage as the ?union freely consented to between a man and a woman.?