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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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House OKs proxy marriage in immigration cases

Posted on November 16, 2010
Navy Times: "A bill recognizing proxy marriages involving service members in immigration cases passed the House of Representatives on Monday. The bipartisan legislation is aimed, specifically, at helping the Japanese widow of a Marine killed in Iraq come to the U...

PA: Federal judge must decide whether abortion fliers are litter or litter-ature?

Posted on November 16, 2010
Lebanon Daily News: "A federal judge in Pittsburgh must decide whether abortion leaflets are litter or 'litter'-ature protected by the First Amendment."

Driehaus withdraws complaint over pro-life election billboards

Posted on November 16, 2010
The Hill: "Defeated Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio) has withdrawn his complaint against the anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List for claiming that he 'voted for taxpayer-funded abortion.'"

Canada: Carleton University Student Association seeks to ban pro-life groups

Posted on November 16, 2010
National Post: "The student association at Carleton University has decided that any club that is opposed to abortion has no place on campus and would have its funding as a student club cut off. On Monday, Carleton Lifeline, an anti-abortion group, was told by CUSA, the Carleton University Student Association, that it was in violation of CUSA?s anti-discrimination policy...

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Dutch journalist threatened with torture, death following letter condemning abortion

Posted on November 16, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Pro-life journalist Mariska Orb�n de Haas says that she has received hundreds of death threats and more than ten threats of torture following the publication of an open letter she wrote to a pro-abortion parliamentarian asking her to reconsider her position on the subject...

Russian Orthodox Church declines Catholics? claims for former Catholic church in Kaliningrad

Posted on November 16, 2010
Interfax: "The Moscow Patriarchate urges Catholics to give an unbiased opinion of transferring the former Catholic Church to the Russian Orthodox Church . . . 'It should be remembered that the legal owners of Holy Family Church have left the city for good when it was included within the USSR...

Russian specialist denied attendance at European Parliament hearings on religious freedom in Russia

Posted on November 16, 2010
Interfax: "The organizers of the European Parliament hearings on religious freedom in Russia have not allowed President of the Russian Association of Centers for Religious and Sectarian Studies and prominent Orthodox authority in present-day religious sects Alexander Dvorkin to attend the hearings on Monday, the Russian specialist told Interfax...

Plastic pig banned from UK toy set for fear of offending Jews, Muslims

Posted on November 16, 2010
Herald Sun: "Toy shop bosses removed a plastic pig from a children's toy farm set because they feared it would upset Muslim and Jewish parents. A mother who complained to toy store Early Learning Centre (ELC) when she found the pig missing was told it had been removed for 'religious reasons,' British newspaper The Sun reported...

Lithuanian Parliament narrowly defeats controversial homosexuality law

Posted on November 16, 2010
Baltic Times: "Lithuanian parliament defeated by just two votes a controversial law that would have banned pride parades and, in the words of one MEP, 'effectively made homosexuality illegal.'"

Armenian Apostolic Church will not get status in Georgia

Posted on November 16, 2010
Armenia News: "Armenian Apostolic Church will not get status in Georgia. 'We will not give status to Etchmiadzin,' Yelena Tevdoradze, Georgian Deputy Minister of Reintegration, said in the course of 'Armenian society in Tbilisi: problems and prospects' conference...

Welsh primary schools will not be forced to teach sex ed

Posted on November 16, 2010
The Christian Institute: "The Welsh Assembly has announced that primary schools in Wales will not be forced to teach sex and relationship education (SRE) if they don?t want to. But the Welsh Assembly Government is set to inject yet more funding into its controversial sexual health programme...

Christian jailed in Afghanistan to face judge on Sunday

Posted on November 16, 2010
Charisma Mag: "Imprisoned since May, father of six has yet to learn charges against him. An Afghani amputee in prison for his Christian faith since May will face a judge this Sunday (Nov. 21) without legal representation or knowledge of the charges against him, according to local sources...

Closing arguments in TN mosque trial begin Wednesday

Posted on November 16, 2010
Murfreesboro Post: "Both sides in a long battle over the construction of a mosque near Murfreesboro wrapped up their case Monday and will make closing arguments Wednesday."

Peruvian bishop blasts proposal to lower sexual consent age to 14

Posted on November 16, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "The president of the Peruvian bishops' committee on the family has warned the country's Congress that lowering the age of sexual consent will turn Peru into a 'sexual paradise' for tourists interested in child prostitution. The Peruvian Congress is currently debating a measure that would lower the legal age of sexual consent from 18 to 14 years old...

Video: Rep. Mike Pence on bill to require Fed to focus solely on inflation

Posted on November 16, 2010
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Kyl deals blow to President on arms treaty

Posted on November 16, 2010
New York Times / The Caucus: "Mr. Obama had declared ratification of the New Start treaty his 'top priority' in foreign affairs for the lame-duck session of Congress that opened this week. But the chances of winning the two-thirds vote required for passage of the treaty appeared to collapse with the announcement by Jon Kyl of Arizona, the No...

TSA porno scanners not making sense? Follow the money

Posted on November 16, 2010
Timothy P. Carney writing at The Washington Examiner: "The degradations of passing through full-body scanners that provide naked pictures of you to Transportation Security Administration agents may not mean that the terrorists have won -- but they do mark victories for a few politically connected high-tech companies and their revolving-door lobbyists...

Is the Palestinian Authority becoming an Islamic theocracy?

Posted on November 16, 2010
Khaled Abu Toameh writing at Hudson New York: "Those who fund the Palestinian Authority must put pressure on its leaders to respect freedom of speech and refrain from imposing Islamic Sharia laws in the West Bank. Otherwise, it will be only a matter of time before Palestinians in the West Bank are beheaded or have their hands amputated or are stoned to death for adultery and theft...

TX: Vote watchers fight back against Dem lawsuit with Soros links

Posted on November 16, 2010
WorldNetDaily: "The situation in Houston erupted after workers with a volunteer organization called True the Vote investigated the work of a Houston Votes group and found that of the 25,000 voter registrations submitted, only 7,193 apparently were actually valid...

Islamic practices being debated in Europe

Posted on November 16, 2010
OneNewsNow: "A bestselling author and terrorism expert thinks Germany's proposal to outlaw forced Islamic marriages is another sign that Europe is beginning to clamp down on the religion's controversial practices."

Rep. Joseph Cao calls Christian group ?ignorant? for costing him election

Posted on November 16, 2010
Politics Daily: "'I also wanted to send a very clear message to Republicans across the country; if you take a stand against the family, we will take a stand against you,' Perkins said. 'These squishy Republicans need to know that we will come after them, just like the Democrats...

CA: Kolakowski is first ?transgender? elected judge

Posted on November 16, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: "Victoria Kolakowski declared victory Monday in a tightly contested race for Alameda County Superior Court, making her what is believed to be the nation's first transgender judge."

Deval Patrick to push for in-state tuition for illegals

Posted on November 16, 2010
Boston Herald: "Gov. Deval Patrick says he?ll use his second term to try to implement the rest of an advisory panel?s recent recommendations on immigration reform, including in-state tuition for illegal immigrant students and more English classes."

The limits of the American Founding: What our political fathers didn?t teach us

Posted on November 16, 2010
Peter Augustine Lawler, Ph.D. writing at The Family in America: "That our principles are primarily Lockean is not all good or all bad, but it is a problem that should receive scrutiny from conservatives in a friendly and loyal but nonetheless real criticism of the Founders as theorists ...

?DOMA taking more hits?

Posted on November 16, 2010
Edge Boston: "The Defense of Marriage Act faced a two-pronged attack on Nov. 9 as two separate organizations and sets of lawyers, representing different plaintiffs, filed lawsuits in federal court challenging the federal definition of marriage."

House ethics panel convicts Rep. Rangel on 11 of 13 counts

Posted on November 16, 2010
The Hill: "A House ethics panel has convicted Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on 11 of 13 counts of violating House ethics rules . . . "

Australia: Same-sex ?marriage? hurts kids

Posted on November 16, 2010
David van Gend writing in The Courier-Mail: "The most serious objection to gay marriage is that it means gay parenting, and gay parenting means depriving a child of either his mother or his father. The gay marriage debate, at its heart, is not about the rights and needs of the adults, but of the child...

Australia: Government backs Greens motion on same-sex ?marriage? canvassing

Posted on November 16, 2010
Daily Telegraph: "The Government will support a Greens motion on gay marriage which calls on all MPs to canvass the issue with their constituents. However, it has forced an amendment to the motion which won't leave MPs voting in conflict with Labor's policy which opposes gay marriage...

Columbia?s Constitutional Court upholds marriage

Posted on November 16, 2010
"The court said Montoya?s arguments that the traditional definition of marriage violates the right to equality, as well as the right to not be treated cruelly, were insufficient."

Rare veto override votes hit Fla. today includes abortion legislation

Posted on November 16, 2010
NewsChief.com (AP): "None, though, will be as contentious as an abortion bill that was one of two vetoed measures the Legislature last overrode on March 11, 1998. Nor will the Legislature consider hot-button bills on teacher merit pay and retention, elections and abortion that Crist vetoed...

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