Religion & Law

China to tighten control on inflows of overseas funds

Posted on November 09, 2010
Bloomberg: "China will force banks to hold more foreign exchange and strengthen auditing of overseas fund raising, stepping up efforts to curb hot-money inflows that may inflate asset bubbles and add pressure for a stronger yuan."

National Cancer Institute should tell women of abortion-breast cancer link

Posted on November 09, 2010
LifeNews: "In the last 18 months alone, five studies have demonstrated an increased risk of breast cancer following abortion. One of those studies, co-authored by Louise Briton, a NCI branch chief, found a statistically significant 40 percent increased risk of breast cancer following abortion...

Minn. judge refuses to dismiss assisted suicide case

Posted on November 09, 2010
CBS: "His attorney had asked that the case be dismissed, saying Melchert-Dinkel's conversations involved protected speech. Rice County District Judge Thomas Neuville disagreed in a 21-page ruling, saying speech that aids the suicide of another is not protected by the First Amendment...

Woman gives birth to homosexual son?s baby

Posted on November 09, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "A fifty-year-old Mexican woman has given birth to a child whose biological father is her homosexual son, according to the Mexico City newspaper Reforma."

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Phyllis Schlafly: Judges get their comeuppance

Posted on November 09, 2010
Phyllis Schlafly writing at Townhall: "The most important decision the voters made on Nov. 2 may turn out to be Iowa sending out to pasture three state supreme court judges who had voted to make same-sex marriage constitutional, overriding the wishes of the people in Iowa and their elected representatives...

Two more Christians killed in Iraq; massacre-site church re-opens

Posted on November 09, 2010
Fides: "The liturgy is once again being said at the Syrian Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad, after the massacre of Christians on October 31, but there is fear among the faithful. Local sources report that two Christians were killed yesterday in Baghdad, in situations investigators have yet to be identify...

Same-sex ?marriage? not likely in Maine

Posted on November 09, 2010
OneNewsNow: "In the aftermath of last week's midterm elections, a pro-family communication and fund-raising advisor says there appears to be little chance for homosexual marriage to pass in Maine's legislature."

Supreme Court to hear argument on the citizenship rights of non-marital children, part 2

Posted on November 09, 2010
Joanna L. Grossman writing at FindLaw: "One aspect of Nguyen that might help Ruben Flores-Villar -- the individual whose fate is at issue in the case the Court will soon consider -- is that, in Nguyen, the Court did at least purport to apply the heightened scrutiny appropriate for sex-based classifications, rather than a special, weaker standard potentially justified by the naturalization context...

Kagan may decide ObamaCare despite admin role

Posted on November 09, 2010
LifeNews: "Though Kagan has been called upon to recuse herself in what is expected to eventually be one of the more monumental decisions of the Supreme Court, she participated in a case on Monday that is a precursor to the coming battle."

Muslim accommodation makes waves at George Washington University

Posted on November 09, 2010
Inside Higher Ed: "At the request of the university?s Muslim Students? Association, George Washington began offering a once-weekly, female-only swim hour in March. But it only recently turned into an online debate over issues of religious and sexual discrimination and -- though not always explicitly -- racism, spurred by an article in the student newspaper, The GW Hatchet...

WSJ: Palin?s dollar, Zoellick?s gold

Posted on November 09, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "It would be hard to find two more unlikely intellectual comrades than Robert Zoellick, the World Bank technocrat, and Sarah Palin, the populist conservative politician. But in separate interventions yesterday, the pair roiled the global monetary debate in complementary and timely fashion ...

Pat Buchanan: The murderers of Christianity

Posted on November 09, 2010
" . . Are we so wary of offending Muslim sensibilities or inflaming Muslim rage we cannot denounce the pogroms perpetrated against Christians in the name of Allah?"

David French: Money, politics, and same-sex ?marriage?

Posted on November 09, 2010
ADF Attorney David French writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "Over at Prop 8 Trial Tracker, Jeremy Hooper takes issue with my recent post regarding Iowa voters? rejection of three state supreme court justices who invented a state constitutional right to same-sex marriage ...

US Senators resume DADT debate

Posted on November 09, 2010
AFP: "Talks have resumed in the US Senate on lifting a ban on gays serving openly in the military although chances of repeal this year appeared slim, legislative officials said Monday."

American Legion: Listen to USMC warnings about lifting DADT

Posted on November 09, 2010
"The American Legion has called on Congress, the president and the Pentagon to carefully consider the concerns voiced by the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps regarding the lifting of the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy on homosexuals."

McCain fights White House on DADT

Posted on November 09, 2010
Washington Post: "The Obama administration reiterated its support Monday for repealing the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) worked to strip language repealing the ban from the annual defense authorization bill."

Cantor, Republicans signal Obama tax proposal is dead in the water

Posted on November 09, 2010
The Hill: "House GOP Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) threw cold water on the proposed plan, which would temporarily extend tax cuts for the wealthy while permanently extending tax cuts for the middle class. 'Taxes shouldn't be going up on anybody right now,' Cantor said...

Tony Blair: Making Muslim integration work

Posted on November 09, 2010
Tony Blair writing in the Wall Street Journal (full text via Google News): "Most people instinctively understand the right approach to integration. We just have to articulate and enforce it. This approach is to distinguish clearly and carefully between the common space, shared by all citizens, and the space where we can be different ...

The ACLU stands up for pro-lifers?really

Posted on November 09, 2010
Wall Street Journal (full text via Google News): "It's not every day these columns praise the American Civil Liberties Union. Even less often will you find the ACLU standing up for pro-lifers. That, however, is exactly what's happening in Ohio?and it tells us a great deal about threats to conviction and free speech in modern American politics...

WSJ: Union card checkmate

Posted on November 09, 2010
Wall Street Journal (full text via Google News): "Americans want workers to be able to join a union if they freely choose one, but only when they are organized through honest, democratic elections. Republicans should be able to block card check legislation in the lame duck and the 112th Congress, but states can protect their economies from the NLRB with initiatives like those that passed last week...

Leader says Oklahoma?s Muslim community is feeling backlash from Sharia law amendment

Posted on November 09, 2010
The Oklahoman: "Hate mail was sent to mosques across the state before and after voters passed a measure prohibiting Oklahoma courts from considering Sharia law when making decisions . . . 'We have seen a steady increase of hate in our places of worship,' Awad said...

Same sex couple to sue over U.S. marriage law

Posted on November 09, 2010
"Ms. Pedersen and Ms. Meitzen plan to file a lawsuit Tuesday against the government in an effort to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that prohibits the federal government from recognizing marriages of same-sex couples."

Philadelphia Inquirer: Targeting judges

Posted on November 09, 2010
The Philadelphia Inquirer: "Even though the justices' critics may have celebrated the outcome as a victory for democracy, the Iowa majority actually delivered a body blow to a vital tenet of a free society: That's the concept of an independent judiciary, where judges issue rulings based upon their best understanding of the law, not public opinion...

New York Times: A blow to the courts

Posted on November 09, 2010
New York Times Editorial: "This year?s campaign is one more reminder of why the 39 states that hold judicial elections should scrap them in favor of merit screening and appointment of judges for a long fixed term."

How did elections affect Pa. ?merit selection? battle?

Posted on November 09, 2010
Howard Bashman writing in The Legal Intelligencer [PDF]: "If the public at large is unqualified to evaluate the performance of appellate judges, and if appellate judges should be entirely unconcerned about the public's reaction to rulings that a judge believes are compelled by the law, then it makes little to no sense to allow judicial elections or retention votes...

Thomas Sowell: Stopping judicial imperialism

Posted on November 09, 2010
Thomas Sowell writing at National Review Online: "The runaway arrogance that politicians get when they have huge majorities in Congress is more or less common among federal judges with lifetime tenure or state judges who are seldom defeated in elections to confirm their appointments to the bench ...

?Republican activists in Congress choke courts?

Posted on November 09, 2010
Bloomberg: "Pushing the judiciary rightward has been a staple of Republican campaigns for decades. Part of the strategy, used by both parties, is to block judicial candidates named by a president of the opposite party. This became easier last week for Republicans, who were already doing quite well at it...

Cert. filed in Seventh Day Adventist case: Does RFRA apply to suits between private parties?

Posted on November 09, 2010
Religion Clause: "A petition for certiorari (full text) was filed yesterday with the U.S. Supreme Court in McGill v. General Conference Corporation of Seventh Day Adventists . . . "

Some Democrats tell Pelosi: Take a hike

Posted on November 09, 2010
LifeNews: "Despite losing control of the House in the elections, pro-abortion Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to remain as the leader of the Democratic Party. But some Democrats, in a new letter, are telling her to take a hike."

Supreme Court: Health care case denied

Posted on November 09, 2010
Lyle Denniston reports at SCOTUSblog: "The Supreme Court on Monday turned aside the first attempt to pursue in the Court a constitutional challenge to the new federal health care law. The initial test sought to draw the Justices into the nationwide controversy over the law, before any federal appeals court has ruled on it...

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