Religion & Law

MS: Pastors contest lifting Sunday liquor bans

Posted on November 02, 2010
Christian Post: "Religious figures are urging government officials to continue longstanding bans on the Sunday sale of alcohol in stores and restaurants while industry advocates say Bible-belt bans are 'archaic.'"

Muslims in Bangladesh beat, deprive Christians of work

Posted on November 02, 2010
Christian Post: "Muslim villagers last month beat a 63-year-old Christian convert and his youngest son because they refused to return to Islam, the father told Compass."

Curbs on Friday prayers in India is anti-Muslim policy: Islamic body

Posted on November 02, 2010
Kashmir Dispatch: "Mutaheda Majlis-e-Ulema, a body of Islamic scholars and clerics, Monday passed a resolution against the repeated curbs imposed by the government on Friday prayers at the Jamia Masjid and other major mosques during the past four months of unrest, terming it as 'brazen interference in the religious affairs of Muslims'...

Teacher: Calif. district retaliated after Christian materials questioned

Posted on November 02, 2010
Appeal-Democrat: "Confronting officials of the Yuba City Unified School District over their promotion of Christian-based religious materials ? including 'Character Counts' classes ? led to retaliation by the school district, a Jewish teacher says." | Courthouse News Service has posted a copy of the complaint (E...

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New study confirms overwhelming death rate of IVF human embryos

Posted on November 02, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "A report by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) on a study of IVF 'efficiency' states that just 7.5 percent of all artificially fertilized embryos will go on to become live-born children."

Louisiana: Biblical elective sought for Caddo schools

Posted on November 02, 2010
The Town Talk: "Caddo Parish School Board member Barry Rachal wants a Bible-based history elective in Caddo high schools next fall."

UK: Bishops slam equality laws in foster carer ban case

Posted on November 02, 2010
The Christian Institute: "Labour?s controversial equality laws shouldn?t be used to silence people who disagree with homosexual conduct, a group of senior bishops has warned."

Pakistan Ahmadi man forcibly exhumed in Lahore

Posted on November 02, 2010
BBC: "Police in Pakistan have forced a family of the Ahmadi sect to exhume the body of a relative because it was buried in a Muslim graveyard."

Cuba Catholics to open first new seminary in decades

Posted on November 02, 2010
Vancouver Sun: "The Roman Catholic Church will open on Wednesday its first new seminary in Cuba in more than half a century in a further sign of its improving relations with the island's communist-led government."

Artificial insemination allows British women in their 50s to have babies

Posted on November 02, 2010
AHN: "Artificial insemination technology has allowed more British women to become mothers in what is considered already their menopausal years. 107 British women in their 50s had babies in 2009, a 55 percent rise from 2008."

Maryland: Baptist school battle goes to trial

Posted on November 02, 2010
"For the leaders of Riverdale Baptist Church in Upper Marlboro, the county's decision in 2005 and 2006 to pass new zoning legislation that prevented the evangelical congregation from building a private school in Bristol amounted to religious discrimination ...

Will Iowa hold ?rogue? judges accountable?

Posted on November 02, 2010
OneNewsNow: "An Iowa congressman hopes voters in his state will send three of the state's Supreme Court judges to the unemployment line today."

Civil ?rights? gained on the backs of little children

Posted on November 02, 2010
FRCblog: "It is a tragic consequence of the civil 'right' that, unfortunately, Lisa Miller, fought for ? and now has to live in spite of. Only this time, an innocent child suffers at the hands of adults in a political milieu where the innocent loses and no one, especially little Isabella, wins...

Homeownership stays at lowest level in a decade

Posted on November 02, 2010
Boston.com (AP): "The nation's homeownership rate remained at its lowest in more than a decade, hampered by a rise in foreclosures and weak demand for housing."

Law Dean at The Huffington Post: ?When LGBT teens face bullying at home, too?

Posted on November 02, 2010
Darren Rosenblum, Professor at Pace Law School, writing at The Huffington Post: "Recently, President Obama posted an 'It Gets Better' message to teens. The Obama message goes far to encourage LGBT teens to realize that it gets better but fails to speak to the people that really matter in these teens' lives: their parents ...

At odds with the U.S., Pakistan deepens ties with China

Posted on November 02, 2010
TIME: "Declarations of solidarity and the $2 billion in promised military aid received by a high-level Pakistani delegation in Washington last week belie the hardening of U.S. attitudes toward Islamabad . . . "

9th Circuit judge questions Justice Department?s lawsuit against Arizona immigration law

Posted on November 02, 2010
Washington Post: "[Judge John T. Noonan Jr.] took aim at the core of the Justice Department's argument . . .  'I've read your brief, I've read the District Court opinion, I've heard your interchange with my two colleagues, and I don't understand your argument,' Noonan told deputy solicitor general Edwin S...

Phyllis Schlafly: Gov?t trampling on constitutional rights of parents

Posted on November 02, 2010
Phyllis Schlafly writing at Townhall: "A new study casts doubt on the value of CPS. . . The researchers concluded that CPS's intervention did little or nothing to improve the lives of the children . . . Two cases involving Child Protective Services are now before the U...

SC: Nonprofit sets up in school to provide sex ed, birth control

Posted on November 02, 2010
The Sun News: "[A Charleston County mother] said her daughter was taken to the clinic by someone who worked for Carolina Empowerment Group, a nonprofit community organization whose goal is to increase awareness of and prevent teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse...

China aims to chart shifting population

Posted on November 02, 2010
New York Times: "China began tallying its population on Monday for the first time since 2000, an arduous task likely to be made even tougher by the need to count scores of millions of migrant workers in the nation?s big cities."

Justice, denied: A politicized and/or incompetent DOJ?

Posted on November 02, 2010
Quin Hillyer writing at The American Spectator: "Under attorney general Eric Holder, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) is dangerously politicized, radically leftist, racialist, lawless, and at times corrupt. The good news is that it's also often incompetent...

Stanley Fish: Religion and the liberal state once again

Posted on November 02, 2010
Stanley Fish writing at The New York Times / Opinionator: "Liberalism is the name of an enlightenment theory of government characterized by an emphasis on procedural rather than substantive rights: the law protects individual free choice and is not skewed in the direction of some choices or biased against others; the laws framed by the liberal state are, or should be, neutral between competing visions of the good and the good life ...

Iraq?s Christians mourn, bury their dead

Posted on November 02, 2010
Associated Press: "Hundreds of grieving Christians and other Iraqis packed a funeral service Tuesday for members of the faith killed in a militant siege on a Baghdad church. The attack, which an al-Qaida-linked group claimed it carried out, left 58 people dead and dozens wounded...

?Berlusconi: Better to love women than gays?

Posted on November 02, 2010
Associated Press: "Premier Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls Tuesday to resign over his involvement with an underage Moroccan runaway - and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than gays."

Dennis Prager: Why I now vote party, not individual

Posted on November 02, 2010
Dennis Prager writing at Townhall: "For better or for worse, the notion of voting for the candidate rather than the party is now mostly naive idealism. The Democratic Party is now fully left-wing, and is simply the American version of any European Social Democratic party...

The duty to defend our nation?s laws

Posted on November 02, 2010
CitizenLink: "Since President Obama took office in January 2009, his Department of Justice has managed to look like they?re working against the nation?s laws in federal lawsuits challenging two separate federal statutes: the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA); and Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell (DADT)...

BYU conference on the impact of same-sex ?marriage? on public education

Posted on November 02, 2010
Symposium on the Impact of Same Sex Marriage on Public Education: Implications for Schools, Students, their Families, and Educational Communities Marriage & Family Law Research Project, October 29, 2010 General Information | Abstracts | Draft Papers

Election Results and Coverage

Posted on November 02, 2010
This post may be updated Live Election Coverage: Hugh Hewitt on Breitbart.tv Fox News Election Center NY Times Election Results Politico Red State The Hill Live Blog Townhall Election Center Official and Unofficial Sites for Election Results Alabama (AL) (Al...

Tea party favorite Rand Paul wins Senate in Ky.

Posted on November 02, 2010
Associated Press: "Kentucky Republican Rand Paul has been elected to the U.S. Senate, riding tea party support and strong criticism of President Barack Obama to victory."

FFRF mulls appeal of Colorado Day of Prayer loss

Posted on November 02, 2010
FFRF: "Foundation Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor called the decision disappointing and said an appeal is likely. 'No governor has the right to exhort citizens to pray, to set aside an entire day for prayer, much less an entire day for prayer every year...

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