Religion & Law

Smeaton to int?l conference: Pro-lifers must challenge Vatican to appoint pro-life bishops

Posted on November 01, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Pro-life advocates should call on the Vatican to appoint bishops who will teach and defend the Church's teaching on the transmission of human life, pro-life veteran John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), told the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa on Friday...

ObamaCare may include free contraception

Posted on November 01, 2010
OneNewsNow: "A major push is under way to have free contraception included under ObamaCare. A panel of experts advising the government meets in November to begin considering what kind of preventive care for women should be covered at no cost to the patient, as required under President Barack Obama's overhaul...

Military survey avoids key question

Posted on November 01, 2010
OneNewsNow: "A national defense analyst and Pentagon advisor doesn't think a leaked Pentagon survey is accurate in saying a majority of active duty and reserve service members wouldn't object to serving and living alongside homosexuals in the military service ...

U of I academic leader says review of adjunct professor could serve entire campus well

Posted on November 01, 2010
willam 580 Illinois Public Media: "A leading University of Illinois faculty member said it is good to see the Urbana campus initiating a process by which the contracts of faculty will be looked at before being renewed. The review process concerns adjunct faculty member Kenneth Howell ...

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High Court seen snubbing religious-expression cases

Posted on November 01, 2010
Education Week: "[A]t least one conservative constituency largely is still waiting for its day in the high court. Over the past two years alone, self-described religious-liberty groups on the right have asked the justices to hear appeals in some half-dozen cases involving religious expression in the public schools...

Wayne Grudem: Churches should be able to endorse candidates

Posted on November 01, 2010
Caffeinated Thoughts: "I read an op/ed written by Dr. Wayne Grudem who teaches biblical studies and theology at Phoenix Seminary. Prior to that he was at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. I read the op/ed with interest as he rarely enters the political fray...

1,000 rabbis join Vatican Cardinal in prohibiting voting for anti-life candidates

Posted on November 01, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America, which represents more than 1000 Rabbis, has on behalf of his organization welcomed and endorsed the recent election-themed statements by American Cardinal-designate, Raymond L...

Scott Rasmussen: A vote against Dems, not for the GOP

Posted on November 01, 2010
Scott Rasmussen writing in The Wall Street Journal: "This isn't a wave, it's a tidal shift?and we've seen it coming for a long time. Remarkably, there have been plenty of warning signs over the past two years, but Democratic leaders ignored them. At least the captain of the Titanic tried to miss the iceberg...

?Ark. school board member quits after anti-gay rant?

Posted on November 01, 2010
Associated Press: "An Arkansas school board member who said on Facebook that he wanted homosexual students to kill themselves has resigned from the panel."

Arizona tax-credit case a test of church vs. state

Posted on November 01, 2010
Arizona Republic: "A case to be argued Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court could settle once and for all the legal bounds of Arizona's private-school tuition tax-credit program . . . The right-to-sue issue is more likely to be the main focus of attention for the justices because the Supreme Court already has endorsed a private-school voucher program, in Cleveland, that allows parents to spend state money on private religious or secular schools...

Mike Adams: Up from multiculturalism

Posted on November 01, 2010
Mike Adams writing at Townhall: "[German Chancellor Angela Merkel] had the guts to say that Germany's recent drift towards multiculturalism has been an unmitigated disaster. And she went one step further calling on their immigrants to learn German and adopt Christian values ...

Egypt cancels licenses for TV satellite uplinks

Posted on November 01, 2010
Associated Press: "Egypt has revoked licenses for satellite television uplinks, the latest in an intensified crackdown on the media ahead of the country's crucial parliamentary elections later this month."

Kids? book prizes to include ?gay and lesbian? award

Posted on November 01, 2010
Associated Press: "An award for gay and lesbian literature will be included in the American Library Association's annual announcement of children's prizes, a list which features the prestigious and influential Caldecott and Newbery medals."

Dems see hope for regaining Alaska Senate seat

Posted on November 01, 2010
Associated Press: "Democrats believe they can secure their first all-Democratic Senate delegation from Alaska in more than 40 years, with their once-overlooked nominee making a late charge and claiming the momentum is in his favor in a heated three-way contest...

IN: Crime to surreptitiously videotape one?s fiancee naked?

Posted on November 01, 2010
Chiszar v. Indiana, No. No. 91A04-1004-CR-290 (Ind. App. Oct. 29, 2010) "It is the nature of the looking that is at issue here. The 'looking' that is proscribed under the statute is 'any looking of a clandestine, surreptitious, prying, or secretive nature...

LifeNews Prediction: Republicans will pick up 9 seats in Senate for 50-50 split

Posted on November 01, 2010
LifeNews: "LifeNews.com is today predicting that Republicans will pick up nine seats in the Senate for a 50-50 split of the upper chamber of Congress. Based on poling data, polling trends and the movement and momentum in the closing week of the campaigns, it appears the Senate will have a historic tie, which pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden will be able to break...

Planned Parenthood abortion business settles Medicaid fraud case

Posted on November 01, 2010
LifeNews: "The state of Washington and the Planned Parenthood of the Inland Northwest have agreed on a settlement in a Medicaid fraud case that saw the abortion business routinely overcharge the state government. Initial audits from Washington state officials showed Planned Parenthood wrongly overbilled the state $629,143 over a three-year period, according to the Associated Press...

Obama admin: No patent on human genes

Posted on November 01, 2010
Lyle Denniston writing at SCOTUSblog: "Drawing a sharp distinction between 'nature?s handiwork' and human invention, the Obama Administration has urged a federal appeals court to rule that no U.S. patent can be issued to give sole rights to a natural gene taken out of the body and used for medical research...

UK: Parents who live in fear of attacks from their children

Posted on November 01, 2010
Daily Mail: "An increasing number of parents are being attacked by their children, a disturbing report reveals. Researchers warn that they are being subjected to physical violence, intimidation and aggression that goes far beyond normal rows and child development problems...

U.K. High Court to decide whether Christian couple can foster

Posted on November 01, 2010
"Eunice and Owen Johns, a Christian couple from Derby, have been trying to foster for three years. In 2007 Derby City Council withdrew the Johns' application to be foster parents because of their biblical views on marriage and the family . . . "

Arizona to make case for immigration law at 9th Circuit

Posted on November 01, 2010
Arizona Daily Star: "Three federal judges will hear arguments today by attorneys for the governor on why Arizona should be allowed to start enforcing SB 1070 . . . Technically speaking today's hearing . . . concerns whether U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton acted properly in enjoining the state from enforcing several sections while the case makes its way through the legal system ...

Appoint judges in Nevada? No thanks

Posted on November 01, 2010
Sylvia R. Lazos, Justice Myron Leavitt professor at UNLV's William S. Boyd School of Law, and Chris W. Bonneau, professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh, writing in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "Nevadans are voting on whether to amend their constitution to provide for the appointment of Supreme Court justices and District Court judges...

9th Circuit continues stay and casts doubt on lower court?s DADT order

Posted on November 01, 2010
A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the U.S. government's request for a stay while it challenges the trial court's ruling that the ban on openly gay service members is unconstitutional.

Pravda: ?Marriage to become prerogative of religious people only??

Posted on November 01, 2010
Pravda: "It is an open secret that the Church recognizes only one form of close relationship between a man and a woman - legal marriage. A growing number of people believes nowadays that tying the knot is not a necessity at all, because two people can love each other and live together without paper formalities...

ACLU: ?United States to undergo first-ever Universal Periodic Review before U.N. Human Rights Council Friday in Geneva?

Posted on November 01, 2010
ACLU Press Release: "The U.S. will undergo the first-ever Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights record before the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday, November 5 in Geneva, Switzerland. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is in Geneva to observe the proceedings and participate in side events, welcomed the U...

Manhattan, KS may charge schools, churches for water: ACLU complains of exemption

Posted on November 01, 2010
Hays Daily News (AP): "The city of Manhattan is considering charging churches and schools for their use of city water after more than 100 years of free service."

Russian Orthodox Church condemns European Court decision on ?gay pride?

Posted on November 01, 2010
Interfax: "Hegumen Filaret, a representative of the Russian Church in Strasbourg, believes the decision made by the European Court, which ordered the authorities to pay compensation for refusing to authorize several gay pride parades, insults the feelings of the majority of Russians...

Vermont Gov. candidate vows to legalize assisted suicide if elected

Posted on November 01, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "The Democratic candidate for governor of Vermont has told a pro-euthanasia lobby group that he would push to decriminalize the actions of those who help others kill themselves."

NJ: Bergen County charter school is denied approval after facing opposition from public school officials

Posted on November 01, 2010
The Star-Ledger: "The New Jersey Department of Education denied approval for the Bergen Regional Charter School, which would have joined three other charter schools in the county operating independently but with taxpayer money. Opponents deemed the charter school unnecessary, claiming the surrounding school districts are not low-performing...

Chuck Colson: ?We must not despair: It?s not the time to withdraw from politics?

Posted on November 01, 2010
Chuck Colson and Catherine Larson writing at Christianity Today: "Who started the divisive culture wars in the first place? Far from being the aggressors?as the press would have us believe?religious conservatives have simply been responding to the relentless secularization of American life ...

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