Religion & Law

Hail the American work ethic

Posted on October 28, 2010
Rasmussen Reports: "Americans work. They value work. They respect it . . . An Italian friend (a leftist, actually) once asked me, 'Why do the Rockefellers work?' Because they want to make their mark in society, I responded, to which he shook his head...

What about IVF? The embryo technology that evangelicals don?t oppose

Posted on October 28, 2010
"The director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network in San Francisco, Lahl has become a lone voice for a message that many of her fellow evangelicals are uncomfortable hearing: If embryos are human lives, she argues, then it is time for Christians to be consistent about their moral objections and unite against IVF ...

GA: Employees fired and evicted for being ?too religious? should get day in court

Posted on October 28, 2010
Liberty Counsel: "Today Liberty Counsel will present oral arguments at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, requesting that a trial court?s summary judgment be reversed in an employment and housing discrimination case. Daniel and Sharon Dixon were fired by The Hallmark Companies from managing an apartment complex and evicted from their apartment for being 'too religious,' because they displayed, in the rental office, stained glass artwork with flowers and the phrase 'Consider the lilies...

65% favor getting rid of entire Congress and starting over

Posted on October 28, 2010
Rasmussen Reports: "A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters say if they had the option next week, they would vote to get rid of the entire Congress and start all over again. Only 20% would opt to keep the entire Congress instead...

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Chinese computer trumps US one as world?s fastest

Posted on October 28, 2010
CNBC (NYT): "A Chinese scientific research center has built the fastest supercomputer ever made, replacing the United States as maker of the swiftest machine, and giving China bragging rights as a technology superpower."

Invisible dads: $3.3 billion fertility industry is creating a huge number of fatherless children

Posted on October 28, 2010
"An estimated 30,000-60,000 children are born each year through sperm donation?the product of a $3.3 billion fertility industry that does not have to keep strict records of births, reveal donor names, or regulate the number of children one sperm donor creates...

Shelby Steele: A referendum on the Redeemer

Posted on October 28, 2010
"But there is also a deeper disjunction. There is an 'otherness' about Mr. Obama, the sense that he is somehow not truly American."

Feds arrest N.Va. Islamist in D.C. Metro bomb plot

Posted on October 28, 2010
Washington Post: "Federal law enforcement authorities arrested a Northern Virginia man Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to carry out terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system. Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn conspired with people he thought to be al-Qaeda operatives to bomb the Arlington Cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House stations, according to a federal indictment...

Michael Barone: Public employee unions funnel public money to Dems

Posted on October 28, 2010
Michael Barone writing at Townhall: "Who is the largest single political contributor in the 2010 campaign cycle? . . . The real answer is AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union's president, Gerald McEntee, reports proudly that AFSCME will be contributing $87,500,000 in this cycle, entirely or almost entirely to Democrats...

AZ group accused of massive voter fraud is offshoot of SEIU

Posted on October 28, 2010
Jim Hoft writing at Big Government: "Yesterday, the Yuma Sun reported that two organizations Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona submitted more than 3,000 voter registrations in Yuma County right before the deadline for registering voters. The groups submitted over 20,000 registrations statewide ...

Saudi prince backs moving planned NYC mosque

Posted on October 28, 2010
Associated Press: "A Saudi prince who has aided the imam spearheading a proposed Islamic center near New York's ground zero is appealing for another site not associated with the 'wound' of the Sept. 11 attacks, a report said Thursday."

Thomas Sowell: Forgetting the Constitution

Posted on October 28, 2010
Thomas Sowell writing at National Review Online: "One of the brassiest of the brass oldies is the notion that the Constitution creates a 'wall of separation' between church and state. This false notion has been so widely accepted that people who tell the truth get laughed at and mocked ...

Fiorina released from hospital, will resume campaign Thursday

Posted on October 28, 2010
The Hill: "California GOP Senate nominee Carly Fiorina was released from the hospital Wednesday after a one-night stay related to her battle with cancer. Fiorina was admitted to the hospital Tuesday after she developed an infection resulting from the reconstructive surgery from breast cancer...

Pornography still an ignored social ill

Posted on October 28, 2010
Christian Post: "Pornography is still 'a very serious moral problem' that is being ignored during by the U. S. Justice Department and the presidential administration, says the head of a conservative media watchdog. As the start of this year?s White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week nears, Robert Peters, president of Morality in the Media, is hoping to draw attention to a looming American problem ? pornography ? and wants more action taken...

Sex Education or Indoctrination? The Obama war on science

Posted on October 28, 2010
Conn Carroll writing at The Heritage Foundation / The Foundry: "On issue after issue, this administration has dressed up their political proposals behind the mantle of 'science,' and on every issue there simply is no scientific consensus to support their political positions...

Obama administration launches a sex-ed program

Posted on October 28, 2010
Washington Post: "Now, the Obama administration has entered the politically sensitive debate, promising to put scientific evidence before political ideology. A $110 million campaign will support a range of programs, including those that teach about the risks of specific sexual activities and the benefits of contraception and others that focus primarily on encouraging teens to delay sex...

Somali Islamists execute 2 girls; town horrified

Posted on October 28, 2010
Associated Press: "The two accused spies died amid a fusillade of bullets from a firing squad organized by a hardline Islamist militia. The condemned pair were only girls, aged 15 and 18, and their grieving relatives say they were uneducated, usually stayed at home and could not have spied for anyone...

Obamacare unpopular in key House districts

Posted on October 28, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "A majority of likely voters in the most competitive House districts support repealing the Democrats' health overhaul, according to recent polling data. The figures are one of the sharpest signals yet that Democrats are unlikely to translate their signature legislative achievement into success inside the voting booth...

A closer look at higher education

Posted on October 28, 2010
Jenna Ashley Robinson writing at the Pope Center: "[A] quick review of the facts reveals that American universities often deliver easy, biased, or useless content?at great expense to students, parents and taxpayers. While college still helps many individual students achieve their financial and academic goals, looking at the 'big picture' shows that college isn?t everything it?s cracked up to be...

British appeals court says teaching order not vicariously liable for abuse of students

Posted on October 28, 2010
The Guardian: "The Middlesbrough defendants (as the court called them) and the claimants appealed against this decision, arguing that the De La Salle Institute, a Catholic order of lay brothers, should also be vicariously liable because it was involved in running the school and provided teaching staff...

?St. Paul, MN City Council project raises church-state concerns?

Posted on October 28, 2010
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "Concerns about being sued over church-state separation issues has prompted St. Paul officials to hold off approval of a draft development agreement for a $36 million community center project that involves a church . . . The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota has requested project documents and is watching closely how the city works with Arlington Hills Lutheran Church...

WRAP week: fighting pornography proliferation

Posted on October 28, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "This year's White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week will run Sunday, October 31, through Sunday, November 7. The primary goal of the annual WRAP Week is to heighten public awareness of the harms associated with pornography and the need to enforce obscenity laws to curb the proliferation of hardcore adult pornography online and elsewhere...

Doug Napier on radio: Christian roommate wanted

Posted on October 28, 2010
ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on radio to discuss this: Mich. woman accused of civil rights violation for seeking Christian roommate at church. | The Hugh Hewitt Show the MP3 audio runs 7:41 mins | The Janet Mefferd Show the MP3 audio runs 18:50 mins

MO: Amish elders plead guilty to violating child abuse reporting requirement

Posted on October 28, 2010
South County Mail: "Four area Amish elders had their day in court last week, entering guilty pleas for failing to act as mandated reporters in telling law enforcement about allegations of child abuse within their southern Webster County community. Each was ordered to pay a $300 fine plus court costs...

Nevadans to Reid: Stop! Thief!

Posted on October 28, 2010
Renew America: "Democrats in Nevada have been accused of using strong-arm tactics best symbolized in recent years by the likes of ACORN and SEIU, so as to steal the election for Senate Democrat leader Harry Reid. The 'funny business' started when voters in Boulder City (near Las Vegas) showed up to cast their (early voting) ballot for Reid's Republican opponent, Sharron Angle...

Michael Stokes Paulsen: Where in the Constitution is ?Separation of Church and State??

Posted on October 28, 2010
Michael Stokes Paulsen writing at Public Discourse: "The correct understanding of the First Amendment is not that it forbids contact?and even voluntary cooperation?between church and state. Rather, it protects private religious liberty, but does so in two complementary ways...

White House criticized for ?politicizing? faith-based office

Posted on October 28, 2010
Baptist Press: "'The government -- and especially those who lead the faith-based initiative -- ought to do everything they can to avoid the appearance and reality of politicizing the initiative,' said Stanley Carlson-Thies, a former staff member with President Bush's faith-based office...

Americans United asks IRS to investigate Florida church whose pastor endorsed slate of candidates

Posted on October 28, 2010
Americans United for Separation of Church and State: "In a complaint filed with the IRS today, Americans United noted that Pastor Arlen Beck of Sun City Christian Center told congregants on Oct. 24 that he had prepared a list of candidates that he intends to vote for and placed copies of the list in the back of the church for their use...

Schools, stipends trigger Israeli religious battle

Posted on October 28, 2010
Daily Times: "Israel has maintained a shaky alliance with its ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority that allowed most religious men to avoid military service, attend separate schools and get paid by the state to study the Bible instead of entering the work force ...

Coalition asks Senate to pass bill allowing cameras to broadcast Supreme Court arguments

Posted on October 28, 2010
ACLU Press Release: "A coalition of public interest advocates led by the American Civil Liberties Union, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Alliance for Justice sent a letter to the Senate today urging action on a bill that would allow television coverage of open Supreme Court proceedings...

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