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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Women?s brains grow after giving birth

Posted on October 20, 2010
Telegraph: "The popular belief that women's minds turn to mush during pregnancy and birth is completely wrong and their grey matter actually increases, they say. Research published by the American Psychological Association found that the brains of new mothers bulked up as they coped with the steep learning curve of dealing with a newborn...

White House rejects ?gay? judicial nominee Daniel Alter

Posted on October 20, 2010
Washington Blade: "The White House has rejected the recommended nomination of a New York attorney who would have become the first openly gay man to sit on the federal bench, because of comments he reportedly made about the Pledge of Allegiance and Christmas that were deemed anti-Christian...

How does induced abortion raise breast cancer risk?

Posted on October 20, 2010
FoodConsumer.org: "In the pink month - the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we'd like readers to know something that many women may not have learned from any other source, and that is, induced abortion increases risk of breast cancer."

Massachusetts campaign targets child prostitution

Posted on October 20, 2010
Boston Herald: "A Suffolk County program has identified more than 400 child prostitutes in the past five years, taking them off the streets and diverting them to social services in a program that Attorney General Martha Coakley wants to expand to the rest of the state...

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Netherlands: Tilburg vicar banned from early morning bell ringing

Posted on October 20, 2010
Dutch News: "Tilburg vicar Harm Schilder has been banned from ringing the bells of the Holy Margarita Maria church in Tilburg at 07.15 every weekday morning."

Student group to protest University of Minnesota spending

Posted on October 20, 2010
FOX 9: "Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Minnesota will protest what it considers irresponsible spending by the school in front of Morrill Hall on Northrop Plaza at noon."

Religious discrimination complaints increase by 87% in past decade, Muslims account for 25%

Posted on October 20, 2010
Inc.com: "Complaints of religious discrimination at work have increased 87 percent in the past decade ? more than four times the increase of any other type of complaint, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission . . . Complaints from Muslims nearly tripled in the past decade and now account for nearly one-quarter of the anti-religious accusations...

Michael Medved: Disapproval of Islam is no indication of bigotry

Posted on October 20, 2010
Michael Medved writing at Townhall: "Reservations about Islam, and even fears of the Muslim faith?s influence on the world at large, don?t constitute paranoia or intolerance. These concerns represent an honest and reasonable response on the part of a significant segment of the public to a serious global challenge to the values that Americans hold most dear...

BC Law student asks for money back

Posted on October 20, 2010
Boston Herald: "A third-year Boston College Law School student facing dismal job prospects and a mountain of student loan debt has offered the prestigious Hub institution a unique deal: Keep the degree . . . and give me back my tuition!"

Netherlands: Muslims threaten Christians in asylum-seeker centers

Posted on October 20, 2010
NIS News Bulletin: "Christians are threatened or maltreated by Muslims in many asylum-seeker centres in the Netherlands, TV programme Uitgesproken EO has reported. The Lower House is demanding clarification."

FFRF demands Tennessee school end prayers before football games

Posted on October 20, 2010
Fox News: "A group that promotes the separation of church and state is demanding an end to prayers before football games at Soddy-Daisy High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee."

?Pulpit partisanship? and in-church voting alarming, Iowa ACLU says

Posted on October 20, 2010
Des Moines Register / Iowa Politics Insider: "Churches that have become increasingly political ? including two in Ames that will host satellite voting later this month ? blur the line between the separation of church and state, the executive director of the Iowa ACLU said today...

A religious test for Rand Paul

Posted on October 20, 2010
W. James Antle writing at The American Spectator: "There's a double standard when it comes to religion and politics. Many people who claim to want the former out of the latter really only object to conservative religion advancing conservative politics ...

How separation of church and state was read into the Constitution (Hint: the KKK got its way)

Posted on October 20, 2010
Jim Lindgren writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "On this, I reprint part of an old post from 2005 . . . 6. The phrase 'Separation of Church and State,' as Philip Hamburger establishes in his classic book on the subject, is not in the language of the first amendment, was not favored by any influential framer at the time of the first amendment, and was not its purpose...

UK: Think tank warns against legalizing assisted suicide

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Guardian: "The old, ill, mute and frail will be deemed expendable if assisted suicide is legalised, a thinktank says today. Society's most vulnerable risk being bullied into an early death by greedy or uncaring relatives or bureaucrats, according to a study published by the Centre for Policy Studies...

More than a dozen House Democrats now want Pelosi out as Speaker

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Daily Caller: "There are now more than a dozen House Democrats ? the list is at 14 and growing by the day ? who want to fire Speaker Nancy Pelosi if their party somehow manages to keep its majority on Nov. 2."

Utah County prosecutors to meet Tuesday to discuss bigamy case involving Lehi TV family

Posted on October 19, 2010
Deseret News: "Prosecutors with the Utah County Attorney's Office are scheduled to meet with Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff Tuesday to discuss potential bigamy charges against the Lehi family."

Escape from polygamy: A former sister-wife shares why she left

Posted on October 19, 2010
Lemondrop.com: "During the past two years, Verlan had constructed separate adobe homes for each wife. He married Lillie, and now he was busily courting another teenage girl named Kim. Three babies were being born into our family on average each year. Indeed, Verlan was adding many new jewels to his eternal crown...

Muslim rebels stage suicide attack on Chechen parliament

Posted on October 19, 2010
Reuters: "Islamist rebels killed at least three people on Tuesday as they tried to seize Chechnya's parliament in a brazen suicide attack that showed Russia is failing to quell the insurgency on its southern flank."

Proposals to deny citizenship to illegal immigrants? children in the works, lawmaker says

Posted on October 19, 2010
Arizona Republic: "Lawmakers in states across the country are combining to work on proposed legislation to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to parents who are illegal immigrants, the sponsor of Arizona's 2010 law targeting illegal immigration said Tuesday...

NSW, Australia: Labor to defy churches: ethics classes likely to start next year

Posted on October 19, 2010
The Independent Weekly: "STUDENTS in NSW will be offered ethics classes as an alternative to scripture classes by next year, under a proposal the government is expected to adopt. The Minister for Education, Verity Firth, will release today the findings of an independent report on a trial of ethics classes held in 10 schools over 10 weeks this year...

Justice Kennedy Orders Response on Request to Halt Maine Public Funding Scheme

Posted on October 19, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy today ordered responsive briefing on an emergency request to halt unconstitutional aspects of Maine?s public funding scheme for state candidates.

Video: ?Clergy protest Catholics stance on gays?

Posted on October 19, 2010
ADF President and CEO Alan Sears appears briefly [no audio] in this clip from NBC-12 covering the Manhattan Declaration seminar hosted by the Diocese of Phoenix, AZ.

Brooklyn, NY: Sheepshead Bay mosque is denied permit

Posted on October 19, 2010
The Brooklyn Paper: "City officials on Friday quietly scrubbed a controversial Sheepshead Bay mosque, which had already been the subject of months of review and protests, and ordered another probe of the project."

Egypt cuts a deal: Christians fed to Muslim ?lions?

Posted on October 19, 2010
Middle East Forum: "Magdi Khalil, a human rights activist at the forefront of the 'Coptic question,' states that 'Egypt is on the verge of chaos and change of regime and there is a plan for Copts to pay the price of this predicted chaos, by directing the surplus violence, hate and barbarism towards them...

A few federal judges shouldn?t decide legality of same-sex ?marriage?

Posted on October 19, 2010
Michael Piano writing in The Daily Athenaeum (West Virginia University): "There is no constitutional or historic precedent for gay marriage or civil unions, and such matters of immense innovation of human relationships should be not be left to a few judges here and there, falsely claiming a centuries-long tradition of constitutionality to support their claims...

Egypt pulls plug on TV stations over ?religious hatred?

Posted on October 19, 2010
Gulf News: "Egypt's state-owned Nilesat has temporarily suspended 12 television channels for promoting religion hatred, violence and quack medicine, the information minister said on Tuesday."

In the courts: Voucher battle redux

Posted on October 19, 2010
David Masci, Senior Researcher, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: "On Nov. 3, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a pair of related cases involving a constitutional challenge to an Arizona tax policy aimed at providing scholarships for children to attend private -- often religious -- schools...

NE: Discrimination ordinance splits Omaha city council

Posted on October 19, 2010
Omaha World-Herald: "A change in Omaha city ordinance that would give gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people new protections against discrimination has hit some snags."

Christians Urged to Wake Up to Reality of GLBT Agenda

Posted on October 19, 2010
Christian Post: "All the while, Christians have not concerned themselves with the issue and pastors are afraid to speak out for fear of being perceived as homophobic, he lamented. Though he has published with major publishers before, no secular or Christian publisher was willing to go near his new book, titled A Queer Thing Happened to America: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been...

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