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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Doug Giles: Why pastors punt on political issues

Posted on October 18, 2010
Doug Giles writing at Townhall: "Now, given the upcoming 11/2 elections and that the culture-dividing issues are more obvious than Joan Rivers? last lip implants, it is mind-boggling to me that many ministers are mute or side with parties, policies and principles that are antithetical to the Christian worldview...

Republicans plan January takedowns of Obama?s ?czars?

Posted on October 18, 2010
The Daily Caller: "Republicans will have President Barack Obama?s czars and his use of regulatory powers to circumvent congressional inaction on issues such as cap and trade in GOP crosshairs if the party takes control in January."

Boulder County seeks high court review of Rocky Mountain Christian Church case

Posted on October 18, 2010
Longmont (CO) Times Call: "Boulder County formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to review the county?s lower-court losses in its land-use dispute with Rocky Mountain Christian Church, arguing that the case has implications for local governments nationwide...

CLS 2010 National Conference October 21-24

Posted on October 18, 2010
Christian Legal Society 2010 National Conference You are invited to join hundreds of attorneys, law students, other law professionals and their families at CLS?s 2010 National Conference. The conference planning team has lifted the bar significantly this year, giving special attention to both spiritual formation and professional development...

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In China, even the Premier is censored

Posted on October 18, 2010
L. Gordon Crovitz writing in The Wall Street Journal, "In China, even the Premier is censored," [full text via Google News]: "Consider Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. He has called for political reform several times in recent months, but censors have blocked domestic reporting of his comments...

Islamic public school threatens and intimidates witnesses in ACLU lawsuit

Posted on October 18, 2010
Katherine Kersten writing at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "The conflict began in January 2009, when the ACLU of Minnesota sued Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy -- a K-8 charter school with campuses in Inver Grove Heights and Blaine -- for violating constitutional prohibitions against government endorsement of religion ...

Big government?s government union firewall

Posted on October 18, 2010
Conn Carroll writing at The Heritage Foundation / The Foundry: "Striking back against the electorate?s small government fervor, AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman penned a strategy memo last week claiming 'Union Voters are the firewall for candidates that support working families...

R.J. Snell: Marriage and the law of tradition

Posted on October 18, 2010
"Perhaps Judge Vaughn Walker . . . imagined himself a contemporary Socrates when he declared that 'Tradition alone . . . cannot form a rational basis for a law,' and 'the "ancient lineage" of a classification does not make it rational.'"

Obama murdered Medicare

Posted on October 18, 2010
Thomas R. Saving and John C. Goodman writing in The Washington Times: "The health care reform law enacted in spring will have a devastating impact on elderly and disabled Medicare enrollees if its provisions are not substantially changed. The law creates a new mechanism to reduce the rate of increase in Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals...

Merkel says German multicultural society has failed

Posted on October 18, 2010
BBC News: "She said the so-called 'multikulti' concept - where people would 'live side-by-side' happily - did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate - including learning German."

Britain attempts to block Europe?s maternity rights plans

Posted on October 18, 2010
Telegraph: "The European Parliament will this week vote on plans to increase fully-paid maternity leave from 14 to 20 weeks. The move could cost British businesses and the Government more than �2.5 billion a year and fears are growing that the proposed legislation could lead to some firms rejecting female applicants for jobs...

Amnesty for same-sex couples?

Posted on October 18, 2010
Mark Tooley writing at The American Spectator: "Liberal Democratic Senators Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Patrick Leahy of Vermont introduced their 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act' on September 29 . . . It also includes a 'Uniting American Families Act' (UAFA) allowing 'permanent partners' of U...

SCOTUSblog Petition to Watch: SpeechNow.org v. FEC

Posted on October 18, 2010
SCOTUSblog page for SpeechNow.org v. FEC - "Whether, under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, the federal government may require an unincorporated association that makes only independent expenditures to register and report as a political committee...

Log Cabin Republicans oppose delay of DADT ruling

Posted on October 18, 2010
Lyle Denniston writing at SCOTUSblog: "Accusing the Obama Administration of ?hypocrisy at its highest levels? for trying to keep in force the 'don?t ask/don?t tell' policy that the government opposes and wants ended, a gay-rights group told a federal judge on Friday that maintaining the policy even temporarily will weaken the military services and national security...

Octomom fertility doc?s license hearing begins

Posted on October 18, 2010
Associated Press: "The fertility doctor who treated octuplets mother Nadya Suleman is at a licensing hearing in Los Angeles to face allegations that he implanted her with too many embryos."

In state races, marriage redefinition resurfaces as issue

Posted on October 18, 2010
Associated Press: "In Minnesota, New Hampshire, California and New York, gubernatorial campaigns have become battlegrounds for rival sides in the debate, with the Democratic candidates supporting same-sex marriage and the Republicans opposed."

Looking closely at what White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said about DADT

Posted on October 18, 2010
Althouse: "Gibbs doesn't say whether Obama thinks the law is unconstitutional . . . If the statute is unconstitutional, the courts should declare it a nullity. If the President think the process is repeal by Congress, then he must think the act is constitutional...

Social conservatives offer lukewarm support of would-be Speaker Boehner

Posted on October 18, 2010
The Daily Caller: "Two weeks out from an election in which Republicans are poised to make major gains, top social conservatives are voicing decidedly tepid support for House Minority Leader John Boehner, who stands ready to take the Speaker?s gavel if Republicans take the House in November ...

?Appeals court dismisses Cleveland gay registry challenge?

Posted on October 18, 2010
On Top Mag: "An appeals court has dismissed a challenge to Cleveland's gay-inclusive domestic partnership registry . . . Cincinnati attorney David R. Langdon filed the suit together with Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) attorneys on behalf of Dorothy McGuire, who represents the group Cleveland Taxpayers for the Ohio Constitution...

Appeals court rules in favor of San Diego firefighters forced to participate in ?gay pride? parade

Posted on October 18, 2010
California Catholic Daily: "'We hope this ruling will end the city?s attempts to defend its act of compelling people to participate in sexually-charged events against their moral and personal convictions,' said Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel Joseph Infranco, who was co-counsel in the case...

Court sides with California firefighters forced to participate in ?gay pride parade?

Posted on October 18, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "'We hope this ruling will end the city?s attempts to defend its act of compelling people to participate in sexually-charged events against their moral and personal convictions,' said ADF Senior Counsel [Joseph Infranco], co-counsel in the case...

Academic freedom verdict at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Posted on October 18, 2010
Inside Higher Ed: A special faculty panel investigating an academic freedom dispute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has [finished its inquiry] . . . [David French], senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said via e-mail that the report is correct in many respects...

Court upholds Pride Parade firefighters verdict

Posted on October 18, 2010
Sign On San Diego: "An appellate court panel . . . upheld last year?s jury verdict awarding damages to four San Diego firefighters who sued the city because they had been required to participate in the 2007 gay pride parade in Hillcrest . . . 'Government employees should never be forced to participate in events or acts that violate their sincerely held beliefs,' said Charles S...

Phoenix diocese forges ahead with Manhattan Declaration seminar

Posted on October 18, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "Despite a threatened protest by clergy from non-Catholic organizations, the Diocese of Phoenix will go ahead with its October 16 seminar on the Manhattan Declaration. The diocese maintains that the document upholds Catholic teachings that the Church cannot compromise...

Calif. school district disciplines a principal; says his prayer breakfast violated Constitution

Posted on October 18, 2010
Theology and Society blog: "Alliance Defense Fund Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco said that the district's contention that Richter had violated the Constitution is unfounded and absurd."

Bishop Gene Robinson: ?How religion is killing our most vulnerable youth?

Posted on October 18, 2010
Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson writing at The Huffington Post: "An increasingly popular bumper sticker reads, 'Guns Don't Kill People -- RELIGION Kills People!' In light of recent events I would add religion kills young people: gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender young people ...

Atheism is becoming the new religion, evangelicals warned

Posted on October 18, 2010
Christian Today: "Carver Yu, President of the China Graduate School of Theology in Hong Kong, said that 'confusing ideologies' were creating emptiness and alienation among people, while indifference to religion was 'tightening its grip' . . . 'Atheism is about to become the new religion,' he said...

University of Wisconsin La Crosse sees abortion backers vandalize pro-life display

Posted on October 18, 2010
LifeNews: "Abortion advocates at La Crosse University in Wisconsin vandalized a pro-life student the pro-life campus group erected. The organization put up 1,100 crosses to memorialize the unborn children who are killed in abortions and they found the crosses in piles Monday morning along with pro-abortion signs posted...

Do American public school students and employees sacrifice all religious rights?

Posted on October 18, 2010
Yahoo: "According to Alliance Defense Fund Legal News, Foothill Elementary School principal Craig Richter used off-duty hours to appear in a video promoting community prayer. A Goleta Union School Board member saw the video and claimed it was against 'separation of church and state' for the principal to do so...

Kent church to convert to Catholicism over women and homosexual bishops row

Posted on October 18, 2010
BBC News: "Father Stephen Bould told the BBC that he will probably follow some of the congregation of St Peter's in Folkestone into the Roman Catholic Church." (video)

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