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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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7th Circuit upholds Illinois ?period of silence? law

Posted on October 15, 2010
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit Friday upheld an Illinois law that allows public school students to engage in voluntary prayer and reflection as part of a moment of silence during the school day.

Judge removes GOP nominee from Fla. Senate ballot

Posted on October 15, 2010
Miami Herald: "A judge in Tallahassee has removed Republican Florida Senate nominee Jim Norman from the ballot in a Tampa area district for violating the state's financial disclosure laws." | More details and link to the ruling.

Texas: Group wants prayer discontinued at council meetings

Posted on October 15, 2010
Lake Shore Times: "The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent a letter to Rowlett Mayor John Harper on Aug. 27 requesting that that the council disallow invocations during city council meetings."

ADF: Blazing fast ruling in favor of San Diego firefighters

Posted on October 15, 2010
Less than a week after hearing oral argument, a California appellate court has upheld a jury verdict which found that four San Diego firefighters represented by an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney should not have been forced to participate in the city?s ?Gay Pride Parade...

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ADF Allied Attorney Success Stories: October 2010

Posted on October 15, 2010
Congratulations to allied attorneys Ian Benson, Jim Bopp, Dean Broyles, Peter Costea, Anthony Duprey, Steve Fitschen, Barry Hodge, Bill Kumpe, Chuck LiMandri, Casey Luskin, Alan Reinach, and Demetrios Stratis for their recent accomplishments and successes listed below...

?UW-Eau Claire professor sends anti-gay e-mail?

Posted on October 15, 2010
StarTribune.com: "The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will take administrative action against a professor who sent an anti-gay e-mail to a student."

Ireland: Remove disincentives to marriage, cohabitation says report

Posted on October 15, 2010
Iona Institute: "The committee, in a report set to be published next week, says that the Lone Parent Allowance and ?qualified adult? social welfare payment should be replaced by a single parental allowance payable to all low-income parents, the Irish Times reports...

Leftist clergy to protest Phoenix Catholic Diocese over Manhattan Declaration

Posted on October 15, 2010
AZ Republic: "A group of liberal clergy and others who support gay rights are planning a protest Saturday morning outside St. Mary's Basilica in downtown Phoenix."

Only half of Belgium?s euthanasia cases are reported

Posted on October 15, 2010
BioEdge: "Only half of all euthanasia cases in Belgium are reported, according to a study in the BMJ. Euthanasia has been legal since 2002 and three biennial reports have been published about all reported cases of euthanasia. No cases of abuse have ever been found...

Ohio abortions down 3% to 28,721 last year

Posted on October 15, 2010
NECN.com: "The Ohio Department of Health said Thursday that 28,721 pregnancies were terminated in the state last year, down 3 percent from 2008."

China, India, Japan grapple with the quality of legal education

Posted on October 15, 2010
Karen Sloan writes at the National Law Journal: "Other countries face much larger problems when it comes to regulating the number of law students and quality of legal education. Legal educators from India, China, Japan and France spoke at Harvard Law School Friday during a panel discussion about the challenges they face in producing an appropriate number of good lawyers...

Former Brazilian Soldiers Say they Were Forced to Have Sex with Homosexual Superior

Posted on October 15, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "A group of former Brazilian soldiers say that a lieutenant colonel sexually harassed and forced recruits to engage in sex acts with him in order to continue their military careers, according to the Brazilian television network R7."

Cuomo: ?Gay ?Marriage? Coming to New York?

Posted on October 15, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Legalizing same-sex 'marriage' in New York will be a number one priority in his administration, said Democrat gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo to homosexual activists Wednesday."

Jay Sekulow: Keep IRS Out of Churches & ?under God? in the Pledge

Posted on October 15, 2010
Jay Sekulow writes at BeliefNet: "Let's not forget that this IRS prohibition on endorsing or opposing candidates from the pulpit was not born out of some desire to bring constitutional clarity to the issue, or even to draw a bright line on church/state issues...

Hong Kong diocese stages prayer vigil for religious freedom in China

Posted on October 15, 2010
Catholic Culture: "In a significant victory for freedom of expression, the Hong Kong diocese has won approval to hold a prayer vigil for religious liberty in China, despite strong resistance from government officials."

Fort Hood soldier ordered to delete video of rampage

Posted on October 15, 2010
Breitbart: "A US soldier who captured a deadly 2009 rampage at Fort Hood with his cell phone camera testified Friday that he was ordered to erase the video by his commanders."

China Church Leaders Blocked from Attending Major Int?l Christian Gathering

Posted on October 15, 2010
Christian Post: "China?s government is preventing Christian leaders in the country from attending a major international gathering of mission-minded leaders by stopping them as they reach the airport and confiscating their passports."

Florida: Abortion e-mail could stir up governor?s race

Posted on October 15, 2010
HeraldTribune.com: "A state legislator claims in a new message to supporters that Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott has pledged, if elected, to throw his support behind a bill that would make abortion illegal in Florida in nearly all instances, including rape and incest...

Pro-Life Victory: KS Supreme Court Allows Planned Parenthood Criminal Case to Go Forward

Posted on October 15, 2010
"The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the mammoth 107-count criminal case against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri may move forward and remanded the case back down to the Johnson County District Attorney's Office for prosecution . . ...

Muslims Target Fla. TV/Internet Evangelist for Death

Posted on October 14, 2010
Christian Newswire: "The leader of LivePrayer.com an internet ministry that has over 2.4 million subscribers worldwide reading his Daily Devotional, host of the "Liveprayer with Bill Keller" television program, and founder of the newly opened "9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero," has been targeted by Muslims to be put to death for "disrespecting Allah" and the Islamic religion...

Neb. senator seeks talks in Congress on fetal pain

Posted on October 14, 2010
AP: "Bolstered by the passage of unique abortion restrictions in his home state of Nebraska, U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns is pushing for a new federal discussion of the notion of fetal pain."

Right to ?Privacy? Has Men Hurting, Killing Women Who Refuse Abortions

Posted on October 14, 2010
LifeNews: "It?s the dirty little secret the abortion industry doesn't want you to know about.Under the cloak of the so-called ?right to privacy,? women are being bullied into abortions."

C-Span Debate Coverage for U.S. Senate (Delaware): Christine O?Donnell (R) v. Chris Coons (D)

Posted on October 14, 2010
C-Span carries video of the entire debate here. It runs one and a half hours.

Father Frank Pavone: No Truce on Abortion, Can?t Agree to Disagree on Life

Posted on October 14, 2010
Father Frank Pavone writes at Washington Times: "First of all, to ask us to "agree to disagree" about abortion is to ask us to change our position on it. Why do we disagree in the first place? When we oppose abortion, we disagree with the notion that it is even negotiable...

UK: Rape ?Impossible? In Marriage? Muslim Cleric Sparks Outrage

Posted on October 14, 2010
Post Chronicle: "He told the website: 'Clearly there cannot be any rape within the marriage. Maybe aggression, maybe indecent activity... Because when they got married, the understanding was that sexual intercourse was part of the marriage, so there cannot be anything against sex in marriage...

Congressional Muslim Staffers Hosted Second Al-Qaeda Cleric on Capitol Hill

Posted on October 14, 2010
Pajamas Media: " Last month, I reported�exclusively at PJM about�video showing al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki leading prayers on Capitol Hill for Muslim congressional staffers and officials for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) . . .�But a recent�New York Post article about how Johnson?s former employer, Rep...

IRS asked to investigate Islamic sponsor of National Prayer Breakfast for terrorist connections

Posted on October 14, 2010
Washington Post: "A group of Ohio ministers has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the organization that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast because it received money six years ago from an alleged Islamic terrorist organization trying to finance illicit lobbying...

The Incredible, Profitable Egg: ?Eggsploitation? Uncovers Dark Side of Infertility Industry

Posted on October 14, 2010
E Christian Brugger writes at the Culture of Life Foundation: "Dr. Robert Edwards, IVF pioneer and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, first fertilized a human egg in vitro (literally "in glass") in 1969. The embryo died after the first cell division...

Christine O?Donnell: My Views on Evolution are ?Irrelevant,? Local Schools Should Decide

Posted on October 14, 2010
CBS (includes video): "O'Donnell said. Pressed multiple times to share her beliefs, she said that she believes local school districts should make the determination about what is taught, and that the federal government should not be mandating that schools do not teach creationism...

O?Donnell: ?Regardless of my faith. . . it is the Constitution I will defend?

Posted on October 14, 2010
Washington Post: "But it was O'Donnell and Coons' reflections of the role of religion in politics that provided a rare point of agreement for the Republican and Democrat. From a transcript of the debate . . . "

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