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Joe Infranco on ?In the Market? with Janet Parshall: Firefighters refuse to participate in ?gay pride?

Posted on October 14, 2010
ADF attorney Joe Infranco appeared on Moody Radio's "In the Market" with Janet Parshall to discuss this: Fire alarm in San Diego: ADF-allied attorney argues for firefighters on appeal. | MP3 audio 14:59 mins

Corey J. Hodges: Don?t ban politics from the pulpit

Posted on October 14, 2010
Corey J. Hodges writes at The Salt Lake Tribune: "Some argue that tax exemption is a government subsidy, opening the door to some federal oversight. The ADF disagrees.?Churches are exempt from taxation under the principle that there is no surer way to destroy religion than to begin taxing it,? ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley said...

German universities to funding training of Muslim imams, teachers

Posted on October 14, 2010
Reuters: "Germany announced on Thursday it would fund Islamic studies at three state universities to train prayer leaders and religion teachers more in tune with Western society than the foreign imams preaching at most mosques here."

CAIR: Family, Community Leaders to Respond to DOJ Report on Mich. Imam?s Killing

Posted on October 14, 2010
PR Newswire: "Later today (October 14), the family of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah and community leaders will hold a news conference in Detroit to offer their response to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division that exonerated FBI agents in the fatal shooting of Imam Abdullah last October...

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Irreconcilable Difference: Islam and the West

Posted on October 14, 2010
Conrad Black writes at National Review: "It is certainly time that the West considered systematically whether it has irreconcilable differences with Islam. The belligerence of many Islamic spokesmen and the unassimilable quality of many Muslim immigrants in the West, as well as the spectacular terrorist provocations of extreme Islamic groups, make this a very legitimate question...

Obama Today: ?Don?t ask, don?t tell? ending on his watch

Posted on October 14, 2010
AP: "However, Obama says he can't end the "don't ask, don't tell" law with an executive order and is urging Congress to repeal it."

Mutilated Afghan woman unveils new nose

Posted on October 14, 2010
Breitbart: "As a young woman Bibi Ayesha's nose and ears were mutilated by her husband under the authoritarian Taliban regime, and she came to California a few months ago, aged 18, to undergo reconstructive surgery."

Obama administration asks for stay on ?don?t ask? ruling

Posted on October 14, 2010
"Justice Department lawyers wrote they will take their emergency request for a stay to the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals if the judge denies it."

Judge lets states? healthcare suit go forward

Posted on October 14, 2010
Reuters: "States can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform law, a Florida judge ruled on Thursday."

Libresco: When debates go sour ? Gallagher v. Wolfson marriage debate at Yale

Posted on October 14, 2010
Leah Libresco writes at Yale Daily News: "While checking Facebook during the Yale Political Union debate between Evan Wolfson, head of Freedom to Marry, and Maggie Gallagher, a leader from the National Organization for Marriage, I was pleased to see a steady stream of debate-related statuses...

Pentagon accused of ignoring ?don?t ask? ruling

Posted on October 14, 2010
"According to the Times article, 'recruiters turned [the ex-sailor] away hastily, saying they had no knowledge of any injunction,' Log Cabin lawyer Dan Woods wrote in a letter Thursday to the Justice Department."

ME: Madison Strip club given cold shoulder

Posted on October 14, 2010
Kennebec Journal: "A majority of voters at Wednesday night's special town meeting at the junior high school voted to usher in an adult-entertainment ordinance that prohibits nudity in a commercial establishment."

Obama Urged to Appeal Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell Ruling | Christianpost.com

Posted on October 13, 2010
Christian Post: "Conservatives are calling on the Obama administration to appeal a federal judge's decision that the military must halt the enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy."

?Russian patriarch slams Spanish gay marriage ?propaganda??

Posted on October 13, 2010
RiaNovosti: "The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has decried gay relationship "propaganda" in Spanish secondary school textbooks."

Contraception cannot be the ?default mode? of marriage, Sacramento bishop says :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

Posted on October 13, 2010
CNA: "Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento said that the meaning of human sexuality and relationships are 'misunderstood and misused' because contraception has become the 'unquestioned default mode of marriage.'"

Fears of Sharia Law in America Grow Among Conservatives ? Political Hotsheet ? CBS News

Posted on October 13, 2010
CBSNews: "The rise of anti-Muslim sentiment in America has brought with it a wave of largely-unsubstantiated suggestions from conservative media commentators and politicians that America is at risk of falling under the sway of Sharia law."

Abortion Boosts Breast Cancer Risk 193% Study Finds, Giving Birth Lowers It

Posted on October 13, 2010
LifeNews: "Researchers in Iran have published the results of a new study showing women who have an abortion face a 193% increased risk of breast cancer. On the other hand, women who carry a pregnancy to term find a lowered breast cancer risk compared with women who have never been pregnant...

What is the effect of ?Ella? on a teenage woman?s body?

Posted on October 13, 2010
FRC Blog (includes video): ". . . it is not known if a young woman might have difficulty in recovering ovarian activity once it has been intentionally blocked."

Gallup: 46 Percent Say Federal Gov?t ?Poses Immediate Threat? to Rights and Freedoms of Ordinary Citizens

Posted on October 13, 2010
CNSNews: "The percentage of Americans who think the federal government poses ?an immediate threat? to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens has increased significantly over the last seven years, rising from 30 percent to 46 percent, according to a Gallup poll conducted Sept...

Despite objections, Senate panel approves new judges

Posted on October 13, 2010
Post-Gazette.com: "The state Senate is moving ahead on the confirmation of two new Common Pleas Court judges, including one in Washington County, even though Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald Castille doesn't want to add personnel due to budgetary problems...

Group tells IRS that Iowa churches are clearly violating the law by politicking ? Iowa State Daily: State ? Group tells IRS that Iowa churches are clearly violating the law by politicking: State

Posted on October 13, 2010
Iowa State Daily: "Gordon's church also participated in Pulpit Freedom Sunday in September, a national effort organized by the Alliance Defense Fund, a conservative group, aimed at convincing pastors to endorse political candidates from the pulpit in violation of the current tax code...

AZ voters to decide Nov. 2 on several ballot propositions

Posted on October 13, 2010
Benson News Sun: "Besides decisions about state and local offices, voters this November also have a lot of propositions to consider."

NJ: Abortionist grossly negligent for transporting patients to MD

Posted on October 13, 2010
AP: "The New Jersey attorney general's office says an abortion doctor was "grossly negligent" for transporting some patients to Maryland to take advantage of disparities in the two states' abortion laws."

?Free to Believe? campaign launched in response to UN resolution

Posted on October 13, 2010
Christian Newswire: "Open Doors USA is launching an advocacy campaign called "Free to Believe." The campaign will focus on helping persecuted Christians who currently do not have religious freedom like Christians do in the United States. The campaign is a response to the United Nations Defamation of Religions Resolution ...

?DADT? ruling gives White House a legal quandary

Posted on October 13, 2010
Stars and Stripes: Elaine Donnelly, president of the conservative Center for Military Readiness, said a decision not to appeal would 'abandon fundamental constitutional principles allocating power and responsibility for military affairs to the legislative and executive branches...

White House Faith-Based Council Unchanged; Questions Linger

Posted on October 13, 2010
Christian Post: "It has been nearly seven months since the White House?s faith-based advisers concluded their work with the release of a report of recommendations. But no new advisory council members have been named and the critical question surrounding the reformation of the faith-based office has yet been resolved...

The World Changed, Colleges Missed It

Posted on October 13, 2010
Tom Vander Ark writes at the Huffington Post: "A bunch of colleges are going out of business, only they don't know it. They pretend that trimming costs and jacking tuition is a solution. They haven't come to terms with a world where anyone can learn anything almost anywhere for free or cheap...

Spanish ?Equality Minister?: Unborn Babies Aren?t Human

Posted on October 13, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "According to Spanish Equality Minister Bibiana Aído, unborn human children are not human beings."

Public Employees vs. the Public Will

Posted on October 13, 2010
NCPA Policy Digest: "In 2009, the Gallup research group reported that for the first time in 70 years of polling, a majority of Americans opposed labor unions. An April Pew study showed that favorable ratings for unions had plummeted from 58 percent in 2007 to 40 percent in 2010...

The Myth of The Switch In Time

Posted on October 13, 2010
Timothy Sandefur writes at the Volokh Conspiracy: "It?s certainly true that the 1930s (what Auden called ?a low, dishonest decade?) saw a profound shift in American constitutional law, but that change is best seen as the climax of a decades-long struggle by Progressives to change constitutional doctrines via interpretation...

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