Religion & Law

Ann Coulter At Homocon: ?Marriage Is Not A Civil Right. You?re Not Black.?

Posted on September 27, 2010
Talking Points Memo: "After a series of jokes about conservative that sounded -- and were received -- more like a stand-up act then a political speech, Coulter told the assembled (and predominantly wealthy) conservative gay crowd why they should oppose same sex marriage, adding, 'I should warn you: I've never failed to talk gays out of gay marriage' ...

Monogamy, polygyny and the well-tended garden

Posted on September 27, 2010
Miller-McCune: "Anthropologists say 83 percent of societies they have studied traditionally permitted polygyny ? marriage with multiple wives. (The more common term 'polygamy' has the broader definition of having multiple spouses.) Just 17 percent insisted on monogamous marriage ...

Acquitted Christian missionaries plan to sue Dearborn over arrests at Arab festival

Posted on September 27, 2010
MLive.com: "A jury on Friday acquitted four Christian missionaries accused of breaching the peace at the Dearborn International Arab Festival in June, but their attorney says the legal battle is far from over. Robert Muise of the Thomas More Law Center plans to file a civil lawsuit on their behalf against the City of Dearborn 'in short order,' he said this morning on WJR-AM 760...

Chuck Colson: ?Marriage and the economy: No Dough, No Go?

Posted on September 27, 2010
Chuck Colson writing in The Christian Post: "[T]here's another, little-understood theater in the war on marriage-our struggling economy . . . What do today?s tough times have to do with marriage? In a word, fear. According to Cherlin and Wilcox, 'Working-class couples still value marriage highly, but with their paychecks shrinking, they don?t think they have enough money to make a marriage work...

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Pulpit Freedom Sunday threatens our voluntary tax system

Posted on September 27, 2010
Charity Governance Consulting LLC: "Yesterday was Pulpit Freedom Sunday, which was organized by the Alliance Defense Fund . . . We?ve got news for the participants. You sound no different than the imbeciles claiming that the income tax is unconstitutional...

Want a Jewish lawyer? Advertisement upsets other attorneys

Posted on September 27, 2010
Emunah: "The Jewish American Bar Association first caught the attention of local lawyers this month with an advertisement on a bus bench near the Broward County Courthouse that exclaimed 'Prefer a Jewish lawyer!' and offered the business' phone number...

Top UK Catholic bishop: ?We fight poverty not gay unions?

Posted on September 27, 2010
LifeSiteNews (link includes relevant audio of the interview): "A day after the departure of Pope Benedict XVI from Britain, his senior archbishop, the unofficial head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, told a BBC interviewer that the English bishops had purposely refused to oppose legalizing homosexual civil partnerships ...

Dozens of Christians beaten by mob in Gujrat, Pakistan

Posted on September 27, 2010
Christian Post: "A mob of Muslim extremists on Thursday shot at and beat dozens of Christians, including one cleared of 'blasphemy' charges, in Punjab Province?s Gujrat district, Christian leaders said."

Mark Steyn: Bowing to Islam?s view of us

Posted on September 27, 2010
Mark Steyn writing in The Orange County Register: "Too many people in the free world have internalized Islam?s view of them . . . What does that degree of prostration before their prejudices tell them about us? It?s a problem that Muslims think we?re unclean...

India: Police arrest Pentecostal pastor beaten by Hindu extremists

Posted on September 27, 2010
Asia News: "A Pentecostal pastor Shivanda Siddi was arrested in Karnataka yesterday, with the false accusation of forcing conversions to Christianity. Sajan K. George, chairman of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) told AsiaNews that he was simply celebrating Sunday services at his Church Gnanodaya ('Dawn of Knowledge') in the Umachagi village, Mundgod Taluk...

TN: Witness accuses local Muslim leaders of being Sharia backers

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Daily News Journal: "A witness in court today accused the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro?s leaders, including Imam Ossama Bahloul, of being supporters of Sharia law. 'I see several things that are a red flag from a security standpoint,? Frank J. Gaffney Jr...

Iowa: ?Gay rights? at stake in Sioux City Human Rights Commission dispute

Posted on September 27, 2010
Des Moines Register: "Protecting rights has taken an odd turn in Sioux City, where a faction on the city's Human Rights Commission has itself been filing religious discrimination charges with the state - against its own director, a fellow commissioner and a newspaper...

Birth control over baldness

Posted on September 27, 2010
Nicholas D. Kristof writing in The New York Times: "Over the next decade, some astonishing new technologies will spread to fight global poverty. They?re called contraceptives. This is a high-tech revolution that will affect more people in a more intimate way than almost any other technological stride...

Congress prepares to punt, spend the fall campaigning

Posted on September 27, 2010
McClatchy: "Congress is deadlocked over virtually every major issue still pending this year, including key economic matters such as a detailed federal spending plan and extending Bush-era tax cuts, yet lawmakers still hope to leave Washington by Friday and not return until mid-November...

Poor couples in Philippines to get contraceptives

Posted on September 27, 2010
Gulf News: "Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Monday said the government will start providing contraceptives to poor couples in a bid to control the growth of the country's population which has ballooned to more than 90 million."

Advocates of homosexual behavior hard at work in PA

Posted on September 27, 2010
OneNewsNow: "Homosexual activists have been working especially hard in eastern Pennsylvania to include language that caters to their lifestyle. Diane Gramley, president of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, confirms that that part of the state is definitely under attack...

Iranian Parliament receives petition to scrap polygamy

Posted on September 27, 2010
Eurasia Review: "A group of women?s rights activists delivered a petition with five thousand signatures to the Iranian parliament urging the legislative body to 'bar polygamy.' ILNA reports that the petition was delivered by 40 women who called on the parliament to halt all efforts in 'promoting temporary marriages and polygamy...

Advocates push for ?third sex? ID cards for Nepalese ?transgender? people

Posted on September 27, 2010
Bay Windows (GLBT Newspaper): "The Global Forum on MSM & HIV has called on Nepal?s Home Ministry to issue 'third sex' citizenship cards to transgender people in accord with a 2007 Supreme Court decision."

Scotland: Disability group to protest against assisted suicide bill

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Christian Institute: "A disability campaign group is to protest tomorrow against a Scottish assisted suicide bill, declaring that disabled people want assistance to live. Inclusion Scotland is demonstrating outside the Scottish Parliament from 9.30am against the controversial End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill which is spearheaded by Margo MacDonald MSP...

BlackBerry CEO suggests route to eavesdropping

Posted on September 27, 2010
Associated Press: "BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. says it has no way of providing government officials with the text of encrypted corporate e-mails its devices serve up. But if the companies that employ BlackBerry phones want to hand over the encryption keys to their e-mail, it won't object ...

Justice Dept. defends DADT in court

Posted on September 27, 2010
Michael Foust reports at Baptist Press: "The Obama Justice Department is asking a federal judge to keep the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy on homosexuals in place, arguing that rulings in other circuits upholding the ban prevent the judge from issuing a nationwide injunction against the 17-year-old policy...

Australia: Warringah plan for register of committed, if unmarried, couples

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Manly Daily: "Warringah could soon follow the lead of City of Sydney Council in creating a 'commitment register' that would recognise both same-sex and opposite-sex relationships. Cr Jason Falinski has put forward the proposal, which would allow unmarried couples to register their commitment to each other through a process managed by council...

Video coverage of Pulpit Freedom Sunday: Joe Infranco on ABC 15 (AZ); NBC 4 (TN)

Posted on September 27, 2010
ADF Attorney Joe Infranco appeared on ABC 15 (AZ) to discuss Pulpit Freedom Sunday. NBC 4 (TN) also covered the initiative. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvs0LDLj_Ng http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g6rHB7t9lE

MA: Buddhist temple in Raynham will be one of world?s largest

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Enterprise: "A Buddhist temple to be built in Raynham may end up as one of the world?s largest and will be home to about 16 Thai monks. The 50-acre South Street East property will include a meditation center, dormitory, temple, museum and gardens ...

Two more Christians expelled from Morocco

Posted on September 27, 2010
MoroccoBoard News Service: "According to a news release from International Christian Concern (ICC), on Sept.17, the Moroccan newspaper Al Massae reported that Harder and Sanhi Russell were expelled from the country for 'carrying out acts of proselytism' in the city of Kenitra...

Italian Muslims appeal to president over ?discrimination? in north

Posted on September 27, 2010
Ahlul Bayt News Agency: "Muslims in Italy have written to the country's president Giorgio Napolitano claiming their constitutional rights are being violated by the anti-immigrant policies of the Northern League party."

Gospel for Asia fears Nepal?s draft constitution could threaten religious freedom

Posted on September 27, 2010
Christian Today: "Nepal?s draft constitution has left Gospel for Asia with mixed feelings after a legislative committee last week proposed retaining a ban on activities aimed at religious conversions . . . The draft constitution guarantees the right of religious denominations to control their own affairs but the legislative committee wants a clause upholding a ban on encouraging conversions which has existed in Nepal since 1951...

Global religious freedom is crucial to all

Posted on September 27, 2010
The Philadelphia Inquirer: "A society that respects religious liberty also allows diverse claims of truth to compete beside one another, creating an atmosphere of civil debate, transparency, and respect. The modern doctrine of religious liberty may have been incubated in America, but there are ample precedents for it in the Islamic world ...

Coptic leader apologizes for bishop?s statement questioning Koran

Posted on September 27, 2010
Associated Press: ". . . For this incident, Shenouda blamed the press for possibly misquoting Bishoy and said that 'we are the ones who are guests since Muslims are the majority.' Coptic Christians make up around 6 to 10 percent of the country's 80 million people...

Poll: GOP conservatives older and more religious

Posted on September 27, 2010
UPI: "The dominant conservative bloc in the U.S. Republican electorate is populated by older and more religious voters, polls indicate."

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