Religion & Law

Man Arrested after Threatening to Shoot Pro-lifers at Late-Term Abortion Centre

Posted on September 01, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "A man was arrested Saturday, August 28, outside a late-term abortion facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after he allegedly threatened to shoot two pro-life women who were offering help to abortion-bound women."

A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam?

Posted on September 01, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about the nature of Islam. We asked six leading thinkers?Anwar Ibrahim, Bernard Lewis, Ed Husain, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Tawfik Hamid and Akbar Ahmed?to weigh in ...

Pro-Abortion Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski Concedes to Pro-Life Joe Miller

Posted on September 01, 2010
LifeNews: "Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of the few pro-abortion Republicans in the U.S. Senate, conceded defeat late Tuesday to pro-life primary election challenge Joe Miller."

Man Rapes Partner in Front of Their Children After She Refuses Abortion Demand

Posted on September 01, 2010
LifeNews: "Pennsylvania man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his partner in front of their children after she refused his demand to get an abortion. Thomas O. Hill reportedly raped his unnamed partner on Sunday after she disclosed that she was newly pregnant...

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Governor Tim Pawlenty Tells Minnesota Agencies to Reject ObamaCare Fund

Posted on September 01, 2010
LifeNews: "Pawlenty issued an executive order Tuesday that directs Minnesota state agencies and departments to not accept taxpayer funds from the federal government to set up new government-run health care programs."

Justice Cynthia Kinser is the first female chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.

Posted on September 01, 2010
Roanoke Times: "Justice Cynthia Kinser was elected by her peers Tuesday to become the next chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, making her the first woman to hold the top post on the state's highest court."

Civil unions on horizon in Illinois?

Posted on September 01, 2010
The Telegraph: "Civil unions for same-sex partners in Illinois may be on the agenda for the November legislative veto session. A leading gay-rights activist said Senate Bill 1716 has garnered enough votes among lawmakers to pass both Democratic-controlled chambers...

Hon. Richard A. Posner: Effective Legal Writing

Posted on September 01, 2010
How Appealing links to the audio.

En Banc Review Granted In Challenge To Orlando?s Park Feeding Ordinance

Posted on September 01, 2010
Religion Clause Blog: "The 3-judge panel in the case, in a 2-1 decision rejected free exercise, free expression and other challenges to Orlando's Large Group Feeding Ordinance that requires a permit to feed more than 25 people in any downtown park, and limits a group to 2 permits per year in any park...

Boys ?being held back by women teachers? as gender stereotypes are reinforced in the classroom

Posted on September 01, 2010
Daily Mail: "Women teachers are holding back boys by reprimanding them for typically male behaviour, according to a study out today. They are reinforcing stereotypes that boys are ?silly? in class, refuse to ?sit nicely like the girls? and are more likely to indulge in ?schoolboy pranks?...

National Religious Moot Court Competition Scheduled For February

Posted on September 01, 2010
Religion Clause Blog: "The 5th annual National Religious Moot Court Competition will be held at George Washington University Law School on Feb. 4-5, 2011 . . . "

Wide Ranging Challenge To Health Care Reform Includes Religion and Abortion Claims

Posted on September 01, 2010
Religion Clause Blog: "A group of individuals and organizations yesterday filed a lawsuit in a Nevada federal court asserting a wide range of constitutional challenges to the requirement in this year's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that all U...

MI: Judge Declines to Dismiss Charges Against Christian Street Preachers for proselytizing Muslims

Posted on September 01, 2010
Christian Post: "A district court judge in Michigan declined to dismiss a case against four street preachers who were arrested back in June after engaging in conversations with attendees of a large Arab festival . . . 'The behavior of these individuals drew and incited a large crowd to a point where they were in violation of city of Dearborn misdemeanor ordinances of breach of peace and failure to obey the lawful order of a police officer,' city officials said in a press release...

City Rents Space For Satanist Exorcism Ceremony

Posted on September 01, 2010
Religion Clause Blog: "Oklahoma City's Parks and Recreation Department, saying that it cannot constitutionally discriminate on the basis of viewpoint in renting out its Civic Center auditoriums, has agreed to rent out its smallest room, seating 100, to a Satanist Church for a public exorcism ceremony...

Brett Harvey on KFUO with Roland Lettner: Acknowledging God in public meetings

Posted on September 01, 2010
ADF attorney Brett Harvey appeared on KFUO with Roland Lettner to discuss Acknowledgedments of God in Public Meetings and the recent ruling in Galloway v. Town of Greece and in the controversy in Lodi, California. | MP3 Audio 24:20 mins

About Brett Harvey

Posted on September 01, 2010
ADF attorney Brett Harvey appeared on KFUO with Roland Lettner to discuss Acknowledgedments of God in Public Meetings and the recent ruling in Galloway v. Town of Greece and in the controversy in Lodi, California. | MP3 Audio 24:20 mins

Matt Bowman on the Mike Gallagher Show: Why are taxpayers still funding failed embryonic stem cell research in this economy?

Posted on September 01, 2010
ADF attorney Matt Bowman appeared on the Mike Gallagher Show to discuss the embryonic stem cell research ruling. | MP3 Audio 7:55 mins | Related ADF Media | Matt Bowman's USA Today article: Matt Bowman v. USA Today: On Embryonic Stem Cell Research

China requires ID to buy mobile phone numbers

Posted on September 01, 2010
AP: "China began requiring identification on Wednesday from anyone purchasing a new mobile phone number in what it says is a bid to stamp out rampant junk messages but that some say gives the government a new tool for monitoring its citizens."

Beck doesn?t want his church ?preach[ing] who to vote for,? but his ?Black Robe? associates do

Posted on September 01, 2010
Media Matters (includes video): ADF, which Dobson co-founded, encouraged pastors to endorse candidates in 2008 and "challenge IRS rules that prohibit tax-exempt churches from engaging in partisan politics." In a September 2008 post onThe Washington Post's On Faith blog, David Waters wrote that the Alliance Defense Fund, which Dobson co-founded, "is recruiting preachers to challenge IRS rules that prohibit tax-exempt churches from engaging in partisan politics, step up to the pulpit ...

Kevin Theriot: Manhattan Declaration ? An Opportunity to Stand or Fall

Posted on September 01, 2010
ADF attorney Kevin Theriot writes at the Speak Up Movement Church Blog cross posted at the Christian Post Advancing Liberty Blog : "Disturbing, but not surprising, is the feedback Colson has received from pastors who refuse to sign the document [The Manhattan Declaration] because it would mean they lose half their congregation...

School speech codes revisited

Posted on September 01, 2010
One News Now: "A new ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has prompted the Alliance Defense Fund to send follow-up letters to five colleges and universities it contacted in April about their problematic 'speech codes.' . . . "The University of the Virgin Islands had a speech policy much like those of the five schools that we sent letters to, and the Third Circuit again said, 'That's unconstitutional,'" reports Casey Mattox, ADF legal counsel...

5 questions about the stem cell ruling

Posted on September 01, 2010
Michael Foust writes at Baptist Press: "A federal judge's ruling has thrust the issue of embryonic stem cell research back into the news. Following are five questions and answers about the decision. -- Did the judge's ruling block all stem cell research? Among the pro-life groups involved in the case are the Alliance Defense Fund, Advocates International and the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ...

3rd UPDATE: Justice Department Seeks Stay Of Stem-Cell Ruling

Posted on September 01, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "The Justice Department filed an emergency motion Tuesday asking a U.S. judge to temporarily stay his ruling last week that blocked the federal government from funding research involving human embryonic stem cells . . . Steven Aden, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund and a lawyer for the challengers, said the government was rehashing arguments that were unsuccessful earlier in the case...

Federal magistrate recommends dismissing states? gun suit

Posted on September 01, 2010
Google News (AP): "A group of states seeking freedom from federal gun laws were dealt a blow Wednesday when a federal magistrate recommended dismissal of a lawsuit launched by gun rights advocates who argue Congress has overstepped its bounds with gun control...

IL Supreme Court Rejects Thomas More Society?s Request for Transfer of Parental Notice Challenge

Posted on September 01, 2010
Christian Newswire: "Yesterday, a divided Illinois Supreme Court denied a request by the Thomas More Society to transfer the legal case pending against the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995 from the Appellate Court to the Supreme Court...

The other Ground Zero Mosque: Flight 93 Islamic Crescent Memorial

Posted on September 01, 2010
Atlas Shrugs: "The other Ground Zero mosque is in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at the site where a group of American heroes, upon hearing from their loved ones that their plane was not being hijacked but being used as a missile by Muslim terrorists to take out the Capitol or the White House, seized control of the aircraft in a life and death struggle...

IL: First mosque to open in Rockford

Posted on September 01, 2010
Herald-Review.com: "A four-story, 6,000-square-foot mosque has taken shape. The brick octagonal building, topped by a golden dome and featuring a green and gold minaret, is the latest addition to the Muslim Community Center, 5921 Darlene Drive. Construction on the $1...

India: Where are the baby girls?

Posted on September 01, 2010
Boston Globe: "It?s illegal in India to determine the sex of an unborn child. But parents who don?t want daughters get around the law."

Same-Sex ?Marriage? Law, One Year Later

Posted on September 01, 2010
Vermont Public Radio (audio) interviews an attorney who advocated for marriage redefinition.

Unmarried cohabitation increases in Tennessee, marriage rate drops 36% in ten years

Posted on September 01, 2010
"More Tennessee couples are opting to try before they buy, living together for years and even raising children together before marriage ? or with no plans to marry at all. The result is a steep drop in the state's marriage rate. While the U.S. marriage rate per thousand dropped 14...

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