Religion & Law

An introduction to transhumanism: Attempting to make a new type of person

Posted on August 31, 2010
E. Christian Brugger, Ph.D. writing at The Culture of Life Foundation: "The ideas of the young international movement known as 'transhumanism' are beginning to characterize the thinking of an increasing number of clinicians and bioethicists. I thought therefore that our readers might profit from a brief introduction to them ...

Chuck Colson: Public schools and the Bible

Posted on August 31, 2010
Chuck Colson writing at The Christian Post: "Many people mistakenly assume using the Bible in a public school is prohibited by law. But in fact, the Supreme Court has actually endorsed using the Bible in public schools . . . And because introducing the Bible to public school students is academically expected and legally supported, our friends at Gateways to Better Education have written a one-page document entitled 'School District Guidelines for the Use of Bible Stories in The Classroom...

Manchester, UK: Town hall chief wants Christian protests of ?gay pride? parade to be outlawed

Posted on August 31, 2010
Manchester Evening News: "Christian protesters who picketed the Pride parade could be banned from the streets during next year?s event. Council chiefs are outraged that around 20 placard-waving demonstrators ? many from the conservative pressure group Christian Voice ? were allowed to disrupt the event...

Abortion profiteers relying on false claims to attack Colorado Personhood Amendment 62

Posted on August 31, 2010
Earned Media: "Personhood Colorado and Colorado Right to Life, co-sponsors of Colorado's Personhood Amendment 62, have discovered that their only opposition, 'Protect Families Protect Choices', is backed by none other than abortion profiteer Planned Parenthood ...

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?Historic Italian Protestant churches agree to bless same-sex couples?

Posted on August 31, 2010
Ekklesia: "The joint synod of Italy's Waldensian and Methodist Protestant churches has, as the denominations' highest governing body, agreed to authorise the blessing of same-sex couples in church under certain conditions."

Small global taxes would make a big difference for world?s ?bottom billion?

Posted on August 31, 2010
Bernard Kouchner, foreign minister of France; Katsuya Okada, foreign minister of Japan; Charles Michel, development cooperation minister of Belgium writing at The Christian Science Monitor: "We are determined to find an effective way to finance development that would be alongside ? and not in place of ? public aid...

UK: ?Conservative minister Crispin Blunt reveals he is gay?

Posted on August 31, 2010
BBC: "Mr Blunt, who is prisons minister in the coalition government, said he had 'decided to come to terms with his homosexuality'."

Court says same-sex couples can?t ?divorce? in Texas

Posted on August 31, 2010
"The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a Dallas judge didn't have jurisdiction to grant a divorce to two Dallas men who wed in Massachusetts. The court also says Texas' same-sex marriage ban is constitutional."

Philippines: Gov?t launches US-designed family planning program

Posted on August 31, 2010
Inquirer.net: "The government has started implementing a new family planning marketing strategy designed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) . . . The US Embassy in Manila has acknowledged Washington?s active role in the Philippine government?s family planning initiatives...

Video ? Alliance Defense Fund Weekly Update ? 2010 August 30

Posted on August 30, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ-dEunfZMw

Will Values Voter?s Prevail in the WV Senate Race?

Posted on August 30, 2010
Engage Family Minute Blog: "This primary election yielded nominations for Gov. Joe Manchin, for the Democratic Party, and John Raese, for the Republican Party. Oh, and for good measure, Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson was nominated too. So, what?s the fallout? Rasmussen reports that the race is quite tight...

Franklin Pierce Law Center Gets New UNH Name

Posted on August 30, 2010
WBZTV: "With approval from two accrediting agencies, Franklin Pierce Law Center is officially being renamed the University of New Hampshire School of Law."

Casino proposed near battlefield splits Gettysburg

Posted on August 30, 2010
AP: "The town where the Civil War's tide-turning battle was waged is fighting dissension in its own ranks, with even hard-core preservationists split over a proposed casino that would rise near the historic battlefield and be named for the line that divided North and South...

U.S. Government Funds Mosque Renovation And Rehabilitation Around The World

Posted on August 30, 2010
NCPA: "Nicole Thompson, a State Department spokeswoman, told the Daily Caller that the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation is a type of diplomatic effort and outreach. "It is helping to preserve our cultural heritage. It is not just to preserve religious structures," Thompson said...

India: Google, Skype to be issued notices

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Hindu: "After Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM), makers of Blackberry, fell in line with the government demands of granting lawful access to its encrypted messages, the government is all set to issue notices to search engine Google, internet phone call provider Skype, Virtual Private Network (VPN) service providers and a few other entities to make available their services to law enforcement agencies...

Planned Parenthood files to block public records after tip from Iowa Board of Medicine

Posted on August 30, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "An open records request for public documents has been denied by the Iowa Medical Board, which tipped off Planned Parenthood of the Heartland that the request for public records had been made. Planned Parenthood then filed a suit against a medical watchdog group to block the release of the documents...

Catholic College Keeps Pro-Abortion Links Up Despite 15,000 Complaints

Posted on August 30, 2010
Christian Newswire: "Well over 15,000 students and parents have politely requested that Alverno College, a Catholic college founded by the School Sisters of St. Francis, delete several web site links that channel students to abortion advocacy groups. However, despite the large number of complaints the links remain up and running ...

CNN: ?U.S. Muslims launch ad to fight ?fear-mongering??

Posted on August 30, 2010
CNN: "The online video is an effort to fight back against 'the rising tide of fear-mongering' resulting from plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan in New York, the group behind it said. . . . "

The Marriage Ideal for Law, but not for Lawyers

Posted on August 30, 2010
Family Restoration Blog: "With these postmodern actions we continually deconstruct the hope of family restoration. Average people and average lawyers disrespecting the microcosmic civilization of lifelong marriage has brought us to the point of astounding attorney applause over the collapse of the rule of law...

As nationalism rises, will the European Union fall?

Posted on August 30, 2010
Charles Kupchan writing in The Washington Post: "The European Union is dying -- not a dramatic or sudden death, but one so slow and steady that we may look across the Atlantic one day soon and realize that the project of European integration that we've taken for granted over the past half-century is no more ...

Alaska Libertarian Party says no to nominating Murkowski

Posted on August 30, 2010
National Journal / Hotline on Call: "Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) will not be on the AK Libertarian Party ballot line this fall, according to the secretary of the party."

Obama builds a big tent . . . for conservatives

Posted on August 30, 2010
John Fund writing in the Wall Street Journal: "[Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' Rally] was yet another demonstration of how the Obama administration's excesses have brought different strands of the conservative movement together . . . In the past, more secular Tea Party types might not have showed up at a religiously-themed event like 'Restoring Honor...

Az. Gov. Jan Brewer condemns State Department report

Posted on August 30, 2010
Politico: "Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer is calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to remove a reference to her state?s immigration law from a report on human rights. In a required report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the State Department said the federal government's challenge to the Arizona law that requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or detain was an example of how the United States is protecting human rights...

GOP lawmaker warns U.S. faces ?lost decade? because of debt

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Hill: "The U.S. economy faces a 'lost decade' like the one Japan suffered through in the 1990s if the government continues to spend and rack up debt, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Monday."

Under the U.S. Supreme Court: The way of the cross

Posted on August 30, 2010
UPI: "Nowhere is the culture war more apparent than in battles over religious displays. The latest skirmish was fought earlier this month in Denver, where a federal appeals court said crosses erected along Utah highways as memorials to fallen Highway Patrol officers were in violation of the First Amendment's ban on the establishment of religion ...

Secret showdown set for Islamic charity

Posted on August 30, 2010
Politico: "One of the nation?s most prominent Muslim organizations, the North American Islamic Trust, is set to face off with the U.S. government in a federal appeals court Monday. The reputation of the group, known as NAIT, may well hang in the balance, but don?t bother trying to attend the court session this afternoon before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans...

Steve Aden on the Zeb Bell Show: Court ruling puts embryo research on hold

Posted on August 30, 2010
ADF attorney Steve Aden appeared on the Zeb Bell Show to discuss this: Federal court halts Obama administration?s embryonic stem cell policy | MP3 17:22 mins

Planned Parenthood blocks release of papers on telemed abortion practitioner

Posted on August 30, 2010
LifeNews: "The Iowa-based Planned Parenthood affiliate that has the nation's first abortion practitioner overseeing the new telemed abortion concept has filed a lawsuit to block a pro-life group's request for papers on the abortion practitioner's medical license...

Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 media contributions

Posted on August 30, 2010
Washington Examiner: "Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics ...

Islamist rebels launch deadly attack on Chechen president?s village

Posted on August 30, 2010
"The situation in the North Caucasus is now much more difficult than [Vladimir] Putin or [Dmitry] Medvedev imagine it. We are talking about a growing Islamist opposition and hundreds or even thousands of militants in Chechnya alone, with more young men joining them up in the mountains...

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