Religion & Law

New Jersey Democrats to hold September vote to restore Planned Parenthood funds

Posted on August 27, 2010
LifeNews: "New Jersey Democrats in the state legislature have set a September 20 vote to attempt to override a veto Governor Chris Christie issued on a bill restoring the family planning funds Christie cut from the state budget. Christ said the money shouldn't go to the Planned Parenthood abortion business...

CBN News: The Embryonic Stem Cell Research Ruling

Posted on August 27, 2010
ADF attorney Steve Aden is quoted in the video linked at YouTube below.  | Related ADF Media Information Page | http://www.youtube.com/v/PbHYvw3Ry0w?fs=1&hl=en_US

Poll: 57% of Americans oppose tax funding of embryonic stem cell research

Posted on August 27, 2010
LifeNews: "Only 33% of U.S. voters believe that taxpayer money should be spent on embryonic stem cell research, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fifty-seven percent of Americans say funding for the research, which has never helped any patients and requires the destruction of human life to facilitate, should be left to the private sector...

Snapshot of economy about to get a lot bleaker

Posted on August 27, 2010
OneNewsNow: "The government is about to confirm what many people have felt for some time: The economy barely has a pulse. The Commerce Department on Friday will revise its estimate for economic growth in the April-to-June period and Wall Street economists forecast it will be cut almost in half, to a 1...

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Australian police, Facebook crack child porn ring

Posted on August 27, 2010
Associated Press: "An international child pornography ring that operated on Facebook has been brought down with the social networking site's support, Australian police said Friday."

UK researchers: Prisons breeding new terrorists

Posted on August 27, 2010
Associated Press: "The Royal United Services Institute said in a paper published Friday that criminals who've shared cells with jailed terrorists may also pose a risk if they've embraced radical ideologies. Michael Clarke, director of RUSI, claimed that one in 10 Muslim prisoners in high-security jails had been 'successfully targeted' by jihadists...

UN panel: minorities in Iran face discrimination

Posted on August 27, 2010
Associated Press: "The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination says minorities in the Islamic republic don't enjoy the same rights to free expression, health and housing as other ethnic groups."

Wisconsin denied military ballot law waiver

Posted on August 27, 2010
Associated Press: "Massachusetts, Delaware and Rhode Island were granted waivers Friday to ignore a new federal law meant to protect the voting rights of deployed troops and other Americans overseas, while Wisconsin was denied in its request . . . Not getting the waiver calls into question how Wisconsin will comply with deadlines that election officials have said can't be met...

?Wheat, weed, and ObamaCare: How the Commerce Clause made Congress all-powerful?

Posted on August 27, 2010
reason.tv: "How did a clause intended as a restriction on states wind up giving Congress a green light to regulate noncommercial, local, and purely private behavior? How will ObamaCare stand up against the legal challenges brought by the states? Legal titans John Eastman (Chapman University Law Professor) and Erwin Chemerinsky (Founding Dean, University of California, Irvine School of Law) slug it out to to determine whether or not Congress has been abusing the commerce clause...

O Centro case finally dismissed by Federal District Court

Posted on August 27, 2010
Religion Clause: "In 2006, in Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao Do Vegetal, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government cannot block a New Mexico church from using a hallucinogenic tea for religious purposes, and remanded the case for further proceedings...

NY: Borough Hall?s first-ever Iftar dinner

Posted on August 27, 2010
SILive.com: "Iftar is the evening meal during which Muslims break their daily fast during the month of Ramadan. Around 50 people from the Island's five mosques attended Wednesday's event, staged in a Borough Hall conference room." Via Religion Clause.

Ryan T. Anderson: Obama?s illegal stem-cell policy

Posted on August 27, 2010
Ryan T. Anderson writing at The Public Discourse: "Bad ethics, bad science, bad politics, and bad law. Normally it takes only three strikes to be out. But not even this fourth will mark the death knell for this deadly science: while the ruling temporarily halts the federal funding of embryo-destructive stem-cell research, it does nothing to prevent the destruction of human embryos in privately funded research...

Nine Justices and Ten Commandments

Posted on August 27, 2010
Linda Greenhouse writing at The New York Times / Opinionator: "Believe it or not, a familiar Ten Commandments case is now heading back to the Supreme Court . . . the case could provide a window on how committed the Roberts court is to the project that some justices have clearly embraced, that of carving out more space for religion in the public square...

Teachers and their unions

Posted on August 27, 2010
David W. Kirkpatrick writing at Education News: "Perhaps the epitome of [a] union attitude came in Colorado when a package of education reform legislation was introduced in the state legislature and the Colorado Education Association promptly announced it would oppose each and every one...

UK: Children?s grasp of the 3Rs at its worst in a decade

Posted on August 27, 2010
Education News:"Almost 105,000 seven-year-old pupils fail to reach the writing standards expected of their age this spring, struggling to use capital letters and spell words . . . One in six, or about 84,000, failed to reach expected standards in reading and nearly one in ten - 58,700 - failed to make the grade in maths...

Texas fights White House global-warming power grab

Posted on August 27, 2010
Peggy Venable writing in The Washington Times: "President Obama's EPA is already well down the path to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, something the act was not designed to do . . . The EPA, determined to move forward anyway, is attempting to rewrite the Clean Air Act administratively via a 'tailoring rule,' which would reduce the number of regulated sources...

Concerned Women applaud FCC?s appeal of indecency ruling

Posted on August 27, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "Concerned Women for America's (CWA) CEO Penny Nance applauded the FCC's move saying: 'We are pleased to see the FCC is standing up for families and the agency's power to regulate indecency granted by "We the People." CWA's half-million members around the country called on FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to appeal the decision and we stand with the FCC as they ask the Second Circuit to reconsider its wrongful decision...

Arkansas panel hears complaints on lotto machines

Posted on August 27, 2010
Associated Press: "Vending machines that dispense lottery tickets are headed to Arkansas retailers, after a legislative committee reviewed rules governing the machines but took no action."

Washington Post slanders marriage supporters

Posted on August 27, 2010
ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence writing at Inside the Issues: "The Washington Post today flung a new slander at the supporters of marriage ? that millions of American voters who overwhelmingly approved 21 state constitutional amendments defining marriage as one man and one woman in the 2004 and 2006 elections were callously duped by Karl Rove and the Bush White House to manipulate them to go to the polls and vote for Republican candidates...

Greg Baylor: Endowed with inalienable rights . . . by whom? The State Dept. report to the UN

Posted on August 27, 2010
The State Department has submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in conjunction with something called the Universal Periodic Review . . . The very first line of the report states: 'The story of the United States of America is one guided by universal values shared the world over?that all are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights...

Richard Land: Court upholds the rule of law in stem cell case

Posted on August 27, 2010
Richard Land writing in The Christian Post: "I am delighted the court?s Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth made the decision to uphold the rule of law as passed by the Congress of the United States, the people?s elected representatives. In the case, two scientists, several other individuals, Nightlight Christian Adoptions and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations with the support of the Alliance Defense Fund sought to prevent the Obama administration?s Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research from taking effect...

Editorial: Stem-cell research must continue

Posted on August 27, 2010
The Republican (Masslive.com) editorial: "We hope that the judge?s ruling blocking federal funds for experiments created with embryos left over from fertility treatments will be overturned . . . The ruling drew praise, however, from the Alliance Defense Fund, a group of Christian attorneys who helped with the lawsuit filed by two researchers against the expanded rules ...

Greg Baylor: Are you sitting down? 9th Circuit delivers favorable religious freedom decision

Posted on August 27, 2010
ADF Attorney Gregory S. Baylor writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "Yes, believe it or not, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a favorable religious freedom decision. On Monday, the court held that World Vision is in fact a religious organization and thus allowed to fire three employees who had repudiated the Christian beliefs they once held...

UK: Pensioner tells how he beat ?locked in? syndrome after massive stroke

Posted on August 27, 2010
Telegraph: "Graham Miles, 66, said that through sheer willpower he regained the use of his body after he was left completely paralysed except for his eyes by a stroke in the stem of the brain which connects it to the body."

NY gov slammed for ?westernized? Muslims comment

Posted on August 27, 2010
Associated Press: "Muslim leaders in the United States are criticizing New York Gov. David Paterson for his description of the developers of a mosque planned near ground zero as peaceful, 'almost westernized' Muslims."

It?s the shariah, stupid

Posted on August 27, 2010
Deroy Murdock writing in The Washington Times: "Far more important is what would happen inside this mosque. That should determine if it should be even closer to Ground Zero or if it even should open anywhere in America . . . Does Mr. Rauf embrace such brutality? Who knows? But the fact that he wants the United States to be 'Shariah-compliant' rather than Shariah-free should worry every liberty-loving American...

U.S. staff told to send children out of Mexican city

Posted on August 27, 2010
Reuters: "The U.S. government told staff at its consulate in Monterrey to send their children out of the northern Mexican city where drug violence has been escalating, the consulate said on Friday."

Thomas More Society files lawsuit in Michigan to uncover truth about notorious abortionist Dr. Alberto Hodari

Posted on August 27, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "Yesterday, Thomas More Society attorneys filed a lawsuit to compel disclosure of public records that indicate why a doctor in Michigan was not punished for tossing aborted fetuses and patient records in the trash. Robert Fleming, local counsel for the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Monica Migliorino Miller, Ph...

Federal religious discrimination suit filed against Dixmoor, Ill.

Posted on August 27, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "Today, the Power of Praise Worship Center Church (PPWC) filed a lawsuit against the Village of Dixmoor for violating a Federal land use law . . . The suit alleges that Dixmoor's Code Enforcement Officer, Fred Cody, took matters into his own hands when he forced the church out of the building they were renting, citing that the church was in an area not zoned for religious use...

Colleen Carroll Campbell: Abortion proponents distort the meaning of personhood

Posted on August 27, 2010
Colleen Carroll Campbell writes at STLToday.com: "After months of unsuccessfully fighting against Senate Bill 793, a new Missouri law that requires clinics to offer ultrasounds and information about fetal development to women seeking abortions, Planned Parenthood officials and their ilk are trying a new tack...

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