Religion & Law

Stem cell research court appeal by U.S. Justice Department upholds experiments

Posted on August 25, 2010
Associated Content: "'The American people should not be forced to pay for experiments ? prohibited by federal law ? that destroy human life. The court is simply enforcing an existing law passed by Congress that prevents Americans from paying another penny for needless research on human embryos,' senior legal counsel of the group, [Steven H...

Polish homosexuals target new textbook

Posted on August 25, 2010
Yahoo (Reuters): "A gay rights group urged the Polish government on Wednesday to withdraw a book authorized for use in secondary schools that it says portrays homosexuality as an illness that can be cured."

Pro-life group loses 7th Circuit challenge to judicial campaign ethics rule

Posted on August 25, 2010
Law.com: "The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed on a technicality a lower court that upheld the state's Code of Judicial Conduct, which bars judges and candidates in judicial elections from making statements that are 'inconsistent with the impartial performance of judicial office...

Washington Post: The case against stronger abortion regulations in Virginia

Posted on August 25, 2010
Washington Post editorial: "But do the women of the commonwealth need additional protection? Has the state experienced a spike in abortion-related complications, including those that, as Mr. Marshall suggests, imperil future pregnancies? No, and no. State medical and health boards already provide oversight of abortion facilities and the medical personnel who perform roughly 25,000 abortions each year...

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?Cheyenne gay couple challenges Wyo. marriage law?

Posted on August 25, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle (AP): "A gay couple has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman . . . They are asking U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson to block Wyoming from enforcing any laws that block gays and lesbians from access to civil marriage...

Pro-abortion Republican Lisa Murkowski losing to pro-life Joe Miller in Alaska

Posted on August 25, 2010
LifeNews: "The Republican Party is predominantly pro-life and one of just a handful of pro-abortion Republicans in the U.S. Senate may have lost her bid party's nomination for her re-election campaign. Sen Lisa Murkowski is currently losing to pro-life candidate Joe Miller, after Tuesday night's primary...

NJ: Lakewood Orthodox Jewish leaders want abuse accusations addressed by religious authorities first

Posted on August 25, 2010
Asbury Park (NJ) Press: "One man's criminal accusation that a teacher molested his young son has widened the rift in the Orthodox Jewish community over where religious rights stop and the justice system begins. Some inside the tight-knit enclave praised the child's father for bypassing religious protocols last year and reporting the alleged attack first to Ocean County prosecutors...

Democrat pushes bill to fund embryonic stem cell research after ruling

Posted on August 25, 2010
LifeNews: "Representative Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, is responding to a judge's decision issuing a temporary injunction against the funding President Barack Obama mandated through his executive order . . . Before the ruling, DeGette had filed legislation intended to codify Obama's executive order and overturn the Dickey-Wicker law preventing taxpayer funding involving the destruction of human embryos the judge used to stop Obama's order ...

Controversial Seton Hall ?gay marriage? course will go on as scheduled

Posted on August 25, 2010
Star-Ledger: "It appears Seton Hall University will offer a controversial course on gay marriage over the objections of Newark Archbishop John J. Myers, according to the professor scheduled to teach the class. The undergraduate seminar course ? called 'The Politics of Gay Marriage' ? is to begin Tuesday with about two dozen students, said W...

72 illegal immigrants found dead at Mexico/Texas border

Posted on August 25, 2010
Associated Press: "A survivor has told police that 72 people found dead at a ranch near the Mexican border with Texas were migrants kidnapped by an armed group, a federal official said Wednesday."

Police: NY cabbie is asked if he?s Muslim, stabbed

Posted on August 25, 2010
Associated Press: "A drunken passenger riding in a New York City taxi cab attacked the driver after asking him if he was Muslim, police said Wednesday. The driver told police that when he answered yes, Michael Enright pulled out a folding hand tool, reached into the front seat and slashed him...

NY mayor: Stopping mosque compromises terror fight

Posted on August 25, 2010
Findlaw (AP): "Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivered an impassioned speech at an event marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, saying that not allowing a proposed mosque to be built near ground zero would be 'compromising our commitment to fighting terror with freedom...

Freedom of religion does not mean tolerance for treason

Posted on August 25, 2010
Bryan Fischer writing at American Family Association / Rightly Concerned: "Our enemy is authentic Islam and our enemies are devout Muslims who actually believe in their holy scripture and are determined to follow the sacred teachings of their god. They are our enemies for the simple reason that their god commands them to kill us...

Afghan elections: Record number of women stand for parliament

Posted on August 25, 2010
The Guardian: "A record number of women are running in Afghanistan's critical parliamentary elections next month despite many being inundated with threatening phone calls, including death threats from insurgents."

UN: Mexico most dangerous in Americas for press

Posted on August 25, 2010
Associated Press: "Mexico is the most dangerous country in the Americas for journalists and the violence against reporters may increase, investigators from the United Nations and the Organization of American States said Tuesday."

U.S. funds restoration of global Islamic sites

Posted on August 25, 2010
"This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents."

FLDS to target Texas? bigamy laws

Posted on August 25, 2010
Attorneys for Wendell Loy Nielsen . . . said at a hearing Tuesday they intend to challenge the Texas bigamy laws their client is charged with violating under amended indictments."

Court reinstates evangelist?s defamation suit against ABC

Posted on August 25, 2010
OC Weekly: "[T]he Ninth Circuit panel (dominated by two Democrat presidential appointees) determined that Judge Klausner had prematurely ended the suit because Stossel and ABC presented Price's 'statement in a misleading context, thereby changing the viewer's understanding of the speaker's words...

Egypt: Prosecutor General refers Islamic books publisher to State Security Court

Posted on August 25, 2010
The Daily News Egypt: "Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud on Monday referred the publisher of Islamic books to a State Security Court on charges of contempt of the Christian religion. Publisher Ahmed Abdallah Abo-Islam, was charged for accusing Christians of fabricating the Bible and threatening social stability and security...

Devastating series of attacks across Iraq kill 55

Posted on August 25, 2010
Associated Press: "Bombers and gunmen killed 55 Iraqis in two dozen attacks spanning the country Wednesday, mostly targeting security forces in seemingly coordinated strikes the day after the number of U.S. troops fell below 50,000 for the first time since the start of the war...

Alaska GOP Sen. Murkowski in jeopardy

Posted on August 25, 2010
Associated Press: "With 98 percent of election day precincts counted, Murkowski trailed Joe Miller by 1,960 votes out of more than 91,000 counted. The race was too close to call, with as many as 16,000 absentee votes and an undetermined number of provisional or questioned ballots, remaining to be counted starting on Aug...

Strategies for putting the brakes on ObamaCare

Posted on August 25, 2010
Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, writing in the Wall Street Journal: "Here are six key strategies that a Republican Congress could employ to put on the brakes . . . Defund it . . . Dismantle it . . . Delay it . . . Disapprove regulations ...

Third day of fighting Islamists in Somalia?s capital leaves 8 dead

Posted on August 25, 2010
Associated Press: "Fighting in Somalia's capital flared for a third straight day Wednesday, killing eight people and pushing the week's death toll past 80 as insurgents tried to force government troops back toward the presidential palace, officials said...

Heritage Foundation: White House announced deadline gives enemy sustenance in Afghanistan

Posted on August 25, 2010
Mike Brownfield writing at The Heritage Foundation / The Foundry: "General Conway confirmed what Heritage Foundation analysts have been warning about for the last nine months, that the deadline is 'giving our enemy sustenance.' Conway revealed that indeed the U...

Frank Gaffney: The ?end of the beginning? on sharia?

Posted on August 25, 2010
Frank Gaffney writing at Townhall: "[T]here was something pivotal about the fact that throngs of ordinary Americans - many of them family or friends of those who died on 9/11 - had come together to stand for hours in an intermittent rain not just to contest the construction of a megamosque at a wholly inappropriate location, but in informed opposition to the impetus behind that mosque: shariah...

Marybeth Hicks: Academy Awards, and the winner is: sperm donor

Posted on August 25, 2010
Marybeth Hicks writing at Townhall: "Next year?s Academy Awards program ought to have a new category: Best Portrayal of a Sperm Donor. At least, that?s the role that?s being cast with increasing ? and alarming ? frequency."

Walter E. Williams: ?Who cares about our future??

Posted on August 25, 2010
Walter E. Williams writing at Townhall: "In my opinion, it takes a special form of callousness and disregard for the welfare of future generations of Americans for today's senior citizens to fight against [Social Security] reform. Nobody's talking about abolition of federal senior programs...

Terry Jeffrey: Why does Obama tell Muslims America is nation of ?non-believers??

Posted on August 25, 2010
Terry Jeffrey writing at Townhall: "Why has President Barack Obama on at least two occasions told specifically Muslim audiences that America is a nation of -- among other things -- 'non-believers'? . . . The Census Bureau's official Statistical Abstract of the United States says a miniscule 0...

Pete du Pont: Washington is spending the country into economic decline

Posted on August 25, 2010
Pete du Pont writing in the Wall Street Journal: "If we continue the very large annual increases in federal spending that our current government has pushed--Washington is estimated to spend $30,543 per household this year, $5,000 more than two years ago--our economy will face serious decline, if not collapse ...

WSJ: Human rights kowtow at the UN: US accomplices corruption

Posted on August 25, 2010
Wall Street Journal editorial: "In a 29-page report submitted last Friday to the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Administration offered a summary of the status of human rights in the U.S. . . . For many years, the cause of human rights has been systematically corrupted by people who cannot distinguish between the rights themselves and their own political hobbyhorses...

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