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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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After ACLU complaint about Catholic workers refusing to perform abortions, legal fund offers help

Posted on August 23, 2010
Catholic News Agency: "Responding to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) request for a government investigation into and action against Catholic hospitals which refuse to provide abortions, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has said it will offer pro bono legal help to any hospital or individual threatened for refusing to perform an abortion...

HOA, residents fight over flag

Posted on August 23, 2010
9 News: "Eric Smith says he's always been fascinated by the Gadsden flag. On a yellow background, the flag features a rattlesnake poised to strike and the statement: 'Don't Tread on Me; . . . Last week, he received a letter from the East York Villas Homeowner's Association stating: 'Tea Party flags are not permitted...

New York mosque controversy worries Muslims overseas

Posted on August 23, 2010
Los Angeles Times: "Many Muslims abroad are miffed by the stateside debate, largely conducted by non-Muslims, that has grown so loud as to become a topic of discussion on talk shows and newspapers from Bali to Bahrain, from Baghdad to Berlin. The proposed Cordoba House has become a symbol of America's fraught relations with the world's 1...

Many more now following mosque controversy ? and don?t like it

Posted on August 23, 2010
Rasmussen: "A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 85% of U.S. voters say they are now following news stories about the mosque planned near Ground Zero. That?s a 34-point jump from a month ago when only 51% said they were following the story ...

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52% concerned about safety of vaccines

Posted on August 23, 2010
Rasmussen: "Vaccinations are common requirements for children all over the country in order to attend public school and college. However, half of American adults (52%) say they are concerned about the safety of vaccinations for children, including 27% who are Very Concerned...

Feds file complaint against Fla. abortion protester requesting $10,000 fine

Posted on August 23, 2010
Miami Herald: "The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint in South Florida alleging that an anti-abortion protester violated federal law prohibiting the blockage of clinic entrances." | Complaint in Holder v. Pine, 9:10-cv-80971-KLR

Doug Giles: Why do feminists attack Sarah and not sharia?

Posted on August 23, 2010
Doug Giles writing at Townhall: "Given Islam?s enslavement of women and the Sharia erection of the Cordoba Initiative?s chief con man, Abdul Rauf, you?d think N.O.W. and their ilk would now be raising more Cain about this Ground Zero Mosque than they are about Sarah Palin ...

More Texans are turning to home schooling

Posted on August 23, 2010
Houston Chronicle: "Over the past five years, the number of Texans opting to home school has grown about 20 percent to an estimated 120,000 families and 300,000 children, according to the Texas Home School Coalition. 'The economy does have an impact on folks,' said Tim Lambert, president of the coalition...

Obama appoints another homosexual official

Posted on August 23, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Thursday, President Obama announced his intent to recess appoint four nominees to various administration posts; Richard Sorian, one of the appointees, is openly homosexual. Sorian, a former senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will be the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the HHS...

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann: Ground Zero Mosque: The real issue is the effort to advance Sharia law

Posted on August 23, 2010
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann writing at Townhall: "The proposed mosque near to ground zero is not really a religious institution. It would be -- as many mosques throughout the nation are -- a terrorist recruitment, indoctrination and training center...

Pro-life group seeks investigation of forcing students to pay for abortions

Posted on August 23, 2010
LifeNews: "A national pro-life student group is seeking a federal or state investigation into a situation it exposed about how students who attend public universities in North Carolina may have been forced to pay for abortions under the required health insurance plan...

?Mexican Catholics, gay rights protesters face off?

Posted on August 23, 2010
Associated Press: "Gay rights activists and a group of Roman Catholics in Mexico have yelled insults at each other during dueling demonstrations over same-sex marriage."

Passions rise at dueling NYC mosque demonstrations

Posted on August 23, 2010
Associated Press: "Hundreds of impassioned demonstrators - all waving American flags, but separated into two groups by police - descended on the site of the proposed mosque near ground zero, with opponents chanting, 'No mosque, no way!' and supporters shouting, 'We say no to racist fear!'"

US soldiers allegedly ?pressured? to attend commanding General?s religious concerts

Posted on August 23, 2010
Religion Clause: "Talk To Action reported Thursday on a series of Commanding General's Spiritual Fitness Concerts at Fort Eustice and Fort Lee, both Army bases in Virginia. Supposedly attendance is voluntary, but soldiers feel pressured to attend."

Huffington Post: Q&A with Pastor Fred Phelps

Posted on August 23, 2010
Joshua Kors writing at The Huffington Post: "The Rapture is coming, says Pastor Fred Phelps, and the country is drowning in the sin of homosexuality. For 55 years, Phelps has led the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, which gained notoriety in recent years for picketing the funerals of soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

Crime (sex) and punishment (stoning)

Posted on August 23, 2010
New York Times: "The punishment is rooted in Islamic legal traditions, known as hadiths, that designate it as the penalty for adultery. While the penalty may seem savage to Western eyes, scholars say it is consistent with the values of Arabian society at the time of Muhammad, Islam?s founding prophet ...

Milton church files injunction and lawsuit against Sheriff Wendell Hall and jail

Posted on August 23, 2010
Santa Rosa's Press Gazette: "The Federal lawsuit brought by Pastor Larry Webb on behalf of the First Apostolic Church seeks to prohibit Sheriff Wendell Hall of Santa Rosa County, from barring the Church?s faith based alcohol substance abuse program from the Santa Rosa County Jail...

Kazakhstan bonds with Sharia-compliant finance

Posted on August 23, 2010
The National: "Last month, the emerging central Asian oil giant dropped plans to issue a US$750 million (Dh2.75 billion) eurobond, while proceeding with plans to issue a $500m Islamic bond ? its first sovereign issuance in a decade."

Resolution opens door to dialogue about Supreme Court, security

Posted on August 23, 2010
Washington Post: "On May 3, the court decreed that as of the next day, visitors would no longer be allowed to ascend the 44 marble steps, pass under the grand promise chiseled on the pediment -- Equal Justice Under Law -- and enter through the court's massive, ornamental bronze doors ...

If there?s no cross, is there still a case?

Posted on August 23, 2010
The Washington Post: "The cross, a version of which has sat atop Sunrise Rock since World War I veterans erected it more than 75 years ago as a memorial, disappeared May 9. Nothing but bolts remained where the 6 1/2 -foot cross, made of welded white pipes, once stood ...

?Perry v. Schwarzenegger: California becomes the latest battleground for gay marriage rights?

Posted on August 23, 2010
Beaufort County Now: "As [Douglas Napier], an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund who defended Proposition 8, commented: 'The whole nation is watching, and the whole nation should be quaking to think that a single judge sitting in California can reverse the will of 7 million voters...

Roger Kiska: Crackdown on homeschooling in the near future?

Posted on August 23, 2010
ADF Attorney Roger Kiska writing at The Christian Post / Advancing Religious Liberty: "A couple months ago in June, attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund and the Home School Legal Defense Association filed Johansson v. Sweden with the European Court of Human Rights so that that the Swedish government will return a seven-year-old homeschooled boy to his parents...

State license not required for private school

Posted on August 23, 2010
OneNewsNow: "The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) has received assurance from the Alabama Community College System that it will no longer make demands on Bethany Divinity College and Seminary to cease offering its associate and bachelor programs in religion, ministry, theological studies, and Bible...

Tom Minnery: Bloomberg?s ?tolerance? hypocrisy: Why does the mayor welcome the mosque and fight small churches?

Posted on August 23, 2010
"Mayor Bloomberg was eloquent in his defense of religious freedom when he spoke up for the mosque near the World Trade Center site. We wish his fervor extended to the small church congregations . . . . . . The Bronx Household of Faith got its start in 1971, in a poor neighborhood not far from Yankee Stadium...

Ruling overturning Prop 8 shaped for higher courts?

Posted on August 23, 2010
The Christian Century: "'At bottom, our strategy here is, and has always been, that in this country we should respect the rights of the people when they do what they have always done: vote based on their religious and moral convictions,' [ADF Attorney Jim Campbell] said...

Utah trooper crosses unconstitutional

Posted on August 23, 2010
WJBK Fox 2: "A Federal appeals court says large crosses along roads in memory of Utah state troopers killed in the line of duty are unconstitutional . . . The Alliance Defense Fund, a coalition of Christian attorneys released a statement shortly after the decision, saying, 'One Atheist group's agenda shouldn't diminish the sacrifice made by Utah Highway Patrol Officers and their families...

Timothy Tracey: New Supreme Court appointment could surprise on religion, freedoms

Posted on August 23, 2010
Timothy Tracey, Naples/Associate Professor of Law, writing at the Naples Daily News: "Yet for all her furor over the military?s use of Harvard?s Office of Career Services, Kagan never overturned the law school's decision to allow the Christian Legal Society to advertise religiously-restricted jobs...

Domestic partnership registry challenged again

Posted on August 23, 2010
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "Supporters of Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions are seeking for the second time to have the state's domestic partnership registry declared unconstitutional . . . The plaintiffs, who are being represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, argue that they're harmed by the registry because it costs taxpayer money to administer...

Call for papers, AALS annual meeting

Posted on August 23, 2010
Orin Kerr writing at The Volokh Conspiracy: "I just wanted to remind lawprof readers that several sections of the AALS have a Call for Papers out for its January 2011 Meeting in San Francisco."

US ?admits? human rights shortcomings in UN report

Posted on August 23, 2010
"High unemployment rates, hate crime, poverty, poor housing, lack of access to health care and discriminatory hiring practices are among the challenges the report identified as affecting blacks, Latinos, Muslims, South Asians, Native Americans and gays and lesbians in the United States...

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