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Advocates "religious freedom", though not a strong separation of church and state.
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Andrew McCarthy: ?Intolerance is not just part of al-Qaeda, it is part of Islam?

Posted on August 17, 2010
"In an Islamic country like Saudi Arabia, where they are in a position to impose sharia in full, that is exactly what they do. In other places, the degree of imposition depends on relative Islamic strength, and it increases as that strength increases...

Ed Whelan: Some reflections on 9th Circuit stay order

Posted on August 17, 2010
". . . [D]espite their massive advantage in resources, Olson and Boies have lost to Cooper and his team on every issue that has been decided by any court other than Walker?s."

Lesbian teen sues Mississippi school district over yearbook photo

Posted on August 17, 2010
Clarion Ledger: "The Wesson student who chose to wear a tuxedo rather than the customary girl?s drape for her senior portrait has sued her former school for leaving her out of the yearbook."

Documents show botched abortions hurt women more frequently than believed

Posted on August 17, 2010
LifeNews: "A pro-life group released new documents today from a former abortion facility staffer showing two women injured medically by botched abortions in Columbus, Ohio in the last two months. The organization says it and other documents show women are injured more frequently than most people understand...

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Obama undaunted by fallout from mosque remarks

Posted on August 17, 2010
Boston.com (AP): "President Barack Obama isn't worried about the furor unleashed by his comments on a planned mosque near Ground Zero, a spokesman said Tuesday."

Medical treatment carries possible side effect of limiting homosexuality

Posted on August 17, 2010
Los Angeles Times: "A hormonal treatment to prevent ambiguous genitalia can now be offered to women who may be carrying such infants. It's not without health risks, but to its critics those are of small consequence compared with this notable side effect: The treatment might reduce the likelihood that a female with the condition will be homosexual...

Palm Center: Women are the overwhelming recipients of DADT discharges

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Washington Post / Federal Eye: "Women account for 14 percent of Army soldiers but received 48 percent of the Army's 'don't ask' discharges in 2009, the study said. Six percent of the Marine Corps is female, but women accounted for 23 percent of its discharges...

Judge: State ban on protests at military funerals unconstitutional

Posted on August 17, 2010
KYTX (CNN): "Missouri's tight restrictions on protests and picketing outside military funerals were tossed out by a federal judge Monday, over free speech concerns . . . The laws, said the Kansas City-based judge, 'could have the effect of criminalizing speech the mourners want to hear, including speech from counter-protesters to plaintiffs' [the Westboro Church's] message...

UK: Two registrars subjected to investigation over beliefs

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Christian Institute: "Two registrars at Lambeth Council are under investigation because they swapped shifts in order to accommodate their religious beliefs over homosexual civil partnerships."

Top German Court: Same sex partnerships have same inheritance rights as married heterosexuals

Posted on August 17, 2010
Gay couples in Germany who have formally registered their partnerships are entitled to the same inheritance rights as married couples, the country's top court said Tuesday."

?Mexico court upholds ?gay adoption? law; more tolerant than US??

Posted on August 17, 2010
Christian Science Monitor: "In Mexico City, on the same day that a US federal appeals court put same-sex weddings on hold, the nation's Supreme Court upheld a law that allows gay couples in the capital to adopt children. The gay adoption decision comes a week after the court upheld the constitutionality in general of gay marriage, after it was granted in Mexico City last year...

Mexico drug violence also hitting churches, prelate says

Posted on August 17, 2010
CNN: "As one of the highest officials in the Mexican Catholic Church, Monsignor Victor Rene Rodriguez has been receiving the alarming reports from all over the nation . . . Rodriguez points to states like Chihuahua, the most violent in Mexico. Of the 28,000 drug-related deaths in the last four years, 40 percent have happened in this border state...

Pentagon cites concerns in China military growth

Posted on August 17, 2010
New York Times: "China has increased spending on a military that is becoming larger and more effective even as Beijing has rebuffed exchanges with the Defense Department that could improve stability, according to a Pentagon study released Monday."

NY governor to meet with NYC mosque developers

Posted on August 17, 2010
Associated Press: "New York Gov. David Paterson expects to meet soon with developers of a proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero."

Ala. seminary freed to issue religious degrees after help from ADF

Posted on August 17, 2010
"State had ordered divinity college, seminary to stop offering degrees despite agency?s lack of authority."

CNN omits earlier Christian history of Cordoba Mosque

Posted on August 17, 2010
"The building was begun in approximately AD 600 as the Christian Visigothic church of St. Vincent."

Ed Meese: Prop. 8 ruling ignores precedent, evidence and common sense

Posted on August 17, 2010
"This opinion is arbitrary and capricious, and its alarming legal methodology and overtly policy-driven tenor are too extreme to stand."

Fallout continues from ELCA?s ?gay? clergy decision as Lutheran churches leave

Posted on August 17, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "The departure of several more congregations in central Illinois from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has once again highlighted how the denomination?s decision to approve active homosexual clergy has triggered a slow, steady bleeding of congregations...

Preservation group backs Gettysburg casino

Posted on August 17, 2010
WTOP: "Proponents of a project to convert Gettysburg's Eisenhower Conference Center into a gambling casino received new support from a surprising corner -- the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association."

An eerie silence in the marriage fight

Posted on August 17, 2010
Kathleen Gilbert writing at LifeSiteNews: "Speaking with LifeSiteNews.com after the rally, Brown expressed frustration at the timidity of marriage supporters, and the slow abandonment of even conservative media, which has begun shying away from tackling the difficult issue...

Poll: Voters say no to abortions on military bases, repealing DADT

Posted on August 17, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "A new survey commissioned by the Military Culture Coalition (MCC) indicates that American voters would prefer to keep in place the 1993 law banning homosexuals serving in the military. The poll also indicated that U.S. voters oppose allowing abortion on military bases...

Ross Douthat: Islam in two Americas

Posted on August 17, 2010
Ross Douthat writing in The New York Times:"There?s an America where it doesn?t matter what language you speak, what god you worship, or how deep your New World roots run . . . But there?s another America as well, one that understands itself as a distinctive culture, rather than just a set of political propositions ...

K.T. McFarland: 3 fundamental questions about the Ground Zero mosque

Posted on August 17, 2010
K.T. McFarland writing at Fox News: "First, might it become a recruitment station for terrorists? . . . In the Islamic tradition they build monuments to commemorate their great victories . . . So while some see a mosque near Ground Zero as a commemoration for innocents who died; others could claim it as the place where Islamic terrorists triumphed ...

48% say it?s too easy to get an abortion in America

Posted on August 17, 2010
Rasmussen: "Nearly half (48%) of U.S. voters continue to believe that an abortion is too easy to obtain in this country, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey."

Frank Gaffney: Obama?s ?teachable? sharia moment

Posted on August 17, 2010
Frank Gaffney writing at Townhall: "What else have we learned so far from Mr. Obama's teachable shariah moment? We now know that the President is willing to associate with members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), not just in Cairo - where he insisted they be invited to hear his famous paean to Islam last year - but in the White House...

Generic Congressional ballot: Republican 48%, Democrat 36%

Posted on August 17, 2010
Rasmussen: "A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely Voters would vote for their district's Republican congressional candidate, while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. Support for Republicans is up two points from the previous week, while support for Democrats dropped three points...

Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America

Posted on August 17, 2010
Thomas Sowell writing at Townhall: "The Constitution was not only a challenge to the despotic governments of its time, it has been a continuing challenge-- to this day-- to all those who think that ordinary people should be ruled by their betters . . ...

Sikhs dispute Texas ruling on temple

Posted on August 17, 2010
Wall Street Journal: "A Texas appellate-court ruling that a newly built Sikh temple near Austin must be razed or moved has sparked an international outcry from members of the religious group, some of whom claim discrimination is at the heart of the case...

Dennis Prager: Same-sex ?marriage? and the insignificance of men and women

Posted on August 17, 2010
Dennis Prager writing at Townhall: "Men and women as distinct entities no longer have significance. Which is exactly what the cultural left and the gay rights movement advocate -- even though the vast majority of Americans who support same-sex marriage do not realize that this is what they are supporting ...

Christian student disrupts Muslim worship at Nigerian University

Posted on August 17, 2010
Religion Clause: "A Christian law student at Nigeria's University of Ibadan has created a campus furor by intruding on a Muslim worship service shouting that those in attendance should accept Jesus. Next reports that the incident occurred last Friday, the first Friday of Ramadan, at a Jumat service led by the university's Chief Imam...

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