Religion & Law

Court rejects challenge by donors and diocese to plans for sale of Catholic high school

Posted on August 17, 2010
California Catholic Daily: "Attorneys for the Diocese of Sacramento and seven donors to the now defunct Loretto High School are mulling whether to appeal an unfavorable ruling in a dispute over $7.75 million the sisters of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary received when they sold the campus last year ...

The ecstasy of empire

Posted on August 17, 2010
Paul Craig Roberts writing at InfoWars.com: "Here is what can be done. The wars, which benefit no one but the military-security complex and Israel?s territorial expansion, can be immediately ended. This would reduce the US budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars per year...

Israel has ?8 days? to hit Iran nuclear site: John Bolton

Posted on August 17, 2010
Yahoo News (AFP): "Israel has 'eight days' to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility and stop Tehran from acquiring a functioning atomic plant, a former US envoy to the UN has said. Iran is to bring online its first nuclear power reactor, built with Russia's help, on August 21, when a shipment of nuclear fuel will be loaded into the plant's core...

Islam and America: The President?s fictitious history

Posted on August 17, 2010
"It is thus worth observing in conclusion that President Obama?s claims about the historical relationship between Islam and America seem intended to settle preemptively a question that ought to be debated in the open: is Islam compatible with the free institutions to which Americans are accustomed and to whose preservation Americans should be committed?"

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?Gay marriage? back on hold during appeal on Proposition 8 decision

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Desert Sun: "'I think the basic notion that this case is not final until it's gone through the complete appellate process really prevailed,' said [Douglas Napier], a lawyer with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal firm. 'Rather than have this kind of ping-pong effect of having the decision overturned, appealed and then overturned again, it's better to have this kind of decision,' he said...

Ground Zero mosque on the move?

Posted on August 17, 2010
CBS New York: "CBS 2?s Marcia Kramer has learned it looks as if the developers of the mosque may be willing to budge and move away from the Park 51 location where they originally planned the construction . . . New York Gov. David Paterson plans to meet with developers of the controversial ground zero mosque as early as this week to offer them state land ? at another location ? for their cultural and religious center...

Court: Religious NC college can?t have police

Posted on August 17, 2010
"A prestigious North Carolina private college cannot have police officers with the power to arrest suspects and enforce state law because the school is a religious institution, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday."

ACLU and coalition urges Holder to adopt standards aimed at eradicating prison rape

Posted on August 17, 2010
ACLU: "The American Civil Liberties Union and a broad coalition of religious, political, human rights and civil rights groups today called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to immediately adopt a set of proposed standards aimed at eradicating sexual assault in the nation's prisons...

On eve of federal hearing, Pemberton changes tune on its violation of religious freedom

Posted on August 17, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "Amid mounting pressure surrounding its controversial zoning code, the Borough of Pemberton conceded yesterday that the Apostolic Church of Deliverance (ACD) can worship at 207 Hanover Street. This switch in position comes on the eve of a federal hearing and two weeks after the Borough's Planning Board denied the church's use application even though it was aware of the church's federal rights...

SCOTUS Blog commentary: 2nd Prop. 8 case expedited

Posted on August 17, 2010
SCOTUSblog: "The Ninth Circuit Court on Tuesday morning ordered an expedited review of a second appeal on California?s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage ? a plea by local officials in Imperial County, Calif., to enter the case in order to defend the ballot measure?s constitutionality...

Kansas panel orders admonishment for former aide to Phill Kline

Posted on August 17, 2010
Kansas City Star: "A disciplinary panel today ordered a former deputy to Phill Kline to be admonished for not correcting misleading information submitted to the Kansas Supreme Court during Kline?s abortion investigation."

Mexico City mayor demands cardinal apologize

Posted on August 17, 2010
Associated Press: "Mexico City's leftist mayor said Tuesday he will take legal action if a Roman Catholic cardinal doesn't apologize for suggesting he bribed the Supreme Court to uphold a city law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples."

US conservative Christians fear for rights

Posted on August 17, 2010
Christian Today: "The conservative and religious communities are fighting for the right to vote on the issue of same-sex marriage ? rather than allowing legislature or the courts to rule on the issue. At the same time, they are also trying to defend their religious liberties...

Daniel Blomberg on The Schilling Show: Recurring questions in the Cal. marriage litigation

Posted on August 17, 2010
ADF attorney Daniel Blomberg appeared on the Rob Schilling Show to discuss the Cal. marriage litigation. | MP3 10:08 mins | Among others, the broadcast includes discussion of the following recurring questions. 1. Should the state get out of the marriage business? 2...

Doug Napier on the Hugh Hewitt Show: Cal. marriage litigation update (recorded yesterday)

Posted on August 17, 2010
ADF attorney Doug Napier appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show yesterday to provide an update on the 9th Circuit stay. | MP3 7:28 mins

Glenn Beck ? material boy

Posted on August 17, 2010
Joseph Farah writing at WorldNetDaily: "Glenn Beck may hate socialism and communism, but he showed he shares a materialistic worldview with Marx, Engels and Saul Alinksy in a recent conversation with Bill O'Reilly . . . Beck doesn't care about one of the most blatant and despicable examples of judicial tyranny in the history of our country...

Why conservatives are abandoning the ?gay? issue

Posted on August 17, 2010
WorldNetDaily: "Very simply, most people in today's America, including conservatives, are afraid of 'the gay issue.' Although most know deep down there's something wrong with homosexuality, they don't want to be called 'intolerant,' 'bigoted,' 'hateful' or 'homophobic...

Groups on both sides of abortion debate boost their support for dueling female candidates

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Hill: "The pro-abortion rights group EMILY's List launched an Internet campaign on Tuesday aimed at creating support for the 32 female candidates it is endorsing for state and federal office this year. The campaign, called 'Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me,' aims to counter former Alaska Gov...

Somalia?s Christians plead for prayers during Ramadan

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Christian Post: "Somalia?s underground Christian community is asking fellow believers worldwide to pray for their safety during Islam?s holy month of Ramadan. The tiny Christian population is regularly persecuted by Islamic extremists. They are requesting that fellow Christians pray they can live in peace with their Muslim neighbors...

Europe?s distress in relation to its Muslim immigrants

Posted on August 17, 2010
New York Times: "After years of these societies passively or haphazardly accommodating immigrants from Islamic countries and black Africa, a reversed core notion now insists that the newcomers? behavior must accommodate the majority?s. The politics surrounding the change can run from shrill to populistic...

Andalusia, Spain: More than 70 conscientious objectors to abortion law in Jaén province

Posted on August 17, 2010
Jaen Journal [Google translation]: "Jaén province, Andalusia [has the second highest number] of conscientious objectors [to performing an abortion]. More than seventy professionals are a part of this record that has the College of Physicians. The figure is expected to grow...

Leading national religious land use attorney Daniel P. Dalton earns $600,000 verdict in precedent-setting case

Posted on August 17, 2010
ChristianNewsWire: "The Paeth vs. Worth Township verdict is the largest procedural due process and First Amendment retaliation case in the history of the federal courts within the Eastern District of Michigan and one of the largest such verdicts rendered to date nationwide ...

Argentina: Legislature discusses draft law on non-punishable abortions

Posted on August 17, 2010
Ciudad 1 [Google translation]: "The Health Commission of the Legislature [will debate on] Tuesday a bill for comprehensive care of abortions [that] are not punishable in the health system of Buenos Aires."

UN representatives meet with Argentina over abortion, maternal mortalities

Posted on August 17, 2010
La Gaceta [Google translation]: "Representatives of the United Nations (UN) met last week with officials from the Ministry of Health [to] raise concerns about the high rate of maternal mortality in Argentina and [to] support the implementation of [a] guide to address issues of legal abortions...

University of Buenos Aires professors reject ruling in favor of abortion

Posted on August 17, 2010
AICA [Google translation]: "An important group of professors from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) rejected the ruling of the Superior Council of Aug. 11 for a change in national legislation within the meaning of the decriminalization of abortion and in favor of course right to abortion legal, safe and free...

Spain: Political party to observe implementation of new abortion law

Posted on August 17, 2010
ABC [Google translation]: "The Secretary for Equality Policies of the PSM, Carmen Toledano, said today that his party 'is being vigilant' with the Community of Madrid in the development of the implementation of the Health Law Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy...

GA: Adult entertainment rules may get tougher in Gainesville

Posted on August 17, 2010
Gainesville Times: "The new ordinance, presented at a city council meeting this morning, would require The Top of Gainesville ? or any future adult entertainment business ? to apply for a new license should the adult dancing establishment have any changes in ownership or partners...

Wes Vernon: How to short-circuit the ruling class

Posted on August 16, 2010
Wes Vernon writing at Renew America: "In an interview with this column, Dr. Codevilla makes it clear that ? no, he does not merely wring his hands at the very problem of 'America's Ruling Class', he has ideas on how to put our 'betters' in their place...

Cure for maternal deaths ? abortion

Posted on August 16, 2010
OneNewsNow: "The African Union has bowed to pressure to promote abortion as a way to deal with maternal deaths . . . Joseph Meaney, director of international coordination for Human Life International (HLI), tells OneNewsNow why the issue should be inspected more deeply...

Conservative Christians: It won?t stop at same-sex ?marriage?

Posted on August 16, 2010
The Christian Post: "The conservative and religious communities are fighting for the right to vote on the issue of same-sex marriage ? rather than allowing legislature or the courts to rule on the issue. At the same time, they are also trying to defend their religious liberties...

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