Religion & Law

God and country are banned in Washington

Posted on August 11, 2010
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal | Mr. Conservative: "On 25 June a group of high school students stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and spontaneously began to sing our National Anthem . . . Last month students were stopped from praying on the steps of the United States Supreme Court building ...

Pro-lifers appeal to Gov. Christie to intervene on behalf of ?Choose Life? plates

Posted on August 11, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "The Children First Foundation (CFF) has appealed to pro-life Governor Chris Christie to intervene to get the 'Choose Life' license plate approved by the state of New Jersey . . . In May of 2004, attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal group, filed suit on grounds of a violation of the First Amendment through "viewpoint discrimination," or the unfair censorship of speech because of its content, not because of its type...

Likely voters support ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?

Posted on August 11, 2010
Baptist Press: "Nearly 50 percent of likely voters back the military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy on open homosexual military service, according to a new poll that conflicts with other surveys showing far lower support . . . [Daniel Blomberg], an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, said he was encouraged by the poll's results...

A pro-life woman for the Senate

Posted on August 11, 2010
Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Colorado Senate candidate Jane Norton at The Corner: "I?ve been impressed with what I?ve seen of Jane Norton ? and her husband, who does pro bono work for the good people at the Alliance Defense Fund ? and I hope she pulls off a win today...

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Louisiana College announces new law school to be located in Shreveport Louisiana College announces new law school to be located in Shreveport

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Daily You: "The Louisiana College Board of Trustees has voted unanimously to name Shreveport attorney, J. Michael Johnson, Esq., as the Founding Dean of its law school. Mr. Johnson is a nationally recognized constitutional law attorney who most recently served as Senior Legal Counsel, Allied Attorney Coach and national media spokesman for the Alliance Defense Fund...

Michael Medved: ?Gay Marriage Myths and Truth?

Posted on August 11, 2010
"The decision by federal judge Vaughan Walker to invalidate California?s Proposition 8 both recycles and revives some of the tired, misleading clichés regarding the same sex marriage controversy. These distortions demand direct, concise correction and rebuttal...

ADF continues fight to stop ?two hours of free speech per week? policy at SLU

Posted on August 11, 2010
Court struck down unconstitutional fee scheme but allowed Southeastern La. Univ. to maintain other problematic regulations

The pro-life cause will win despite the agenda-driven judiciary of Washington elites

Posted on August 11, 2010
"Why then, do we bother? . . . We bother because, in the end, we will win . . . "

Dutch euthanasia cases up 13 per cent last year

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Globe and Mail: "The number of reported Dutch cases of euthanasia or assisted suicide rose 13 percent last year, the government said on Wednesday . . . That represented about 2 per cent of all Dutch deaths last year, based on figures from Statistics Netherlands...

Memorial cross exposes Poland?s religious divide

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Independent: "A cross honouring the victims of the plane crash that killed the late Polish president Lech Kaczynski has provoked thousands of protesters to take to the streets to demand its removal . . . Official attempts to move the cross to a church have led to violent clashes between police and Catholic pro-cross demonstrators and mass counter-protests by youthful secularists who insist the emblem must go...

Israel: Troops arrest Jews who tried to pray at Jericho mosque

Posted on August 11, 2010
AFP: "Israeli troops arrested and evacuated some 30 Jewish rightwing militants who had illegally entered the West Bank town of Jericho on Tuesday to pray at an ancient synagogue, the army said."

Santa Clara mosque seeks to install minaret

Posted on August 11, 2010
CBS 5: "A preliminary plan to add a minaret to a Santa Clara mosque was approved by the city's Planning Commission. But the owner of a nearby business is appealing the city's decision."

Terrorism charges filed against Indonesian cleric

Posted on August 11, 2010
Associated Press: "Indonesia's best-known radical Islamic cleric was charged Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of death, police said."

In Montana, a fight over separation of church and fairgrounds

Posted on August 11, 2010
Fox News: "Leaders of a Christian organization are convinced a group of atheists were successful in getting annual fellowship services moved from the Missoula County Fair, but church organizers say they?re determined to make the best of their new location...

Christian prisoner entitled to seek monetary damages for violation of his religious rights, says ACLU

Posted on August 11, 2010
ACLU: "The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the right of a prisoner in Texas to seek monetary damages from the state under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) after he was denied access to a prison chapel for religious purposes...

Conservative Congressmen take stand against federal judge?s marriage ruling

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Christian Post: "A group of conservative congressmen and women submitted on Tuesday a resolution stating that the federal judge's decision to strike down California's Proposition 8 is wrong . . . The House resolution was sponsored by Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and backed by Steve King (R-Iowa) and John Fleming (R-La...

FEC sued for not explaining decisions

Posted on August 11, 2010
Blog of LegalTimes: "Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) charges that the FEC has demonstrated a pattern and practice in the last two years of dismissing complaints because the Republican and Democratic commissioners divide 3-3, particularly in controversial cases...

CA: Superintendent defends Christian school?s decision to fire on basis of faith

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Christian Post: "The superintendent of a Christian school in California that recently fired 11 employees over their religious beliefs says staff there are employed based upon her school?s decades-old statement of faith. 'This (the school?s statement of faith) is the basis upon which we teach Bible in the classroom, and in weekly chapels, and upon which we employ staff here at Crossroads,' noted Beth Frobisher, Superintendent of Schools at Crossroad Christian Schools in Corona, Calif...

MN: Duluth planning commission recommends strip club restrictions

Posted on August 11, 2010
Duluth News Tribune: "The commission voted unanimously to recommend changes to the city code brought by City Councilor Sharla Gardner in June. Under the amendment, no strip club or adult bookstore could open within 2,000 feet of a residential zone, church, school, public park, pedestrian place or other adult entertainment business...

San Francisco unions sue over Proposition B

Posted on August 11, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle: "San Francisco's largest city labor unions filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to strip a measure from the November ballot that would overhaul their pension and health care benefits."

London: Council worker loses case over God remarks

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Christian Post: "A Christian homelessness adviser lost his case against a London council that dismissed him after he mentioned God in the workplace. An employment tribunal ruled that Wandsworth Council had acted reasonably in dismissing Duke Amachree for gross misconduct after he suggested to a client suffering from a terminal illness that she should not give up hope but try putting her faith in God...

IL: Marion mulling Ten Commandments monument

Posted on August 11, 2010
Chicago Tribune: "The southern Illinois city of Marion is considering a resident's request to put a Ten Commandments monument in the city square, and opposition is already beginning to line up . . . [Mayor Bob Butler] says the American Civil Liberties Union already has threatened to sue the city if the project goes forward, but Butler insists he's not intimidated by that...

Irish Planned Parenthood affiliate receives as much as 55 % of funding from taxpayer

Posted on August 11, 2010
LifeSiteNews: "Documents published by the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), an abortionist organisation affiliated with International Planned Parenthood, show that the group may receive as much as 55 per cent of its funding from the Irish taxpayer, in a country with an officially pro-life constitution...

Why no one under 30 answers your voicemail

Posted on August 11, 2010
DiversityInc: "This is the first time in American history that four different generations are working side-by-side in the workplace, bringing their own values, goals and communication approaches to the workplace. What's the biggest difference between Generation Y (born between 1980 and 2000) and baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964)? And how do those in Generation X/millennials (born between 1965 and 1979) fit in?"

World Council of Churches to host Muslim-Christian dialogue

Posted on August 11, 2010
The Christian Post: "The head of the WCC?s International Affairs and Public Witness, Mathews George Chunakara, told New Delhi-based Christian Today that Christian and Muslim leaders are expected to gather this coming November in Geneva, Switzerland, to address key issues in the present context of Muslim-Christian relations...

Choosing to deceive one?s self about abortion

Posted on August 11, 2010
Judie Brown writing at Renew America: "There is a growing body of evidence that, clinically, abortion has serious consequences. It is further becoming obvious that abortion has ingrained in the culture an attitude toward others that invites all manner of violence...

WA: Court prohibits release of referendum petitions; will consider harassment exception

Posted on August 11, 2010
"Today, a federal judge entered an order preventing Washington from releasing the names and addresses of individuals that signed a referendum petition to repeal Washington?s ?everything but marriage? domestic partnership law."

Sex, marriage and upper class obligation

Posted on August 11, 2010
Ross Douthat writing at his New York Times blog: "[F]or what it?s worth, here's what I would ask of America's highly-educated mass upper class (more than top third of America than the 'upper half,' I think): A kind of noblesse oblige on some issues related to sex, at least; on others, a moral reckoning with the cost of the new equilibrium they've achieved; and on still others, a willingness to translate some of the more conservative habits they've embraced (or partially embraced) in their personal lives into law and public policy ...

Muslim groups in CT worried at anti-Islam protesters

Posted on August 11, 2010
Thaindian News: "In Connecticut the Muslim leaders have asked for police protection as the holy month of Ramzan has started. They were scared by the threat issued by a group. They were confronted by a protester group on Friday and after that they are worried about worshiping without obstruction...

Half of Democrats favor punishing soldiers who oppose homosexuality, survey finds

Posted on August 11, 2010
CNSNews: "A nationwide survey of 1,000 likely voters found that 59 percent of Democrats think that members of Congress should consider the opinions of homosexual advocacy groups over the opinions of top military commanders when considering a repeal of the law prohibiting homosexuality in the military...

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